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Lisa Salters

Lisa Salters
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Salters in November 2009
Born Alisia Salters
(1966-03-06) March 6, 1966 (age 51)
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education Penn State
Occupation Sportscaster, Sports anchor
Notable credit(s) E:60, Monday Night Football, NBA on ABC, Outside the Lines, World News Tonight, Good Morning America

Alisia "Lisa" Salters is an American journalist and former collegiate women's basketball player. She has been a reporter for ESPN and ESPN on ABC since 2000. Previously, she covered the O.J. Simpson murder case for ABC and worked as a reporter at WBAL-TV in Baltimore from 1988 to 1995.

Salters has reported worldwide for ESPN, including a series of reports from the Middle East prior to the Iraq War. In addition, she has hosted ESPN's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics from Turin, Italy, and ESPN's coverage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Currently, she is a sideline reporter for ABC's coverage of the NBA and ESPN's Monday Night Football.

Salters joined ESPN as a general assignment reporter in March 2000. She currently serves as sideline reporter for Monday Night Football and the lead sideline reporter for ESPN’s coverage of the NBA on ABC. In addition, Salters is one of the featured correspondents on ESPN’s newsmagazine show, E:60, which debuted October 2007. In 2008, she was nominated for a Sports Emmy Award for the story "Ray Of Hope".

At ESPN, Salters’ reports have been regularly featured on the award-winning “Outside the Lines” series. She led the network’s comprehensive coverage of the murder conspiracy trial of Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth in December 2000 through January 2001. 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. 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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