Pat Gostele joined WIFR as the weekend sports anchor in January of 2007 and was promoted to Sports Director in May of 2007. Pat won a 2010 INBA Silver Dome Award for "Best Sportscaster" in a medium TV market.
Pat is a graduate of Northern Illinois University where he received a B.A. in Communications and minored in Journalism. During his senior year he was named NIU Broadcast Reporter of the Year and received an Illinois News Broadcasters Association award for Sports Reporting. Pat also worked as a correspondent on the NIU sports magazine show ?Inside Huskie Sports? that appeared on Comcast SportsNet Chicago produced by NIU Media Services.
He has also lent his voice as the public address announcer for NIU Women?s Basketball. Pat previously interned in the sports department here at WIFR and at WFLD in Chicago.
Pat is a native of West Dundee, IL and attended St. Edward High School in Elgin. Pat was a member of the first ever 10-year old little league state championship team in Illinois. Although "The Deer" has lost a step or two, he still enjoys playing sports as much he can. You can often find him running, working out at Peak, or attempting to keep his ball in the fairway at the many golf courses in town.
Pat?s favorite teams are the Cubs, Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and Huskies. His all-time favorite player is Ryne Sandberg. (Pat has over 150 of his baseball cards)
The top events Pat?s covered since he started working here:
1. IceHogs winning the 2007 Colonial Cup Title in their final year in the UHL.
2. Playing with and against some of his boyhood idols in the Cubs/White Sox Legends game at Road Ranger Stadium. Pat also forgets to leave out the fact that he almost injured White Sox shortstop Greg Pryor while attempting to catch a pop up.
3. Following Rockford native Brad Benjamin at the 2010 Masters Tournament in Augusta, GA.
4. Covering the Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup run in 2010.
5. Attending the historic 2011 NFC Championship between the Bears and Packers. Unfortunately. it was a long trip back to Rockford with weekend sports anchor, Zach James (Packer Fan).
Pat made his television debut in 1992 in a commercial for the Kumon Math Program (the commercial only aired in Japan), he has an unhealthy obsession with 90s dance music, he would like the show, Rock and Roll Jeopardy to return, and often wonders if putting his hair in cornrows for his high school graduation was a good idea.
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