Wayne Larrivee, Radio Voice of the Green Bay Packers

Concordia is pleased to welcome this prestigious speaker for this year's Executive on Campus event. Hosted by Concordia's Sport and Hospitality Business department, Executive on Campus annually brings industry leaders to campus to share their insights with students in the Sport and Entertainment Business (SEB) and Hospitality and Event Management (HEM) programs.

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--ABOUT THE SPEAKER--

Wayne Larrivee, who grew up as a fan of the Packers in his native Lee, Mass., enters his 42nd consecutive year broadcasting NFL games, having joined Green Bay’s broadcast team after 14 seasons as the radio voice of the Chicago Bears (1985-98) on WGN and WMAQ Radio in Chicago. Earlier, he had done play-by-play of Kansas City Chiefs games for seven years (1978-84) on KCMO Radio in Kansas City.Known for his thorough preparation and his moderated, yet enthusiastic, call of the action, Larrivee’s more recent credits also include play-by-play for Big Ten Conference football and basketball for the BigTen Network and NCAA basketball for Westwood One.

Highly decorated, the 64-year-old Larrivee was named Illinois Sportscaster of the Year in 1997 and is a seven-time winner of the Silver Dome Award, presented by the Illinois Broadcasters Association, for best radio football play-by-play. He is also a four-time winner of a Midwest Emmy for Chicago Bulls basketball play-by-play. In May 2011, he was honored as Communicator of the Year by the Wisconsin Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

He has called two Super Bowl victories; the Bears’ in Super Bowl XX and the Packers’ in Super Bowl XLV.

Larrivee also has done play-by-play of Chicago Bulls basketball on WGN-TV from 1991-2008, Chicago Cubs baseball, University of Iowa football, Quad Cities (Iowa) Angels minor league baseball, University of Missouri basketball and Kansas City Kings basketball games. He called Big 10 football and basketball games for ESPN Plus.

In his spare time, Larrivee voices the Badger Mutual Insurance Sports Minute in Wisconsin and several other states. In addition, he voices the Badger Mutual Insurance "In the Tunnel" for Green Bay Packers games.

A 1977 graduate of Emerson College in Boston, he received the school’s Alumni Achievement Award in June 2005 and was inducted into the Emerson College Hall of Fame in June 2018. In 2012, the college appointed him to its alumni association board of directors.