Lisa Salters Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2009, she won a Gracie Award for best feature from the Association for Women in Radio and Television
• Taught young girls in Rwanda about journalism in 2012 with The Girl Effect initiative
• Played college basketball at Pennsylvania State University from 1986 to 1987
• Started working for ESPN as a general assignment reporter in 2000, but worked her way up to such positions as sideline reporter for "Monday Night Football․"
• While working for ABC News, she covered the O․J․ Simpson civil and criminal trials, the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the 1998 Winter Olymbpics in Nagano, Japan, and the crash of TWA flight 800
• Shortly after the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, she traveled to the country to report on the U17 national women's soccer team
• Has traveled to Korea, Japan, Greece, Italy, Qatar and Kuwait