Glenn Mitchell (sports broadcaster)
- Glenn Mitchell (sports broadcaster)
Glenn Mitchell is a sports broadcaster and writer for ABC Radio's Grandstand program in Perth.
He joined ABC Radio Sport in January 1990 with commentaries on Australian rules football and cricket.
At the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, he was cycling commentator for ABC Radio and at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, for cycling and netball. He co-hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.
Mitchell covered the 1996 Paralympic Games for ABC TV, commentating cycling and track and field events, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.
He has covered Australian cricket tours overseas, in Sri Lanka in 1999 and India in 2001, where he commentated alongside Indian commentator Harsha Bhogle. Along with Jim Maxwell, he is one of the core cricket commentators for the ABC.
He has called AFL and WAFL Australian Rules football matches. He has called NBL and WNBL basketball.
Mitchell is executive producer, sport, for ABC Western Australia.
Mitchell has been on the board of the Western Australian Sports Federation and the Coaching Federation of Western Australia. He is a director of the Western Australia Paralympic Committee. He published "Pursuing Excellence", a biography of Western Australia's sportswomen in 1998 [cite book|author=Mitchell, Glenn|title=Pursuing excellence : a biographical history of Western Australia's leading sportswomen|year=1998|publisher=Women's Sport Foundation of Western Australia|id=ISBN 0958542619] .
He was awarded the Australian Sports Medal by the Governor-General of Australia for services to sport in November 2000.
He is married to Grandstand and Hopman Cup host, Karen Tighe, also of ABC.
References
* [http://www.abc.net.au/backyard/presenters/GLENNMITCHELL.htm ABC Bio]
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