9 things you didn't know about Greg Warmoth

For 30 years, Greg Warmoth has been a Central Florida mainstay, spending 11 years as the Channel 9 weekend sports anchor before moving to news.

Warmoth is now the co-anchor of Channel 9 Eyewitness News’ 5 and 6 p.m. broadcasts.

He spends a lot of time working with charities like Special Olympics Florida and can be seen regularly taking a jog around Orlando’s Lake Eola.

Here are a few things you may not have known about him:

1. His front two teeth were knocked out while he was playing Junior Hockey in Illinois.

2. He met his wife at an intersection (she was in the car next to him).

3. He went to college to study Soil Science with plans to design and build golf courses.

4. Ran into the program director to the college radio station (Parkland Junior College in Champaign, Illinois) who asked him to try radio news and being a DJ. The experience lead to him switching his major.

5. An avid Lake Eola fan, he has jogged or walked around the downtown lake for nearly 30-years.

6. He appeared as a news reporter in the movie “Armageddon.”

7. He doesn’t own a car and walks to work every day.

8. He will say yes to attending any live concert.

9. The first concert he ever attended was his favorite group of all time: Earth, Wind and Fire.

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