TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas State High School Activities Association (KSHSAA) is pleased to announce the selection of Cole Reif and Chris Duderstadt as the 2018 Oscar Stauffer Award recipients. Reif, Great Bend, has been dubbed the Sportscaster of the Year and Duderstadt, Lawrence, as the Sportswriter of the Year.

Presented annually by the KSHSAA, the Oscar Stauffer Awards recognize excellence in the fields of sportscasting and sports writing. A special committee representing the Kansas Association of Broadcasters selects the honoree for the Sportscaster of the Year.

Sportscaster of the Year award winner, Reif, is the sports director of KHOK-FM, Eagle Communications in Great Bend.  Raised in the community, Cole Reif graduated from Great Bend High School and completed his Bachelor’s degree at Fort Hays State University. While at Fort Hays, Reif announced football and basketball games for the university’s television station and assisted Eagle Radio in broadcasting Hays High School and Thomas More Prep-Marian football games.

Reif started working for Eagle Radio in Hays full time as the play-by-play announcer for the 101.9 “The Bull” Area Game of the Week after graduating from Fort Hays State.  He spent one year calling games for the Monarchs of Thomas More Prep-Marian.  Reif then worked for WBBB in Raleigh, North Carolina as a producer and board operator.  After a year, he moved back to Kansas to take the Sports Director position at Eagle Radio in Great Bend.  Reif has spent the past four years announcing football games for Hoisington High School while also broadcasting basketball games for Barton Community College.  In addition, Reif is the co-host of Sports Day, a weekly sports show on 1590 KVGB that discusses sports in Central Kansas.

Reif and his wife Regan have a son, Fitz, born last November.