16 Facts About Lisa Salters

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Lisa Salters is an American journalist and former college basketball player.

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Lisa Salters's has been a reporter for ESPN and ESPN on ABC since 2000.

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Lisa Salters has reported worldwide for ESPN, including a series of reports from the Middle East prior to the Iraq War.

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Lisa Salters's is a sideline reporter and co-producer for ABC's coverage of the NBA and ESPN's Monday Night Football.

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Lisa Salters was first a broadcast journalist prior to becoming a sportscaster.

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Lisa Salters joined ESPN as a general assignment reporter in March 2000.

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Lisa Salters's serves as sideline reporter and co-producer for Monday Night Football and the lead sideline reporter for ESPN's coverage of the NBA on ABC.

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At ESPN, Lisa Salters' reports have been regularly featured on the award-winning “Outside the Lines” series.

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Lisa Salters's led the network's comprehensive coverage of the murder conspiracy trial of Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth in December 2000 through January 2001.

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Additionally, Salters was ESPN's reporter at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan, where she broke the news on the U S National Team's starting lineup a day before its first match in against Portugal.

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Lisa Salters reported from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and hosted ESPN's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics Games in Torino, Italy.

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Lisa Salters returned to her role as its secondary sideline reporter the following year as Tafoya returned to her old role.

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Lisa Salters's returned to the war zone in 2004 when ESPN took SportsCenter on the road and broadcast live from Camp Arifjan, a U S Army base in Kuwait.

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In 2012, ESPN announced that Lisa Salters would join Monday Night Football replacing Suzy Kolber as a full-time solo sideline reporter joining Mike Tirico and Jon Gruden.

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Lisa Salters is a graduate of Upper Merion Area High School in King of Prussia, where she is a member of the school's Hall of Fame.

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Lisa Salters is a cousin of former University of Pittsburgh and Dallas Cowboys star running back Tony Dorsett.

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