Lesley Visser

Categories: Sports Announcers
  • Lesley Visser is an accomplished sportscaster who has covered many major events for ESPN, CBS and ABC.
  • Fast Facts:

    1. Born: September 11, 1953 in Quincy, Massachusetts
    2. Graduated from Boston College; later awarded an honorary doctorate
    3. Pioneer for women in sportscasting
    4. At start of career, press credentials usually labeled: "No Women or Children Allowed in the Press Box"
    5. First female sportscaster to carry the Olympic torch
    6. Covered the fall of the Berlin Wall from an East German sports angle
    7. Super Bowl Trophy Presentation in 1992
    8. Married to sportscaster Dick Stockton
    9. Freak accident in 1993 required plastic surgery and an artificial hip replacement

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