Ali Lucia - Anchor/Producer
alucia@fox47kxlt.com
Ali Lucia joins the Fox 47 News Team from the Twin Cities. She moved to Minnesota from Colorado when she was 15 years old. Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, she is used to the Minnesota cold!

Ali joins us from FSN North where she first started as an intern, but then was hired after college to be a Production Assistant and Sideline/Feature Reporter. Ali is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a double major in Broadcast Journalism and Communications Studies. During college she worked in the Gopher Football and Basketball Offices. Ali is an avid sports fan. She has covered everything from the Minnesota Twins to the New England Patriots, and the Minnesota State High School Tournaments. She fell in love with television during her internship with the WCCO-TV Sports Team. She started her position as anchor of FOX 47 News just in time to wish everyone a Happy 2008!

In her spare time Ali enjoys: running, playing volleyball, spending weekends up north at the family cabin, dancing, catching a Minnesota sporting event (especially the Gophers), and also has a love for the potters wheel.

Currently Ali volunteers for Children Cancer Research Fund and Highland Friendship Club, but is anxious to get involved with the local community here in Rochester.

Randy Brock - Chief Meteorologist
brock@fox47kxlt.com
I never had a run-in with a tornado as a child, but for some reason have always had a weird fascination with the weather. Growing up in Litchfield, Minnesota, just 7 miles from Darwin (home of the worlds largest ball of twine), gave me an opportunity to see all sorts of exciting weather…except tornadoes.

After high school, I left home and went to college at Metropolitan State College of Denver for a degree in meteorology. Laughing at the idea of ever being one of those TV weather guys, I got my degree with a minor in mathematics and planned on being a pilot. Make sense? Of course not. I found that I enjoyed talking about weather more than deriving Newton’s Laws of thermodynamics, and in my senior year got an internship in the weather department at the NBC station in Denver.

From there I went to KFDA in Amarillo, Texas for a few years where I finally had the chance to see a few tornadoes and learn the ropes of TV. My wife Julie and I moved back home to Minnesota in 2002 and love life with our two kids, Drew and Owen, and large dog Duncan in southeast Rochester. When I’m not changing diapers or fishing the spring creeks of southeast Minnesota, I’m forecasting and talking about the weather. All of this (even the diapers) is an honor and a privilege, and I’m glad that I can bring you the forecast every Monday through Friday evening here at FOX 47.

Hey teachers! Drop me an email and we can schedule a time to visit your classroom to talk about the weather.

Crystal Oko - Anchor/Producer/Reporter
coko@kttc.com
Crystal comes to FOX 47 from Woodbury, Minnesota. She moved there in the third grade from Bolingbrook, Illinois.

Crystal graduated from the University of Minnesota, Morris where she double majored in Mass Communications and History. She started at KTTC as a morning producer in May 2007 and is excited to anchor the FOX 47 News on Sundays.

During her years in college she enjoyed being a member of the UMM Dance Team, playing on many intramural sports teams, being crowned Miss Midwest, and running for Miss Minnesota America in 2005. She also wrote feature stories for the University of Minnesota, Morris University Relations.

In her spare time Crystal enjoys working out, going out to dinner, hanging out with her friends, boyfriend and family and going to movies.

C.J. Spang - Sports Guy
cspang@kttc.com
C.J. Spang brings a lifelong love of sports with him to FOX 47. C.J. went to high school in Winona and starred in baseball, still sharing a State record for having the most at-bats in a single inning (3). After graduating from high school, C.J. went on to the University of Minnesota where he majored in broadcast journalism. He previously worked as a sports reporter for the Winona Daily News. C.J. also covered sports as a freelancer with ESPN and as an intern with Fox Sports Net North.

C.J. says he's especially pleased to be delivering sports to his immediate family which still resides in the area. "It's really great that both sets of my grandparents get to see me, their grandson, on TV. It's a real thrill for them," says Spang.

Adam Holst - Assignment Editor
aholst@kttc.com
Adam was born and raised in Kasson, MN and has lived in this area all his life. He went to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in communication studies. In college he worked at The Houston County News as a reporter and writer. He enjoys the fast paced environment of the newsroom.

He met is lovely wife Kimberly while performing in a play as part of the Mantorville Melodramas. They became proud parents of Elliot Yong Holst in November of 2004. Elliot keeps them both busy with her antics and hobbies (playing, eating, & playing while eating).

Adam coaches the Kasson Mantorville boys varsity soccer team in the fall and enjoys playing soccer and hockey when he can find time.

E-mail story ideas to Adam or give him a call in our newsroom at 507.280.5132.