Melissa Zoey Stark was born on 1973 and is an American television personality and sportscaster, best known as the current sideline reporter for NBC Sunday Night Football and the former sideline reporter for Monday Night Football.
23 Facts About Melissa Stark
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Melissa Stark previously worked with NBC, primarily at its MSNBC subsidiary and as a correspondent for NBC's The Today Show.
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Melissa Stark was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Walter Melissa Stark, an eye surgeon at the Wilmer Eye Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
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Melissa Stark graduated from the Roland Park Country School, a women's prep school in Baltimore, where she was class valedictorian.
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Melissa Stark was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
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Melissa Stark was a news intern for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather in 1993 and 1994 where she wrote scripts and assembled background information on investigative pieces for health correspondent Bob Arnot.
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From 1994 to 1995, Melissa Stark was a production assistant and reporter with Virginia Sports Marketing in Charlottesville for the University of Virginia's Coach's TV Show, with George Welsh and Jeff Jones.
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Melissa Stark joined ESPN in 1996 as the host of the weekly program Scholastic Sports America, where she traveled across the United States covering high school and college sports focusing on human interest and issue-related stories.
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From 1996 to 2003, Melissa Stark reported for ESPN's SportsCenter, where she served as a regular contributor to Sunday NFL Countdown and the Emmy Award-winning show, Outside the Lines.
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Melissa Stark was the SportsCenter on-site host for the NBA Finals and World Series, and covered national stories including Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, golf, and NCAA basketball for the network.
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Melissa Stark served as a reporter for ABC Sports' coverage of figure skating, the NFL Pro Bowl, and celebrity golf events.
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In July 2003, Melissa Stark joined NBC News as a National Correspondent for The Today Show and would anchor MSNBC Live.
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Melissa Stark covered the Opening Ceremony as well as the swimming and diving events at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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Melissa Stark made her NBC Sports debut in 2004 contributing reports and interviews for the network's coverage of the Triple Crown and other big horse racing events for the network.
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In 2005, Melissa Stark participated as a reporter for NBC's New Year's Eve coverage, hosted by Carson Daly.
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Melissa Stark left MSNBC Live and The Today Show in November 2006.
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Melissa Stark covered the Opening Ceremony and speed skating event during NBC's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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Melissa Stark worked her third Olympic Games for NBC Sports serving as an anchor for MSNBC's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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In 2022, Melissa Stark returned to NBC as the new sideline reporter for Sunday Night Football, replacing Michele Tafoya.
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Melissa Stark covered the Opening Ceremony and replaced Tafoya on swimming events for NBC's coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics, her fourth Olympic Games and first since returning to NBC.
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Melissa Stark has done field work for NFL Network shows NFL Total Access and Around The League Live.
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Melissa Stark hosted the NFL Network gameday show First on the Field and the on-site pre-game show, GameDay Kickoff, later renamed GameDay First, at primetime designations along with Shaun O'Hara, Sterling Sharpe, and Brian Billick for five years beginning in 2012.
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Melissa Stark was the host of the Emmy Award-winning series NFL 360.