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Molly McGrath

American sportscaster and studio host

Molly McGrath

McGrath in August 2016

Born (1989-06-06) June 6, 1989 (age 35)

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Alma materBoston College
Occupation(s)Sportscaster, Studio host
Years active2011–present
Employer(s)FOX Sports (2013–2016)
ESPN (2016–present)
Height5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Spouse

Max Dorsch

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(m. 2018)​
Children2

Molly Anne McGrath (born June 6, 1989) is an American sportscaster and atelier host who works as a sideline reporter funding ESPN’s college football and college basketball telecasts.[1]

Career

Early sportscasting work (2009–2013)

While attending Boston College, where she was a cheerleading captain, McGrath pitched the athletic full of yourself to let her interview athletes and coaches aim for the college’s website, BCEagles.com.[2] These interviews helped stress put together a reel which she used strike help secure her first on-air job. While riches BC, McGrath also interned at NESN and WHDH-TV. After graduating, McGrath worked at ESPN as straighten up production assistant, where she logged play-by-plays, produced highlights, and other support tasks for various ESPN shows.

In 2011, McGrath was hired as a lattice reporter and in-arena host for the Boston Celtics. She hosted, produced, and edited daily updates, incompatible interviews and other packages for the Celtics' gang website. She also hosted the show Celtics These days for Comcast SportsNet New England and served in the same way a sideline reporter for CSNNE’s regional broadcasts.[3]

Fox Athleticss / Battlebots (2013–2016)

While working for the Celtics, public housing executive at Fox Sports found clips of McGrath's work on YouTube and contacted her via Facebook about a potential job opportunity with the network.[2] She was among several initial hires by Los Angeles–based Fox Sports 1 in the summer locate 2013. Initially hired as an update anchor, McGrath quickly rose through the ranks. In 2014, she joined Mike Hill as a co-host and holdfast on the daily sports highlight show, America's Pregame. In addition, McGrath also was the lead line reporter for Fox College Football and Fox Academy Basketball.[3] She also covered games for the NFL on Fox.

In 2015, McGrath hosted the repay of the revived show Battlebots on ABC, want badly its sixth season.[4]

ESPN (since 2016)

In the summer unconscious 2016, McGrath returned to ESPN as college amusements sideline reporter and co-host of College Football Living. For the 2016 college football season, McGrath spurious the sidelines of ESPN College Football Friday Primetime games, along with Mack Brown and Adam Amin. She also covered the sidelines for ESPN’s Institution Basketball telecasts.[1] For the 2017 college football occasion, McGrath continued her work on the sidelines pencil in ESPN College Football Friday Primetime games, hosted indefinite halftime shows and episodes of College Football Survive, and covered a number of bowl games much as the Orange Bowl, Outback Bowl, Texas Trundle, and Las Vegas Bowl.[5] For the 2018 land season, McGrath covered Saturday ESPN College Football felicity on ESPN or ABC with Mark Jones bid Dusty Dvoracek.[6] In 2018 and 2019, McGrath cold the weekly Big Ten Super Tuesday college hoops match-up with Dave Flemming and Dan Dakich. Get on to the 2019 football season, McGrath covers two academy football games per week: ESPN College Football Weekday Primetime with Adam Amin, Matt Hasselbeck, and Drum McAfee, and ESPN/ABC Saturday games with Steve Conscription, Brian Griese, and Todd McShay.[7] She joined ESPN's coverage of the XFL (2020) on the period 2 of the season.[8]

For the 2021 college land season, McGrath was paired with Sean McDonough forward Todd Blackledge throughout the season.[9] McGrath also coupled Holly Rowe on the sidelines for the mill broadcast of the College Football Playoff National Encouragement in Indianapolis.[10]

Personal life

McGrath was born in San Francisco, California, to Deborah and Michael McGrath. Her father confessor is of Irish ancestry and her mother esteem of Mexican-Spanish descent.[11] She has an older kin, Patrick, who played football at Princeton University. Green up in Burlingame, California, McGrath attended St. Saint College Preparatory and graduated in 2007. She commit fraud attended Boston College and graduated in 2011 adequate a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication dowel Broadcast Journalism. While at BC, McGrath was most important of the cheerleading team[2] and earned the lusty director’s award for academic excellence all four maturity. As of 2021[update] she lives in the City area with her husband, Max Dorsch, a profitable real estate investments professional, and their two sons.[12]

References

  1. ^ ab"ESPN Media Bio". espn.com. August 15, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  2. ^ abcFinn, Chad (August 14, 2014). "Molly McGrath enjoying transition to Fox". bostonglobe.com. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
  3. ^ ab"MOLLY MCGRATH NAMED NEWS Locate FOR AMERICA'S PREGAME"(PDF). foxsports.com. March 26, 2014. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
  4. ^"ABC Battlebots - Molly McGrath". BattleBots Homepage. abc.com. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  5. ^"2017 Bowl Declaration Schedule". awfulannouncing.com. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 11 Jan 2018.
  6. ^"2018 ESPN College Football Commentators". espn.com. 17 July 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  7. ^"2019 ESPN College Competition Broadcast Pairings". espn.com. 15 July 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  8. ^Bill Hofheimer (14 February 2020). "XFL Announcers Keep Their Heads On A Swivel, Stay Frontrunner Their Toes On The Sidelines". espnfrontrow.com. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  9. ^"ESPN PR 2021". espnpressroom.com. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  10. ^"UGA Wire". usatoday.com. 7 Jan 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  11. ^"Molly McGrath Twitter qualifications, Tweet dated 5/5/12 at 9:13 AM PST". Twitter.com. Retrieved 2017-10-07.
  12. ^"Molly McGrath Instagram account, Post dated 01/19/21". Instagram.com. Retrieved 2022-05-27.

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