Marty Snider

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Marty Snider (born July 15, 1969) is an American Sportscaster. Snider is a pit reporter for NASCAR on TNT. He has been a part of Turner Sports' NASCAR coverage since 1998. Snider also served as a NASCAR pit reporter for NBC Sports from 1999-2006, until NBC lost the NASCAR television rights. Snider still works for NBC Sports, covering the NFL for NBC's pre-game show, Football Night in America, hosted by Bob Costas and Keith Oberman. In 2008, Snider joins the NBC Olympic team in Beijing, China for their coverage. Snider will serve as the reporter for a unit called "flash team," who travels across the country to several different Olympic venues. Snider also serves as a side line reporter for other NBC football coverage as well as several other NBC Sports events, including pit reporting for CORR, Championship Off Road Racing as well reporting for the PBR, the US Army All-American Bowl, the Baja 1000 and the North American International Auto Show. In 2007, Snider also joined the TNT NBA team where he continues to serve as a sideline reporter during the regular season and playoffs. He also serves as a NASCAR Insider for NASCAR.com and is the public speaker for Coca-Cola's NASCAR program as well as the NASCAR program for FedEx.

In addition to his on-air duties, Snider has owned MS&A (Marty Snider & Associates) since 1994. MS&A serves as a video production company for several of the top race teams and sponsors in NASCAR racing as well as Fortune 500 companies world wide. MS&A counts Joe Gibbs Racing, Hendrick Motorsports, and Yates Racing among their long time NASCAR clients. They also provide video production for The Coca-Cola Company, Exxon/Mobil, Ford, Oreo, FedEx, Procter & Gamble, IAMS Pet Food, Tissot Watch Brand, Toyota and M&M's just to name a few. Several of MS&A's key annual projects include providing video production for all of Coca-Cola's Final Four events, NASCAR projects and LeBron James Sprite and Coca-Cola commercials. MS&A also provided video production for the launching and announcement of the FedEx Cup golf program for FedEx. MS&A has four full time employess and is based in Charlotte, NC.

[edit] On-Air Career

Snider worked as a sports reporter for WYFF, the NBC affiliate in Greenville, S.C. from 1993-94 and WGHP in High Point, N.C. from 1991-93. He began working for WGHP as an intern and was hired as a sports reporter and was actually on the air while he was finishing his senior year of college.

From 1994-1997, he worked as a reporter and associate producer for ESPN's "NASCAR Today."

Snider was CNNSI's NASCAR reporter from 1998-2002, filing regular reports from every NASCAR event. From 1995-2000, Snider worked as a pit reporter for the Motor Racing Network's (MRN) NASCAR radio broadcasts.

Since 2004 Snider has appeared each Tuesday on WFNZ in Charlotte on the "Mac Attack" with Chris Mcclain. He is often maligned for his stance on the Duke/North Carolina rivalry in which he roots for both teams. He is also a regular on the nationally syndicated Mancow radio show.

[edit] Personal

Snider was raised in High Point, NC. were at the age of 10 he was introduced to racing by his cousin and occasional Sprint Cup Series driver Jay Hedgcock. He remembers hanging out in the garage with Hedgcock, Jeff Burton, Kyle Petty and Phil Parsons. "I would hang out in the garage, hand them wrenches and generally just get in the way," Snider said. "I remember hanging around from the time I was 10 to the time I was about fifteen years old. I would follow those guys around to all the races I could -- I think that's when I really fell in love with racing."

Snider earned a degree in political science from the University of North Carolina -- Charlotte. While at the University of North Carolina -- Charlotte Snider helped to found the local Charlotte chapter of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, in the largest and quickest chartering in Delta Sigma Phi's over 100 year history. Snider served as the chapter's Founding President and was re-elected to a second term as President in his junior year. The Charlotte chapter of Delta Sigma Phi has been recognized several times as chapter of the year within the Delta Sigma Phi organization, receiving the national fraternity's highest honor. Currently Snider is head of the Charlotte Area Alumni Board for Delta Sigma Phi. Snider continues to give back to the University of North Carolina -- Charlotte as well where he has recently been selected to serve on the advisory board of the university's motorsports engineering program.

Snider is also actively involved in his church, Lake Forest Church where he and his wife Andrea were founding members. Snider helped spearhead the capital campaign to raise funds to build LFC's first building.

Snider still resides in Charlotte, N.C. with his wife Andrea who is a native of Phoenix, AZ and their three children.

Sources: NBCSports.com, TNT.tv, NASCAR.com, Sirius.com, DeltaSigmaPhi.com