Name Kelcey CarlsonAge / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB September 12, 1975. As of 2024, she is around 49 years old.Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Partner / Boyfriend Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.Wiki Bio / Profile BackgroundIntroduction :
Kelcey Carlson is the evening news anchor for KMSP Fox 9, a Fox-owned TV channel licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving the Twin Cities television market.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Kelcey’s birthday falls on September 12, 1975. She grew up in Indiana.
- Kelcey is married to her husband, Dave Kent, who is a radio personality at KOOL 108 radio.
- They have three children together. Her elder two sons are Charlie (born in 2007) and Kellen (born in 2012). Their youngest daughter, Kathryn was born in June 2015.
- Education : She graduated in 1996 from the Indiana University Bloomington with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Political Science, minoring in French.
Career, Salary, Net worth and Awards :
- Kelcey worked as a waitress when she was fresh out of college.
- After doing odd jobs for two years, she finally landed her first journalism job with Freedom Broadcasting (WWMT-TV) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She remained there for five years.
- In July 2003, she joined WRAL-TV as a weekend news anchor. Carlson was a fill-in for Lynda Loveland as the weekday morning news anchor in 2009 when she moved into radio.
- Carlson joined the KMSP Fox 9 news team delivering the evening bulletin in January 2014 after ten years with WRAL.
- Kelcey has received multiple awards for her quality contribution to journalism. She was awarded the 2009 Mid South Emmy for ‘Best Weekend Newscast.’
- She also has an award from the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas (RTDNAC) for her coverage on the Wake County Public School System transportation department fraud case.
- She reveals that her most difficult story covered so far was the bombing at the annual Boston Marathon in 2013. She was a participant in the marathon but was not directly affected by the bomb.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Kelcey is an avid runner & has ran numerous marathons.
- She began running after graduating from university because she couldn’t afford a gym membership.
- In order to stay in shape for her wedding, Kelcey ran her first marathon in Detroit.
- She trains her long runs every weekend with a group of friends with similar interests very early in the morning. She calls them the Vampire Running Club because often run in complete darkness.
- Carlson was the fastest woman to finish the 44th Annual Grandfather Mountain Marathon, which is regarded as one of the hardest marathons in America. Her time was 3 hours and 13 minutes. For this achievement, she was featured on the front cover of Endurance Magazine.
- She is a board member of the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) Minnesota Chapter and was announced as an addition to the PCA executive board in 2016.
- Carlson is also an active swimmer and used to swim instead of running if she didn’t feel good during her pregnancy. Kelcey had run for most of her pregnancy until she was due for all of her pregnancies.
- Her birthday & anniversary dates are only a few days apart!
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