Brett Jensen

Gastonia product Brett Jensen joins the WFNZ family after having spent the previous 15 years as a newspaper reporter and college beat writer for various media outlets. He’s covered just about every major sporting event there is to do and has interviewed countless athletes and coaches to gain their insight. He has covered and attended more than 300 football games, 700 baseball games and over a 1,000 basketball games during his career.

His first full-time job was as a high school sports reporter for the Charlotte Observer. A few years later in 1998, Brett became the lead reporter at the Hickory Daily Record, where he won awards for uncovering a major scandal involving the women’s basketball team at Lenoir-Rhyne, and was the beat writer of the Class-A Hickory Crawdads minor league baseball team.

In 2000, Brett accepted a job with the Anderson Independent-Mail, where he was the University of Georgia and South Carolina beat writer for more than three years. While there, some of the events he covered for the Scripps-Howard News Service included the Final Four, The Masters, Atlanta Braves spring training, the PGA Championship, and NIT Finals.

Brett then took a job covering the Clemson Tigers on a full-time basis in 2004 for CUTigers.com, which is owned by FoxSports.com. He stayed there until moving to Athens, Ga., to cover the Georgia Bulldogs for an ESPN affiliate website. Brett also was the lead college writer for the first five years of the Southern Sports Journal magazine.