Cotten Named North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year
1/30/2018 12:00:00 AM | General
By Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@DemonDeacons)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Stan Cotten, Wake Forest's radio play by play announcer on the Wake Forest IMG Sports Network for 22 years, has won his four Sportscaster of the Year Award from the National Sports Media Association. NSMA Executive Director Dave Goren made the announcement.
Cotten will be honored at the 59th annual NMSA Awards Week, June 23-25, 2018 in Winston-Salem.
Cotten is in his 22nd year as the Voice of the Deacs and his 38th year in broadcasting. He teams with Lary Sorensen on Wake Forest football and baseball broadcasts and Mark Freidinger on basketball broadcasts.
Cotten is also the host of the weekly "Dave Clawson Show" and "Danny Manning Show" which air weekly in-season on the Wake Forest IMG Sports Network and online at WakeForestSports.com. His sports column, "100% Cotten," appears in Gold Rush, the official newspaper for Wake Forest athletics.
Cotten is a Knoxville, Tenn., native and a graduate of the University of Tennessee. He got his start in broadcasting while in college serving as Sports Director of WIVK-FM in Knoxville, the flagship station of the Vol Network, and for three years he was also the weeknight sports anchor for WTVK/WKXT-TV in his hometown. Cotten is a three-time Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters Association award winner.
Prior to coming to Winston-Salem he held down play-by-play stints at Carson-Newman University and Marshall University. He described the Eagles' action for twelve seasons and was on the mic while C-N was winning five national titles. Cotten moved to Huntington, W.Va., in 1992 and described the Thundering Herd's run to the I-AA national championship.
Stan joined IMG and moved to North Carolina in 1996 with his wife, Patti, and daughters Annie and Jessie.