Hannah Storm
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Storm at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
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Hannah Lynn Storen June 13, 1962 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Television journalist, television personality, author, sports anchor |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse(s) | Dan Hicks (1994–present) |
Hannah Storm (born Hannah Lynn Storen; June 13, 1962) is an American television sports journalist, serving as the anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter Face to Face. She was also host of the NBA Countdown pregame show on ABC as part of the network's NBA Sunday game coverage.
Storm was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and is the daughter of sports executive Mike Storen, who was a commissioner of the American Basketball Association, general manager of that league's Indiana Pacers, Kentucky Colonels and Memphis Sounds franchises, and president of the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA. Her mother, Hannah G. Storen, is a successful real estate agent in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Westminster Schools of Atlanta in 1979 and the University of Notre Dame in 1983, with degrees in political science and communications. On January 8, 1994, she married sportscaster Dan Hicks. The couple have three daughters: Riley, Ellery and Hannah. Storm has Irish ancestry and is Catholic.
Storm took her on-air name during her stint as a disc jockey for a hard rock radio station in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the early 1980s. While at Notre Dame, she worked for WNDU-TV, the then-Notre Dame-owned NBC affiliate in South Bend, Indiana. After graduation, she took a job as a disc jockey at KNCN-FM (C-101) in Corpus Christi, Texas. Six months later, she got a job at a Houston rock station KSRR 97 Rock as the drive-time sportscaster. Storm stayed in Houston for four years doing a variety of radio and television jobs, including hosting the Houston Rockets halftime and postgame shows and also hosted Houston Astros postgame shows on television. She worked as a weekend sports anchor on WCNC TV 36 (formerly WRET) in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1988–89. She made the leap to CNN from there.
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