Holly Rowe has made a name for herself and is one of the most well-known sports journalists today. She has been working for ESPN since 1998 and has the unique ability to move gracefully between sports and roles, integrating her work as a play-by-play broadcaster.
Rowe is one tough cookie; in 2016, she covered both the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments just one month after cancer surgery. Under how blouse, she had plastic tubes stitched into her incision to drain fluid. That’s an MVP right there!
Shannon Spake
Most will recognize Shannon Spake for her contribution to Fox Sports, where she is in charge of all anchor duties for the"NASCAR Cup Series" - as well as "NASCAR Series" races and pre-race shows. Spake was also a college basketball and football reporter for Fox Sports.
In the past, she worked for ESPN, where she worked on SportsCenter and contributed as a sideline reporter for SEC on ESPN basketball. In 2017, Shannon got the unique experience of voicing Shanon Spokes in Pixar's "Cars 3!"
Melissa Stark
Melissa Stark is a television personality and sportscaster; you may recognize her from her three-year term as a sideline reporter for "Monday Night Football." Melissa began her career as a news intern working on the assignment desk at WMAR-TV in Baltimore way back in 1991.
She moved up and became a news intern for "CBS Evening News," where she wrote scripts and put together background information on investigative pieces for the network's health correspondent, Dr. Bob Arnot. Currently, she works as a reporter for the NFL Network.
Jayne Kennedy
This sports broadcaster is also an actress and a model. She has appeared in television and movies, winning an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in the film “Body and Soul.”
She got into sports news before women were generally invited. In fact, in 1978, she was the first female network correspondent on sports programming when she joined CBS’s “NFL Today.” Kennedy won an Emmy Award in 1978 for her work reporting at the 1977 Rose Bowl Parade.
Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant became a correspondent for ESPN and Fox Sports World to cover international soccer. She got her foot in the door in sports broadcasting as a sports personality with the Buffalo Bills organization on the Empire Sports Network.
As a sideline correspondent for international soccer, she was noticed by Fox and won a co-hosting position on “NFL Under the Helmet.”