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CARRIE

Awarding winning TV Host & Journalist, podcaster,and media personality.

BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW…

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After her first 2 years of college, Carrie took a gap year and backpacked through Southeast Asia. After her travels, she went back and finished her degree.

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Carrie has lived in 9 different US states - Wisconsin, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Florida, Alabama, Arizona, North Carolina, and Missouri.

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Carrie is an avid reader, and on average reads approximately 50 books per year. Her two favorite books are The Great Gatsby and The Alchemist.

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Throughout high school, Carrie earned 11 varsity letters and spent her summers riding horses. She is a former four-time grand champion barrel racer.

Back to the beginning…

Carrie got her start in media in 2010 as a news intern for WDLB/WOSQ radio in Marshfield, Wisconsin. After several weeks of her incessant talking about the Green Bay Packers defensive schemes, and what the Yankees needed to do to win another World Series in the next 3 years, her boss asked her if she wanted to help in the sports department. She said, yes please.

She quickly became a regular doing color-commentating and sideline reporting for local high school football, basketball, and baseball.

From there, Carrie pursued sports broadcasting further, working in baseball as a Game Host for the Eau Claire Express (college summer league) and the Pawtucket Red Sox (AAA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, now the Worcester Red Sox ).

In early 2014, Carrie landed an internship in the sports department with WISN 12 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This put her on the sidelines covering some of the biggest sports teams in the state of Wisconsin including the Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks, Marquette Golden Eagles, and the Wisconsin Badgers; and had her rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest names in the sports world including Derek Jeter, Robin Yount, Aaron Rodgers, and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

In 2016, Carrie made the shift to freelance work, hosting lifestyle content and morning shows so she could have the flexibility to travel with her husband, professional baseball player, Casey Gillaspie.

During this time she was a regular show host for OnFocus News, and a morning show contributor on WCCB News Rising in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In 2020, she moved to Kansas City, Missouri and took a position as the game host and digital reporter for the Kansas City Monarchs.

In 2021, she took a role as the Digital Host and Reporter for the Kansas City Royals. She hosted the team’s official podcast, wrote, produced, and hosted segments and shows for the teams digital and social platforms, and even interviewed her favorite Hollywood celeb, Paul Rudd.

In early 2024, Carrie became one of the co-hosts of the lifestyle show, Great Day KC on FOX4 in Kansas City, Missouri.

PERSONAL

Carrie is the proud parent to three fur children, a 1 year old Chinese Shar Pei/Pit Bull Mix named Doogie, a 9 year old blind Chinese Shar Pei whom she rescued, named Lyla, and a 7 year old, once feral cat turned couch potato named Cedric. She is passionate about animal welfare advocacy, organ donation, and fostering the next generation of powerful women leaving their mark in the media industry.

POP QUIZ

  • Like every born and raised Midwestern, I’m a beach girl! In college I visited Bali, Indonesia and fell in love with the island. When my meditations tell me to go to my happy place in my mind - that’s where I go!

  • As a child of the 90’s and as Kevin McCallister once said, “I’m 10 years old, TV is my life”

    My childhood is 100% Boy Meets World. I grew up with Cory, Shawn, and Topanga, and have watched this show forwards and backwards thousands of times. The last episode still makes me cry!

    As an adult, I am a Friends junkie through and through.

  • Honestly, I don’t have many, BUT I do not understand people who litter, and people who don’t pick up their dog’s poop (which is basically the same thing as littering! Can you tell I’m a clean person?!)

  • Waiting until the light comes on to put gas in my car, telling the same joke 1,486 times, and remembering someone’s dogs name but forgetting their name. (But is that last one really toxic? I would argue not really.)

  • Chilling out max and relaxing all cool!

    (Told you I loved TV as a kid)

    But for real, my weekends are for recharging! I want to sleep in, go to a yoga class, take my dog on a leisurely walk, read a book, take a nap, watch the Real Housewives, and be in bed by 10pm.