21 Facts About Danielle Trotta

Danielle Trotta was born on March 13,1981 and is an American journalist who covers auto racing for Sirius XM.

Danielle Trotta was the co-host of NASCAR Race Hub, and the pre-race show NASCAR RaceDay for Xfinity Series events on Fox Sports 1.

Danielle Trotta moved to Fox Sports in July 2010 where she has covered NASCAR and the NFL.

Danielle Trotta was born and raised in Westchester County, New York.

Danielle Trotta is the daughter of Phyllis and high school girls' basketball coach Dan Trotta, and has one younger sister, Andrea.

Danielle Trotta's family moved to Richmond, Indiana, when Trotta was ten years old, and at the age of 13 before she started high school, moved to Carmel for business reasons.

Danielle Trotta, who was inspired to go into broadcasting after watching an NBA on NBC pre-game broadcast by Bob Costas and Hannah Storm, started her career in television while she attended Carmel High School by working for the school's 24-hour local channel as a host and presenter between 1995 and 1999.

Danielle Trotta took part in three consecutive statewide championships in swimming, diving and springboard diving.

Danielle Trotta enrolled in four colleges along the East Coast before she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a degree in Mass Journalism in 2005.

Danielle Trotta started as a photographer, and later convinced the station's management to allow herself to be shown on television.

Danielle Trotta moved to the station's sports department in August 2006; Danielle Trotta stated her favourite stories were those about high school athletes who overcame challenges on the playing field and in the local community.

Danielle Trotta remained with WBTV until 2010, when she moved to Fox Sports's Speed in July after being offered a three-year contract to work as a reporter on NASCAR Race Hub.

Danielle Trotta co-presented the ACC Network's pregame and half time show, The ACC Blizz, alongside football coach Tommy Bowden in 2011, and wrote football columns for local newspaper Charlotte Weekly.

Danielle Trotta was a weekly contributor on NASCAR and ACC Football on Charlotte-based talk radio station ESPN 730.

Danielle Trotta was mentored by fellow Fox Sports employee Steve Byrnes.

In 2012, Danielle Trotta moved into a co-host role, and presented Speed's coverage of that year's NASCAR Sprint Awards Ceremony from Las Vegas.

Danielle Trotta hosted various specials devoted to NASCAR, along with Supercross and MotoGP events throughout 2014.

Since 2015, Danielle Trotta has been the host of NASCAR RaceDay for Xfinity Series races, and in the same year, made her debut as a sideline reporter for coverage of the game between the Arizona Cardinals and Cleveland Browns on Fox NFL.

On February 13,2017, Danielle Trotta tweeted that she would be leaving NASCAR Race Hub to pursue other opportunities.

Danielle Trotta told The Charlotte Observer in 2022 that she left Fox Sports because she did not want to be typecast as a "the NASCAR girl".

Danielle Trotta is married to former NASCAR Busch Series stock car driver Robby Benton.