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Anna Brooks Kooiman is an American news anchor and television panelist, currently working for Australia's
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. From 2011 to 2016, she served as anchor and reporter for
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based in
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. Kooiman's last position with Fox News was as co-host on the weekend edition of ''
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''. Since then, she has been with
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's Australian division as a substitute anchor and panelist on various news programs for Network Ten.


Early life

Kooiman grew up in
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, where her parents still live and own businesses – Southeast Oasis Pool and the Peppermint Forest Christmas Shop. Of Dutch ancestry, she went to
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(2002 graduate), where she played softball and also played with the SouthPark Youth Association.


Career

Kooiman began her online fitness business for moms/mums, Strong Sexy Mammas, in 2019. The company is based in Sydney, Australia. Kooiman teaches a half dozen live classes at boutique fitness studios in Bondi Beach and periodically teaches online classes via Strong Sexy Mammas. Strong Sexy Mammas is primarily a video on demand and education platform for women's fitness. Kooiman taught fitness classes in Charlotte, North Carolina from 2008-2011. Kooiman's early work in TV broadcast journalism began with her working as a sideline reporter for
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during her college years at UNC Wilmington in 2004. After graduation, she continued her work as a reporter, anchor and video journalist for
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in
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in 2005. In January 2007 Kooiman moved to
Toledo, Ohio Toledo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. A major Midwestern United States port city, Toledo is the fourth-most populous city in the state of Ohio, after Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, and according ...
, and began working for the local
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affiliate,
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, as morning anchor and reporter. While there, she served as franchise reporter for a partnership with
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that helped catch over 100 fugitives. In May 2008, Kooiman moved back to
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, to work as an anchor/reporter/host for ''Fox News Rising'', a four-hour news and entertainment morning show on the then-
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affiliate
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(as of 2013, WCCB became a CW-affiliated network). While at WCCB-TV, she reported on local news stories, entertainment, weather and traffic. In December 2011, Kooiman became a New York-based correspondent covering health and fitness as well as general assignment reporting for FNC. She was also host on the weekend morning show''. Kooiman covered terror attacks in
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, and
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. She was also out in the elements during major weather events like Super Storm Sandy, tornadoes in
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, and the 2016 U.S. blizzard. Kooiman covered the debates for the
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in Detroit. She has also hosted the ''All American New Year'' for FNC. Her franchise, "Roadtrip with Anna Kooiman" takes viewers around the United States, checking off bucket list items. Kooiman left New York City to start a family in September 2016 and moved to
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, with her husband, who is originally from Australia. As part of corporate synergy of
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,
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and
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, she is a substitute anchor and panelist on
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news programs ''
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'' and ''The Project''.


Personal life

On February 8, 2015, Kooiman announced her engagement on her
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page. She became engaged to her Australian boyfriend Tim Stuckey while on a personal vacation to Australia; her boyfriend proposing to her while both were watching the sunrise over
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. The couple was married on July 31, 2015, at
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's
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Loeb Boathouse. Anna's husband appeared in 2016 on ''FOX & Friends'' for a cooking segment, which received
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attention for using the signature Aussie condiment,
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. Kooiman is known on social media for her international travel and adventures. She had her first child in January 2018 and second in May 2020. Kooiman has completed four
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s and numerous
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s. While working for
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in Toledo, she ran the 2008 Glass City Marathon in 3:27:22 and finished 3rd overall in the women's division. In April 2014, Kooiman completed the
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while reporting on the race and conducting interviews for
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. The event, one of the
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and run annually since 1897, always attracts worldwide attention, but after the previous year's
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, it drew extra media attention. In November 2014, Kooiman raised over $55,000 on
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and in direct donations to Folds of Honor while running the
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in 3:54:15 with Major Dan Rooney. The organization provides scholarships and assistance to families of American troops who died or were injured in service to their country. Kooiman is a Ronald McDonald House Ambassador in Sydney Australia. Back in college, Kooiman first got involved with the charity when she served as the philanthropy chair of her sorority,
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while at
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. Beginning in August 2008, Kooiman was a fitness instructor in Charlotte. She is AFAA and Turbo Kick Certified. She taught up to ten classes each week. She also served as a fitness instructor to kids in an inner-city after-school program. In April 2016, Kooiman was crowned Festival Queen for the
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.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kooiman, Anna Living people American expatriates in Australia American people of Dutch descent American television reporters and correspondents People from Charlotte, North Carolina Fox News people University of North Carolina at Wilmington alumni 1984 births