Jessica Mendoza played from 1999 to 2002 at Stanford and was a member of the United States women's national softball team from 2004 to 2010.
43 Facts About Jessica Mendoza
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Jessica Mendoza won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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Jessica Mendoza played professionally in National Pro Fastpitch and was named 2011 Player of the Year and currently ranks in the top 10 for career batting average and slugging percentage.
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Jessica Mendoza was an analyst on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball from 2016 to 2019.
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Jessica Mendoza was dropped from the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast after the 2019 season but remains an ESPN baseball analyst.
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Jessica Mendoza was named by fans and experts to the Greatest College Softball Team as an outfielder, one of only three to achieve the honor.
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Jessica Mendoza was a member of the high school basketball team and was the team MVP in her junior and senior years.
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Jessica Mendoza began her career as a 1999 First Team All-American and All-Pac-10 honoree.
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Jessica Mendoza broke the Cardinal records for season batting average and RBI totals while ranking top-10 for her hits.
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On March 6,1999, in defeating Illinois State, Jessica Mendoza had a single-game career high four hits off pitchers Corey Harris, Tammy Millian and Jamie Bagnall.
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Jessica Mendoza added conference Player of the Year to her collection and broke her own record for batting average with a then-school and career-best.
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Jessica Mendoza claimed new records for hits, home runs, doubles, slugging, and stolen bases, which still rank top 10 for a season at Stanford.
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From February 29 through March 22,2000, Jessica Mendoza went on a school-record 19-consecutive-game hit streak.
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Jessica Mendoza continued her success for the Cardinal with her third All-American and All-Pac-10 citations.
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Jessica Mendoza posted top-10 season records in virtually every category, still currently ranking second in single-season home runs and stolen bases.
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Jessica Mendoza helped lead Stanford to their first-ever Women's College World Series appearance in 2001.
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Jessica Mendoza currently holds career records in average, hits, home runs, slugging, and runs.
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Jessica Mendoza was named Pac-10 Player of the Week three times, a top 25 finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, and the Speedline Invitational Tournament MVP.
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Jessica Mendoza graduated from Stanford with a master's degree in social sciences and education.
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In 2004, Jessica Mendoza was a starting outfielder for Team USA at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
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In 2008, Jessica Mendoza was again an outfielder for Team USA and led in almost every category on the "Bound 4 Beijing" Tour.
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Jessica Mendoza won the silver medal at both the World Cup and Japan Cup.
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Jessica Mendoza declined an invitation to play for the US in 2011 to focus on National Pro Fastpitch.
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Jessica Mendoza joined the National Pro Fastpitch in 2005 with the Arizona Heat.
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Jessica Mendoza works for ESPN and was a color analyst on Sunday Night Baseball telecasts.
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Jessica Mendoza is an analyst for the Women's College World Series and has worked as a sideline reporter for ESPN College Football coverage.
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On June 30,2014, Jessica Mendoza began working on ESPN's Baseball Tonight.
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Jessica Mendoza appeared on the Monday editions of the show.
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On June 16,2015, Jessica Mendoza became the first female broadcaster in the booth for ESPN's College World Series coverage with Karl Ravech and Kyle Peterson.
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John Kruk, Dan Shulman and Jessica Mendoza called the 2015 American League Wild Card Game on October 6, and Jessica Mendoza became the first female commentator in MLB postseason TV history.
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On January 13,2016, ESPN announced that Jessica Mendoza would join the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast team full-time, with Shulman and Aaron Boone.
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On October 6,2017, Jessica Mendoza commentated for the 2017 NLDS, her first MLB post-season series, on ESPN Radio with broadcast partner Dave Flemming.
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On March 5,2019, the New York Mets announced that Jessica Mendoza joined the club as a senior advisor to general manager Brodie Van Wagenen.
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Jessica Mendoza later backtracked and took to Twitter to clarify her comments.
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In October 2020, Jessica Mendoza became the first female World Series analyst on any national broadcast platform; she was on ESPN's radio platform.
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In March 2022, it was announced that Jessica Mendoza would join the Spectrum SportsNet LA network to provide commentary for Los Angeles Dodgers games.
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Jessica Mendoza was a part of a group of network additions that included Eric Karros, Adrian Gonzalez, Jose Mota, and Dontrelle Willis.
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The daughter of Karen and Gil Jessica Mendoza, Jessica Mendoza has one brother and two sisters.
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Jessica Mendoza's father played football for four years for Fresno State University.
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Jessica Mendoza is married to Adam Burks, with whom she has two sons.
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Jessica Mendoza is a second-generation Mexican-American, as stated in an ESPN article by Aimee Crawford published on October 11,2011.
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Jessica Mendoza is a trustee and past president of the Women's Sports Foundation.
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Jessica Mendoza is an athletic ambassador for Team Darfur and board member of the National Education Association.