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Lisa Salters
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Salters in November 2009
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Alisia Salters
March 6, 1966 |
| Education | Pennsylvania State University (BA) |
| Occupation | Sportscaster, Sports anchor |
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E:60, Monday Night Football, NBA on ABC, Outside the Lines, World News Tonight, Good Morning America |
| Children | 1 |
Alisia "Lisa" Salters (born March 6, 1966) is an American journalist and a former college basketball player. She is well-known as a reporter for ESPN and ESPN on ABC. Lisa joined ESPN in 2000. Before that, she worked as a news reporter for ABC. She also reported for WBAL-TV in Baltimore from 1988 to 1995.
Lisa Salters has reported from many places around the world for ESPN. This includes special reports from the Middle East. She also hosted ESPN's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. She covered the 2002 FIFA World Cup too. Today, Salters is a sideline reporter and co-producer for ABC's NBA games. She also works on ESPN's Monday Night Football.
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Lisa Salters' Career Journey
Lisa Salters started her career as a news journalist. She did not begin in sports reporting. In 1995, she became the first West Coast correspondent for ABC NewsOne. She covered many important news stories. These included major court cases and big events like the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan. She also reported on airplane crashes.
Switching to Sports Reporting
In 2000, ESPN asked Lisa to join their team. They offered her a general reporting job. This was when she decided to move into sports journalism. It was a big change for her career.
Broadcasting Sports News
Lisa Salters joined ESPN in March 2000. She works as a sideline reporter for Monday Night Football. She is also a co-producer for the show. She is the main sideline reporter for ESPN's coverage of the NBA on ABC.
Salters is also a featured reporter on E:60. This is ESPN's newsmagazine show. It started in October 2007. In 2008, she was nominated for a Sports Emmy Award. This was for her story called "Ray Of Hope".
Her reports are often shown on "Outside the Lines." This is an award-winning ESPN series. She led ESPN's coverage of a big sports news story in 2000 and 2001. Lisa was also ESPN's reporter at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. This event took place in South Korea and Japan. She was the first to share the U.S. National Team's starting lineup. This was a day before their first match.
Salters reported from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She also hosted ESPN's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.
Reporting for NBA and Football
In 2006, Salters became the main sideline reporter for ABC's NBA coverage. She worked during the 2006 NBA Finals. She filled in for another reporter who was on leave. The next year, she returned to her role as a secondary sideline reporter. In 2007, she reported for the 2007 NBA Finals on radio. By 2009, she was often the lead sideline reporter for NBA games.
Lisa Salters also covered stories from a war zone. This was before and during the start of the Iraq War. She reported on sports-related news from Qatar. These reports were for shows like Outside the Lines and SportsCenter. She went back to the war zone in 2004. ESPN broadcast SportsCenter live from a U.S. Army base in Kuwait.
In 2007, Lisa was covering a football game. It was the Big 12 Football Championship Game in San Antonio, Texas. During her report, her microphone was accidentally broadcast over the stadium's sound system. Everyone in the stadium could hear her. The camera showed the quarterback, who looked confused. The TV announcer joked that Lisa was talking to more people than she expected. This likely happened because her mic was set up for a halftime contest.
Before joining ESPN, Salters worked for ABC News from 1995 to 2000. She provided news for World News Tonight. She covered many important news events. These included major court cases and airplane crashes.
In 2012, ESPN announced that Lisa Salters would join Monday Night Football. She became the full-time solo sideline reporter. She worked with different announcers over the years. In 2022, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman joined her on Monday Night Football.
Lisa Salters' Personal Life
Lisa Salters was born in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Penn State University in 1988. She earned a degree in broadcast journalism.
She played basketball for the Lady Lions team. She played as a guard from 1986 to 1987. Lisa is the shortest player in the school's history. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall.
Salters graduated from Upper Merion Area High School. This school is in King of Prussia. She is a member of her high school's Hall of Fame. Lisa is also a cousin of Tony Dorsett. He was a famous running back for the University of Pittsburgh and the Dallas Cowboys.
On October 13, 2017, Lisa Salters was honored. She was inducted into the Montgomery County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.
