Wayne Drehs is a three-time Emmy Award winning sports journalist, who spent 23 years on the features and enterprise team at ESPN, where his stories appeared on ESPN.com, ESPN Magazine as well as ESPN TV’s SportsCenter, E:60 and Outside the Lines as well as Good Morning America, World News Tonight, MSNBC and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

He has reported from more than a dozen countries and 45 states in pursuit of stories that use sports as a vehicle to explore the complexities of life way from the field, be it racial and gender equality, mental health, drug addiction, sexual abuse, wrongful imprisonment or global politics. He has reported from The White House, the Kremlin, the Great Pyramids of Egypt and the beaches of Copacabana. Between enterprise assignments Wayne has covered five Olympic Games, four Super Bowls, the World Cup, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Finals, MLB playoffs, Daytona 500 and Wimbledon. He is a former Knight-Wallace Fellow of Journalism at the University of Michigan and a Distinguished Alumni from the University of Iowa having earned his BA in 2000.