Full Name
Ms. Betsy Ross
Job Title
President
Company
Game Day Communications
Speaker Bio
Emmy® award winning sports reporter Betsy M. Ross is president of Game Day Communications, a sports and entertainment communications firm based in Cincinnati and founded in 2002.
As one of the first women to break into national sports news, Ross most recently worked as an anchor at ESPN for five years. Before anchoring SportsCenter and ESPNEWS, Ross workedat NBC News Channel and Cincinnati’s NBC affiliate, WLWT TV, for seven years, where she‐covered the 1996 Presidential Election and Inauguration and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and Olympic trials, and as evening news anchor at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis.
She continues to be involved in sports broadcasting as play by play anchor for women’s and‐‐men’s college basketball for ESPN, Fox Sports and other national and regional outlets, and as a sports reporter for Cincinnati’s FOX 19. She won a regional Emmy® for her work on the broadcast of the Lauren Hill Mt. St. Joseph-Hilliard College basketball game at Xavier University in November 2014 and was honored with the Silver Circle Emmy® in 2022 for lifetime achievement in broadcasting.
In October of 2010, her first book titled Playing Ball with the Boys: The Rise of Women in Men's Sports was released to a national audience.
She teaches a master’s level course, Sports and PR, at Xavier University, a sports and PR class at Ball State and most recently taught a Sports Journalism course in the Media School at Indiana University. A native of Connersville, Indiana, she earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ball State, where she was a member of Alpha Sigma Tau sorority, and a master's in communication arts at the University of Notre Dame.
As one of the first women to break into national sports news, Ross most recently worked as an anchor at ESPN for five years. Before anchoring SportsCenter and ESPNEWS, Ross workedat NBC News Channel and Cincinnati’s NBC affiliate, WLWT TV, for seven years, where she‐covered the 1996 Presidential Election and Inauguration and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and Olympic trials, and as evening news anchor at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis.
She continues to be involved in sports broadcasting as play by play anchor for women’s and‐‐men’s college basketball for ESPN, Fox Sports and other national and regional outlets, and as a sports reporter for Cincinnati’s FOX 19. She won a regional Emmy® for her work on the broadcast of the Lauren Hill Mt. St. Joseph-Hilliard College basketball game at Xavier University in November 2014 and was honored with the Silver Circle Emmy® in 2022 for lifetime achievement in broadcasting.
In October of 2010, her first book titled Playing Ball with the Boys: The Rise of Women in Men's Sports was released to a national audience.
She teaches a master’s level course, Sports and PR, at Xavier University, a sports and PR class at Ball State and most recently taught a Sports Journalism course in the Media School at Indiana University. A native of Connersville, Indiana, she earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ball State, where she was a member of Alpha Sigma Tau sorority, and a master's in communication arts at the University of Notre Dame.
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