Joe Schmit is an award-winning broadcaster, community leader, and popular keynote speaker. He has covered every major sporting event in the past three decades. He has won fifteen Emmys from the National Television Academy and a National Headliner Award. Joe is also a regular on 1500ESPN radio. Before joining KSTP–TV in Minneapolis–St. Paul in 1985, he was sports director for WBAY–TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His career also includes positions for KCRG–TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and WKBT–TV in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Joe is a longtime youth mentor committed to advocating for community organizations. He is a past president and board member of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Twin Cities and a past president and board member of the Fairway Foundation. Joe is also a member of the PACER Advisory Board and the Minnesota Vikings Advisory Board. He and his wife, Laura, are currently chairing a $7 million capital campaign for VEAP, the largest food shelf in Minnesota. Joe earned his degree in mass communications from University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
