Brooke Fletcher is an on-air talent for

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, and the Big Ten Network. She co-hosts the Bally Sports show The Rally and previously covered the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Red Wings, and

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for

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. Her father is Scott Fletcher, who played 15 seasons in

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including his final season for Tigers in 1995. He’s currently a minor league instructor for the Tigers. Her brother-in-law is

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, who played for the Tigers in the 2019 season.

Early life and college

Fletcher was born in

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while her dad was playing for the Milwaukee Brewers. Her family moved to

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when she was two. She graduated from Starr's Mill High School in 2010, and went to Auburn University. She majored in business marketing and minored in Spanish, was in a sorority,

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and was involved in Auburn’s television station, Eagle Eye TV.

Career

Pageantry

She was

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in 2015 and Miss Georgia Teen USA in 2009, and first runner-up for

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. In

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, Fletcher competed against fellow future sportscaster Katie George of Kentucky.

Sports reporting

Fletcher started her career at

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in production then covered college sports on ESPNU and the

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. In 2018, she joined

as a host and reporter on

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, Red Wings, and

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broadcasts. She left Bally Sports Detroit in 2022 to co-host The Rally on

. She also joined

for their coverage of the

games and the Big Ten Network for their college football coverage in 2022.

References

External links

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