Giant Possibilities: Raising (More Than) an Athlete

Tracy Kornet is a five-time Emmy Award winning writer, host, and news anchor of Channel 4 News at 4, 5, and 6:30pm.

She came to Nashville’s legendary station WSMV-TV from the CBS affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth, where she anchored the city’s first 2-hour prime-time evening newscast and from Phoenix, where she hosted and help create the city’s premiere magazine show. She started her career as a news anchor & host in Lexington, Kentucky.

The wife and mother of three credits her years at Vanderbilt University for her start in television, and for her recent return to Music City. Her youngest son, Luke, is a 7’1” forward who plays for the Vanderbilt Commodores. It’s also where she met her husband Frank, a former Vanderbilt basketball star who went on to play in the NBA and Europe.

Tracy’s favorite assignments include two presidential visits in Nashville; 50th Anniversary coverage of the assassination of JFK in Dallas; and multiple sports championships, including the 2010 & 2011 World Series, 2011 NBA Finals, and the 2011 Super Bowl.

Other professional thrills include co-hosting The View in New York and interviewing Will Ferrell in the Saturday Night Live costume closet.

Tracy was awarded “Best News Anchor” by the Tennessee Associated Press in 2015 and 2016. She is a frequent emcee and speaker at community fundraisers and currently serves as vice-chairman of the board of the Sexual Assault Center of Nashville.

In her free time there is nothing Tracy loves more than cheering on her children. All three play/have played college basketball: Luke at Vanderbilt, Nicole at UCLA and John at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. They are also the frequent subject of her blog.

Tracy is a great lover of the arts and chose Vanderbilt because of its highly regarded Broadway review troupe, The Original Cast. She sang and danced all through college and beyond, spending intermittent semesters working in Japan as Cinderella at Tokyo Disneyland and touring with a Japanese pop star as a backup singer/dancer.

She had a brief musical resurgence as the lead singer of her station band, playing gigs across Dallas, singing the National Anthem at major league baseball games, and performing at festivals and events.