Sarah Spain

Sarah Spain is an espnW.com columnist, ESPN Radio host and SportsCenter Reporter for ESPN.

Early years

Spain was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but raised in Lake Forest, Illinois. Spain attended Cornell University, where she majored in English. Spain was a Heptathlete for the Cornell Big Red track and field team.[1] As a senior in high school, Spain was the MVP and captain of her track and field, field hockey and basketball teams.[2][3]

Career

Before joining ESPN, Spain worked for Fox Sports Net, MouthpieceSports.com, ChicagoNow.com and was the recurring guest-host of WGN's radio show called ChicagoNow Radio.[1] Spain also did some work as a sideline reporter for the Big Ten Network and hosted the Coors Light Fantasy Players Minute. Spain was one of the original co-hosts of the WGN-TV show "Chicago's Best," with Ted Brunson and Brittney Payton.[1] She joined ESPN 1000 in Chicago in 2010 and signed on as a writer for espnW.com in October of the same year. On January 23, 2015, it was announced ESPN was launching a new radio show called Spain & Prim with Spain and anchor Prim Siripipat as the co-hosts.[4] In January 2016 Spain, Jane McManus and Kate Fagan launched a new national ESPN Radio show, "The Trifecta," and Spain launched her own ESPN podcast, "That's What She Said." Spain has appeared on a variety of ESPN television shows, including "His & Hers" (formerly "Numbers Never Lie"), "Olbermann," "Mike & Mike," "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz," "First Take," "The Sports Reporters" and "Outside The Lines." On February 25, 2016, Spain made her first appearance on ESPN's Around the Horn and, like the previous two first-time panelists, made it to Showdown and lost. Like LZ Granderson the month before, the loss came against Jackie MacMullan. In September 2016 Spain inked a new multi-year deal with ESPN and launched the new national ESPN Radio show, "Izzy & Spain,' with co-host Israel Gutierrez. [5]

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