Due North Host

Alexa Score

Alexa Score grew up in Spicer, MN where her love of the outdoors began. Watersports, hunting, and fishing are among her interests with a special interest for everything and anything active and outdoors. 

Alexa is a professional wakeboarder and spent several years traveling the world to compete and represent various brands. She is still active ambassador in the watersports community. 

Throughout her on-screen career, she has worked for the Travel Channel, ESPN, MTV, PBS, SyFy, CW Twin Cities and the Minnesota Vikings. Score is a cancer survivor, and has been living with Leukemia for over 17 years. She uses her platform to raise awareness for cancer research and support.

Find Alexa on Instagram @alexascore.

Travis Frank

Travis Frank is the lead producer and co-host of Due North Outdoors. Travis is an outdoor fanatic that loves hunting and fishing in North America’s wildest places. He strives to tell great stories and keep adventures fresh for all outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy.

Travis Frank has worked in the outdoor world for nearly 20 years. At age 16 he started a fishing business, guiding clients from all over the country. Driven by a passion to share stories from the outdoors, Travis joined the Ron Schara Productions team in the spring of 2008. He loves sharing stories from the outdoors as much as he does living in it. His outdoor passions began early in life and his pursuits continue to grow today. Travis Frank enjoys teaching about hunting, fishing, conservation & life outdoors to generations young and old.

In addition to his role on Due North Outdoors, Travis also hosts the television shows, The Flush, and Rooster Tales and contributes as a regular report on Minnesota Bound. Travis appears as a regular host and guest for outdoor radio shows on WCCO and KFAN Outdoors. His outdoor photography has been showcased in many national publications, along with freelance articles written to grow the sport of fishing and hunting.

When he’s not chasing a trophy fish, a wild bird, or a great story, he soaks up as much time as possible with his wife, Sarah, his four kids and his bird dog, Daisy.

Due North field reporters

Laura Schara

Laura Schara’s versatile experience as a television host brings a special energy to the outdoor world.  Her outdoor TV career began in 2000 when she created and hosted the segment “Wild in the City” on NBC’s Minnesota Bound, where she explored unique things to do in the outdoors right in the metro area of Minneapolis/St. Paul.

She has since hosted numerous television projects including nationally televised Destination Polaris on Bally Sports Network, Golden Moose Awards for the Outdoor Channel, Minnesota Bound on NBC, North American Fisherman, and North American Hunter on NBC Sports, FLW Outdoors, and ATV Sports TV on NBC Sports.

Laura currently appears weekly on Bally Sports Network’s Due North Outdoors and nationally televised Destination Polaris. She also currently hosts MN Bound’s “Wild in the Kitchen” segments on NBC, where she creates delicious easy wild game recipes.

Laura’s passion for the outdoors was passed onto her from her outdoor enthusiast father, Ron Schara, who taught her all the lessons that needed to be learned to be a successful hunter and angler. Her best catch to date is a 46” Muskie caught on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota.  She is also an avid sporting clays shooter.

Bill Sherck

Telling outdoor stories comes naturally to Bill Sherck.  Television viewers know him better as “The Man About The Woods”;  A six-time Emmy Award-winning outdoor reporter and show host.  Bill’s earned just about every award in the business for his unique style of storytelling.
    
Viewers can catch Bill’s work on several of the country’s most popular outdoors television programs including, “The Flush” on Outdoor Channel,  “Due North Outdoors”, “Rooster Tales” and “Backroads” on Bally Sports Networks and “Minnesota Bound”, seen on NBC affiliates throughout Minnesota.

Sherck enjoys sharing his stories with conservation groups, teaching as part of fishing and hunting seminars, and also fishes/guides for various charity and celebrity tournaments.
    
Born in Mississauga, Ontario, Bill’s family eventually moved to Minnesota where his father and grandfather taught him to fish and hunt.  After graduation from St. Norbert College in 1994, Bill went to work in the television business.  He reported local news throughout the Midwest and eventually Fox News.  In 2001, Bill turned his focus to outdoor television. He’s been at it ever since!

Ron Schara

As a writer and television personality, Ron Schara has been sharing the great outdoor experience with readers and viewers for over four decades. He’s a story teller who often relays the wonders of nature through the lives of others. Over the seasons, Ron’s stories have been enjoyed by millions of outdoor enthusiasts who share Ron’s passion for the outdoor lifestyle.

Ron’s soft spoken but direct delivery and appealing on-camera image have made him a popular resource as an all-purpose, outdoor/naturalist commentator.  

Ron’s knowledge and understanding of our natural surroundings is more than just a journalist’s assignment. Born in Postville, Iowa, he grew up loving the outdoors in northeast Iowa’s rugged bluff country. He graduated with degrees in journalism and fish/wildlife biology from Iowa State in 1966 and he has never veered from his ambition.  

Whether writing a newspaper story, talking with his radio and television audience, or appearing before a live audience, Ron Schara likes to use colorful storytelling to create an experience for his audience. The results speak for themselves, as Ron’s full service television production company has won hundreds of awards including a dozen regional Emmy Awards.