Chris Clark (sports reporter)

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Chris Clark is a sports reporter for Catch 47, a regional sports network in Tampa Bay, Florida. He formerly worked for WTOC-TV of Savannah, Georgia.

He won numerous Associated Press awards, an Emmy, and an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2005 for his stories on high school football players. He won another pair of Emmy's in 2007, one for Best Sports Reporter.

Before WTOC, Clark was the sports director for WBOY, NBC 12 in Clarksburg, WV. He presided over the remaking of the station's Friday Night Football show and guided the department to eight AP awards. In 2002 and 2003, the WBOY sports team swept the AP's, winning everything in the sports category. Prior to that, Clark was sports director at the now defunct Cable News 21 in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Clark grew up in Fort Washington, Maryland and graduated from Friendly High School. He attended Wingate University for two years and completed his undergraduate education at Bowie State University, graduating with a bachelor's of science in 1998.