NC State Women's Basketball Radio

WKNC 88.1 FM - FLAGSHIP STATION is your home in the triangle for Wolfpack Women's basketball. Join Patrick Kinas and former Wolfpack player Paige Woodard as they make the play by play calls live from courtside on 88.1 FM.

Patrick Kinas - Women's Basketball Play-by-Play

Patrick Kinas enters his 12th season as the play-by-play voice of the NC State Wolfpack women's team, and just completed his 20th season broadcasting minor league baseball, including his first for the Durham Bulls, the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays.

Kinas began his pro career in Clinton, Iowa, as the broadcaster for the Clinton LumberKings in 1993, before moving to the Kane County (IL) Cougars in suburban Chicago in 1997-98. Kinas moved to the Carolina Mudcats just before the start of the 1999 season, then was hired by the Bulls in January, 2012.  Kinas also handles the national play-by-play call of the East West Shrine Game, played at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL.  Additionally, he calls the North Carolina High School Game of the Week on Time Warner Cable, along with calling various sports for the ACC Digital Network, East Carolina University, the Big South and is the men's backup broadcaster at NC State.

In 2001, Kinas coordinated Mudcats For America, a fundraiser which raised over $5,000 for the September 11th Fund. Kinas raised the funds by setting a Guinness World Record for marathon bowling, lasting 34 hours and 23 minutes at Buffalo Lanes in Cary, NC.

Kinas has also done various television work for Comcast Sports South and SportsChannel Chicago, and held internships at WGN-AM, Chicago, WSCR-AM, Chicago and WAND-TV, Decatur, IL.

Kinas grew up in Pontiac, IL, earning a Communication/Business Administration degree from Millikin University in Decatur, IL, then picked up his Master's Degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL in 1994.

While at Millikin, Kinas became the winningest tennis player in both singles and doubles in school history, earning MVP honors while playing at the #1 singles and doubles position. Kinas graduated from Pontiac Township High School in 1988, where he was student body president, Homecoming King and the school's #1 varsity tennis player all four seasons, earning three MVP awards.

Kinas lives in Raleigh where his is still a highly active tennis player.

Paige Woodard - Women's Basketball Color Analyst

Paige Woodard begins her first season as a graduate assistant with the women's basketball staff for the 2012-13 season, and will also serve as the analyst on all Wolfpack radio broadcasts alongside play-by-play man Patrick Kinas.

Woodard currently assists with the day-to-day operations of the basketball office, coordinates the scout team efforts and assists with women's basketball community service projects.

The Raleigh, N.C., native is an NC State graduate who played parts of two seasons for the Wolfpack during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons. She also ran cross country and track and field at State during the 2010-11 campaign.

Woodard was a Wolfpack team manager during the 2009-10 season that saw the program make the NCAA Tournament.

She graduated with a degree in education in 2011.

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