Trey Wingo grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended Baylor University, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He completed his graduation with a bachelor's degree in communications from Baylor University in 1985. Wingo first began his career at NBC's "News at Sunrise" in New York City. After giving a great performance at NBC, he was offered by various televisions thus Wingo had also worked for WMGC-TV, KSDK-TV, WICZ-TV, and WFMZ-TV as a sports director. After a long journey of his career, Wingo is currently working as the co-host of ESPN's Sports Centre and NFL Live.

Trey Wingo is currently at the age of 53. Regarding his ethnicity and nationality, Wingo is a white American television personality. He got married to his wife Janice Parmelee with whom Wingo has a son named Chappy Wingo together. Trey Wingo earns most of his salary from his hosting career, which adds up to his current net worth of $ 700 thousand as of 2017.