Greg Wrubell

Wrubell was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where he developed an early love for hockey. He excelled at education and was allowed to skip first grade. He attended high school at Lord Beaverbrook High School. Despite his love of sports, Wrubell found he was not a very good player. Instead he attended choir, drama, and public speaking competitions. Wrubell's father, Allan, sparked his interest in sports. Allan was the local public address announcer for the Saskatoon Blades. As a result Greg decided to pursue sports broadcasting in college. Greg applied to many schools and eventually chose BYU. At seventeen years old, Greg's first exposure to BYU sports was the 1984 season opener against Pitt, which he watched with his classmates from the Marriott Center. ==Broadcasting career==

After serving two years as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil, Wrubell returned to BYU in 1987 and met his future wife, Tauna Fehrner, and began an internship at KSL. At the end of the summer, the two married and Wrubell parlayed his internship into weekend work where he became co-host of the KSL weekend sports talk show with Chris Tunis. In 1992, Paul James invited Wrubell to join the BYU Cougars football radio team. Wrubell served as the sideline reporter for football and men's basketball. A heart attack led to James missing a few basketball games during the 1996-97 season, allowing Wrubell to move from the sidelines to play-by-play. Wrubell would become the full-time play-by-play voice for men's basketball during the 1997-98 season and then for football in 2001. He followed that up by being featured nationally on ESPN's SportsCenter and IMG College's best of the week during weeks one and two of the 2015 BYU Cougars football season, following Tanner Mangum's hail-mary victories over Nebraska and Boise State. In 2016, Wrubell left KSL where he had been a producer, reporter, host, and announcer In 2018, Wrubell was hired as the first television broadcaster for Utah Royals FC. ==Personal life==

Greg and Tauna Wrubell live in Cedar Hills, Utah and are the parents of four children. One of their children, Regan, has autism, so Wrubell has participated in many autism-related benefit events. Wrubell testified before the Utah Legislature for autism funding and solicited corporate sponsors to donate to autism-related causes. He has also acted as emcee for benefit auctions for those with autism and at a few BYU award shows. ==References==