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Betty Caywood
An American sportscaster who was one of the
first female Major League Baseball broadcasters,
providing color commentary on radio broadcasts
for the Kansas City Athletics in September 1964. -
Jane Chastain
The first woman sportscaster on the local and
national level in the United States. In 1967, she became the first female on a National Baseball League playing field and currently a conservative political writer. -
Suzyn Waldman
She is the third woman in Major League
Baseball history to serve as a full-time color
commentator on a regular basis. -
Donna De Varona
An American athlete and sportscaster who, after
a record-breaking amateur career as a swimmer,
established herself as an advocate for women’s
and girls’ sports opportunities. She became one of the youngest and one of the first women sportscasters for a national network. -
Phyllis George
She was one of the first women to have a nationally prominent role in television sports coverage. Worked for CBS and n 1974 became a sportscaster. In 1975 she joined NFL today, co-hosting live pregame shows before NFL games. -
Gayle Gardner
She is considered a pioneer in sports broadcasting, she became the first female sports anchor to appear weekly on a major network. She served as an anchor for SportsCenter for 3 years. -
Jayne Kennedy
Replaced Phyllis George on The NFL Today in 1978, becoming the first African-American female to host a network sports television broadcast. In 1970 she became the first black Miss Ohio. -
Lesley Visser
She is the first female NFL analyst on TV, and
the only sportscaster in history (male or female)
who has worked on Final Four, NBA Finals, World
Series, Triple Crown, Monday Night Football, the
Olympics, the Super Bowl, the World Figure
Skating Championships and the U.S. Open
network broadcasts. -
Gayle Sierens
She became the first female sportscaster in the Bay Area became the first woman to do play-by-play for an NFL regular season football game. In 1984, Sierens was honored with a Florida Emmy Award for sports reporting and in 199 she won her second Emmy for news reporting. -
Andrea Joyce
She's an American sportscaster who worked for NBC Sports and CBS Sports. -
Robin Roberts
She is an American television broadcaster who started as a sportscaster and is now the anchor of ABC's Good Morning America. She was a sports anchor on Espn for 15 years. -
Hannah Storm
She became the first woman in American television history to act as a solo host of a network's sports package when she hosted NBC Major League Baseball games from 1994 to 2000. -
Doris Burke
Doris Burke is an American sports announcer and analyst for NBA on ESPN and NBA on ABC games. The first female commentator to call a New York Knicks game on radio and television. -
Cassie Campbell
Cassie Campbell, a former Canadian female hockey player, started her career as a sportscaster with Hockey Night in Canada. Campbell the first woman to provide color commentary for Hockey Night in Canada. -
Maria Taylor
Maria Taylor is an analyst and host for ESPN and the SEC Network. She covers college football, college volleyball, and college men's and women's basketball. She also a cast member for college gameday.
