Soren grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas graduating from ShawneeMission East high school. After high school, he attended theNewhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University earning him a BS in Broadcast Journalism.

Soren began his broadcasting career by helping launch Kansas City’s first full time sports radio station, 1510 KCTE in 1994.
He started as aside-kick/producer for Pete Enich in 1994 and moved to up to a co-hostrole the following year.

Next Petro moved to Las Vegas in 1996 to work nationally for the Sports Fan Radio Network. He was heard from coast to coast on over 200 stations like WEEI in Boston and KNBR in SanFrancisco. In 1999, Soren headed back to Kansas City as the afternoon host at KMBZ, where he spent the next four years hosting sports-talkshows, anchoring the Royals Pre and Post Game, as well as Pre and PostGame for Kansas University basketball.

In 2004 Petro made the move to Sports Radio 810 WHB. He anchored themidday time slot until July 2019 when he moved his very popular show to afternoon drive. Soren handled the Royals Pre and Post Game Show from2004 to 2007 and has anchored WHB’s Chiefs Pre Game show since 2010.

Petro was the winner of the prestigious Joe McGuff Kansas City Sports Journalist of the Year award in 2009. As the host of “The Program” on Sports Radio 810, Petro is widely regarded as the most knowledge able person in the Kansas City media.

A nine-time Pro Bowler and certain first-ballot Hall of Famer, Kurtis is also anaccomplished fabricator. In fact he has never played any professional sport. Hediscovered sports later than most – age nine – but was quickly swept up in it, readingany sports book he could get his hands on. That often came in the form of record andstat books, dooming him to the geekdom from which he has never fully recovered.

His first job as a talker was as the PA announcer for Raytown and Raytown South basketball and Raytown South football. During his 14-year stint at the two schools, he saw a number of great players and great teams. He had a front row seat for Jevon Crudup’s unbeaten and nationally ranked Cardinals of 1990 as well as Tyronn Lue’s 1995 Blue Jays that went 27-1.His broadcasting career began quite by accident. At age 30, he ran into an old highschool friend who knew someone who ran a small station in Liberty. It was then, in the spring of 1996, that he began doing a weekend sports talk show on KCXL 1140AM. Kurtis and fellow mimic Jeremy Wood formed an on-air partnership that spanned five years and four stations.

Their unique brand of comedy and sportsknowledge helped them move from KCXL to 1510 KCTE in the fall of 1997. After abrief stint doing comedy bits for 99.7 KY they began a short-lived Saturday morning show on the station. In January of 1999, they launched Sunday Sports Talk on 980 KMBZ. In the fall of 1999, Kurtis began running the board for KMBZ’s “Fortune and Petro”afternoon show. He worked at KMBZ for nearly five years before joining SportsRadio 810 WHB the day of the Royals’ 2004 season opener. Since then he has broadened his broadcasting broadness, working on Royals pregame and postgame shows before settling in as the check down pass to the running back in The Program’s comedy game plan.

During Chiefs’ season, Kurtis produces Sports Radio 810 WHB’s wildly successful Pregame Show.
He is a graduate of Raytown High School and never stops attempting to wedge Tyronn Lue’s name into any and all conversations, as this bio clearly proves.