Lesley Visser Official

Lesley Visser is the most highly acclaimed female sportscaster of all time – the first woman enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame (2006); the first woman sportscaster to carry the Olympic Torch (2004, when the International Olympic Committee hailed her as a “pioneer and standard-bearer”); the only woman to have presented the Lombardi Championship Trophy at the Super Bowl (1992, CBS); the first woman on ABC’S Monday Night Football (1998); voted the No. 1 Female Sportscaster of All-Time by the American Sportscasters Association; voted to both the Sportscasters Hall of Fame and the Sportswriters Hall of Fame; the only person to win the Billie Jean King “Outstanding Journalist” Award; the only Sportscaster – male or female – to have worked on the Network broadcasts of the Super Bowl, the Final Four, the NBA Finals, the Olympics, the Triple Crown, the US Open and the World Figure Skating Championships.