LA-based Stan Sport television presenter Duncan McKenzie-McHarg has died aged 41, according to US police officials.
Per the Los Angeles County coroner’s office, the Australian native died on Wednesday, after falling from the top of a building and landing on a lower roof.
Tributes have begun flowing in on McKenzie-McHarg’s social media, with colleagues and sports fans sharing their grief at the sudden death.
McKenzie-McHarg had been with Stan Sport for over three years, most recently as part of the streamer’s tennis coverage. In August, during the US Open, he conducted courtside interviews with players including the likes of champions Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka, and Aussie star Alex de Minaur.
Before Stan, he was a US Correspondent for Fox Sports Australia, and also held reporter roles at Network 10, Seven and Triple M back home. He got his start at Triple M, telling Radio Today it happened by chance when he met the former Head of Programming Jeff Allis.
“I told him I had a journalism degree and wanted to be a sports reporter. He said ‘Really? Well, I still have some contacts (at Austereo). Would you like me to reach out to a few?’,” he said. “I said ‘Absolutely!’”
In the 2023 interview, he described his Fox Sports gig, which allowed him to pursue his career in the US, as a “dream job”. While he said it was exhilarating and rewarding, yet occasionally lonely, he wouldn’t trade it for anywhere else in the world.
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“I wake up every day in Los Angeles, and 90 per cent of the time, it’s 25 degrees and sunny. I work a lot in shorts and thongs,” he said.