Kate Scott (American sportscaster)

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Kate Scott
Born1983or1984(age 40–41) [1]
Fresno, California, U.S.
Alma mater University of California at Berkeley
Occupation(s) Sports announcer, radio personality
Years active2011–present
Employer NBC Sports Philadelphia [2]
SpouseNicole

Kate Scott is an American sportscaster who is currently the television play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia 76ers. Scott also calls international soccer for Fox Sports [3] and CBS Sports [4] and is the preseason television voice of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks. [5]

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In June 2024, it was announced that Scott would be one of four new commentators—and the first woman—to join the Madden video game franchise. [6] She and broadcast partner Brock Huard are one of three options for commentary teams in Madden NFL 25 . [7]

Scott is the only woman – and one of a select few play-by-play voices regardless of gender – to have called games for the NBA, NFL, NHL, NCAA D1 football, the Olympics, and a FIFA World Cup. [8]

Early life

Scott was born in Fresno, California, and raised in Clovis, California. [9] She graduated from Clovis High School in 2001. She attended UC Berkeley where she majored in communications. As a sophomore, she became the school's first female "Mic Man", leading cheers in the student section for their football and basketball games. [10] [11] She wrote for The Bear Insider magazine, and its ESPN affiliated website. [12] [9] She did an internship with KLLC ("Alice @ 97.3"). [11] She graduated in 2005. [13]

Career

After graduating college, Scott soon joined Metro Networks, where she was a reporter, producer, and anchor, doing traffic, news, and sports updates for a number of Bay Area radio stations [11] [14] including KSFO-AM, KFRC-AM, KCBS-AM, KFOG-FM, and KNBR-AM. [9] During that time, she also did on-screen television reporting for Cal football for CSN California and hosted Cal football's postgame radio show on KGO 810. [9]

She joined KNBR - the San Francisco Giants, San Francisco 49ers, Golden State Warriors, and Stanford football radio flagship - full-time in 2011 where she provided sports updates for their morning and midday shows and filled in as a substitute host. [15] She also served as a television sideline reporter for the San Jose Earthquakes, [12] [16] [13] reported for the San Jose Giants minor league team, [9] called high school football for Comcast, and anchored Saturday night sports for NBC Bay Area. [16] [11]

In August 2016, Scott became the first woman to call an NFL game on the radio. [11] She covered two preseason games for the San Francisco 49ers. [15]

In December 2016, she left KNBR to join the Pac-12 Network full-time to focus on play-by-play. [11] In 2017, she became the first woman to call a football game on the Pac-12 Network. [17] In addition to calling football, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's basketball, softball, and volleyball, Scott also anchored, reported, and hosted the Network's award-winning features program "Our Stories". [18] [16]

For International Women’s Day on March 8, 2020, she was part of the first-ever all-women's broadcast crew for a National Hockey League game in the United States on NBCSN. Scott provided play-by-play alongside Olympic gold medal-winning analysts A.J. Mleczko and Kendall Coyne Schofield. [13] [19] [20] [21]

In October 2020, Scott joined KGMZ-FM (95.7 "The Game") as a co-host of their new morning show. [22] [23] She continued to work with the Pac-12 Network. [16]

In March 2021, Scott became the first woman to call a Golden State Warriors game (and the first to do play-by-play of an NBA game on the radio) as she and sportscasters Mary Murphy, Kerith Burke, and Chiney Ogwumike covered the Warriors game against the Chicago Bulls. [1]

In June 2021, she became the first woman to call men’s Copa América and Gold Cup soccer matches for Fox Sports. The following month Scott provided play-by-play for the majority of the men's and women's basketball games at the 2020 Summer Olympics (held in July 2021) on NBC and its family of networks. [24]

In August 2021, Scott left 95.7 "The Game" and joined analyst Mike Golic as the play-by-play voice for Learfield's newly launched brand "College Football Saturday Night." The duo visited Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma State, Colorado, South Carolina, Texas A&M and many more storied college football programs during their 13-week cross-country adventure to bring listeners a national game of the week. [25] [26]

On September 23, 2021, it was announced that Scott would become the television play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia 76ers, replacing the retiring Marc Zumoff. She became the second woman to do a full-time play-by-play role for a major men's professional sports team, after Lisa Byington for the Milwaukee Bucks. [27] [28]

Personal life

While she was an intern with KLLC, Scott met and later married her wife Nicole in San Francisco. [29] [30] They have a pit bull named Piper, who is a rescue. [11]

Although she is not religious, Scott says that she was raised in the Jewish faith and culture by her mother. Scott is a member of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California. [31]

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  26. ↑ "Mike Golic And Kate Scott To Call Games On 'College Football Saturday Night.'". Inside Radio . September 2, 2021.
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