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Craig Mattick Bio

Craig Mattick craig.mattick@bybradio.com

CRAIG MATTICK joined KWSN in 1997 and is a 30-year veteran of radio, a 23-year veteran in the Sioux Falls media, and winner of more broadcasting awards than you can imagine. He is the program director at KWSN and the creator/executive producer of Sports Talk, which hit the airwaves when KWSN became an all-sports format in 2001.

His other two co-hosts were South Dakota sportscasting veterans Mike Henriksen (2001-06) and Bob Laskowski (2006-08). John Gaskins became his third co-host in June of 2008. Craig was honored by the Northwest Broadcast News Association and the South Dakota Associated Press for his 2008 work on both the show and his play-by-play broadcasts. The South Dakota High School Activies Association honored Craig in 2009 with the Distiguished Service Award.

After growing up in Kiester, MN (pop 400, in Southeast MN) and graduating from Brown Institute of Broadcasting in Minneapolis, Craig started in radio in Vermillion in 1979. He moved on to Mankato, where he actually was a TV weatherman for a short time. He has been in Sioux Falls since 1986 as everything from a program director at KTTW-TV to radio DJ to news/talk host to sports talk host. He is the voice of USF women's basketball and calls high school football and basketball for KWSN. For several years, he has called state championships on TV for football, basketball, volleyball and wrestling for South Dakota Public Broadcasting. (Thankfully, they don't show his face much.)

Craig is a 49-year-old man in a midlife crisis, married to the extremely saintly and patient Faith (who he frequently mocks on the show), and father of six tortured children. He is the ruthless and savvy KWSN kickball team coach and a homebody who is active in his church and plays church-league softball. He grew up a lifelong Gophers, Twins, and Vikings fan. His sports views lean on old school. As in, oooold school. SDSU fans think he has an anti-SDSU agenda because he didn't believe SDSU should've have moved to Div. I athletics, and for his frequent use of the phrases "stop drinking your Jackrabbit juice" and "that's why we went Division One!" Craig seems eternally jealous about his co-host's youth and good looks and therefore constantly teases him.

Craig recently underwent surgery on both of his shoulders, from two different incidents over the span of 10 months: Once from a softball injury - running into a brutish first baseman - and once from falling down the stairs after trying to avoid stepping in dog poo. After extensive rehabbing, he is back at the control board on the show, and jabbing with his much younger (and did we mention, much better-looking) co-host.