A Familiar 'Voice' Returns to the Wayland Warriors Family
A new voice from the press box this fall at Wayland High School football games isn't really new at all.
“The Voice” is headed back to Wayland this fall. No, it’s not the television show of spinning chairs and competing singers. Rather, it’s Hank Wilk, the former stadium announcer for Wayland High School football who will return to his chair in the press box this fall after an eight-year hiatus. Wilk taught at Wayland High School from 1975-79 and again from 1992-2003. In the midst of his second term at WHS, the longtime announcer for Wayland athletics retired and Wilk was asked to take over basketball announcing responsibilities in 1999. He decided at that point to tackle the football responsibilities as well. So Wilk took to the booth above the field in the WHS stadium and turned his love of football into something official. At the time, …
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