Biographie de Lesley Visser
Lesley Visser is the most highly acclaimed female sportscaster of all time. She is the first and only woman in the Pro Football Hall of Fame ; the only female sportscaster to have carried the Olympic Torch ; the only woman to have presented the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the Super Bowl ; and the first woman on the network broadcasts of the Final Four, Super Bowl, and NBA finals. She was voted the No.
1 Female Sportscaster of All Time by the American Sportscasters Association and was also elected to the National Sports Media Association for her work at the Boston Globe, national magazines, and CBS.com. Visser is the first and only woman to win the Billie Jean King Award for Outstanding Journalist and has been honored as the first woman Lombardi Fellow, named a SportsBusiness Journal "Champion and elected to the Sports Museum of Boston.
Visser has mentored young women for decades, while speaking at colleges and businesses around the world. A sportscaster at CBS for more than 25 years, she also spent nearly 10 years at ABC Sports, where she became the first woman on Monday Night Football while also covering the World Series, World Figure Skating, World Skiing Championships, and the Triple Crown. Visser currently appears on CBS's We Need to Talk, a nationally televised all-female weekly sports show.
She was also recently voted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
