Brooke Olzendam is a sportscaster who currently works for the

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as a part of their

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broadcast team. She previously worked with

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as a host of ''Pacers Live'' and sideline reporter for the Indiana Pacers. She also works for the Pac-12 Network.

Early career

Olzendam started her career covering the

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as the host of ''Huskies All-Access'', performed sideline reporting for Huskies football and basketball, and served as a host of ''Runnin' with the Pac''.

Sportscasting career

Olzendam is the sideline reporter and pregame/halftime/postgame host for

telecasts since 2014 and does football sideline reporting for the Pac-12 Network. She joined the Pacers in 2011 after spending two seasons with the

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as their primetime football sideline reporter. She has done sideline reporting for

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(now

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) covering from professional baseball to horse racing and was the pregame/halftime/postgame host for the

and was the sideline reporter for UCLA Bruins football telecasts on

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Personal

A native of

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, Olzendam graduated from

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and then the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at

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in 2003. Her father Dave Olzendam is a member of the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, who won 430 games in 31 seasons coaching at four high schools in Washington, notably Medical Lake outside of Spokane. In 2011, she married Andy Collins, a former college football quarterback at the

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and Occidental College, and a native of

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, a town of 3,000 located in the Yakima Valley, a two-hour drive from Olzendam's hometown. Collins died ten days after their wedding. Olzendam launched a campaign to raise money for the American Heart Association in honor of her late husband.

References

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