Terry Gannon

American college athlete and professional sportscaster Terry Gannon has covered a variety of high profile events, from the WNBA to the Olympics, throughout a three-decade plus broadcasting career. Born and raised in Joliet, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Gannon took to sports at a young age. He excelled at Little League baseball and basketball throughout grade school, and by the time he entered high school, Gannon was one of the city's best-known teenage athletes.

Gannon racked up a number of awards throughout the local and state level during high school, thus making him a hot athletic recruit for colleges all across the country. He eventually settled on North Carolina State, where he played for the legendary coach Jim Valvano. Gannon's tenure at North Carolina State was well-remembered when the team defied all odds by winning the 1983 NCAA Championship. Gannon was a driving force behind the team's big win, but after graduating from N.C. State in 1985, he found it difficult to turn his success in college into a professional basketball career.

After a stint playing basketball in Europe, Gannon embarked on a new career as a sportscaster. He began calling college basketball games in the late 1980s, and by the early 90s had expanded his broadcasting expertise into college baseball. With a few years of professional broadcasting experience under his belt, Gannon started branching out to major sporting events in the mid-90s by covering the Tour de France and Little League World Series.

In the 2000s Gannon's diversified his sportscasting experience even more by covering the FIFA World Cup and both the Summer and Winter Olympics. In 2016 Gannon covered the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, which became his fourth consecutive Olympics in which he served as an analyst.

For the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, Gannon was teamed with Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir, to call figure skating live for NBC's daytime broadcasts. Thanks to the trio's success in Sochi, NBC named the three as its lead figure skating broadcast team. Gannon followed this up with another Olympics stint during the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, for which he once again covered figure skating with Lipinski and Weir, as well as ice dancing alongside Tanith White. Gannon was also chosen to co-host the closing ceremonies in PyeongChang, once again alongside Lipinski and Weir.