KNOXVILLE — Stan Cotton, the longtime play-by-play voice of Wake Forest athletics, will be inducted into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame in July.
Cotton, a Farragut High School and University of Tennessee graduate, has been the Voice of the Demon Deacons for 24 years.
He is a three-time Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award winner.
Cotten began his media career while at UT when he served as the sports director at WIVK, a flagship station of the Vol Network.
During that time, he also served as the weekend sports anchor at WTVK/WKXT-TV.
He began his college play-by-play career at Carson-Newman in Jefferson City, Tennessee, and later moved to Huntington, West Virginia, where he worked at Marshall.
As part of his duties in Winston-Salem with the Demon Deacons, he hosts the Dave Clawson Show and the Steve Forbes Show.
Both Clawson and Forbes were assistant coaches at Tennessee and Cotten’s career has spanned more than four decades.
The Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame Induction ceremony will be held virtually on July 21 and telecast on WBXX-TV.