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Candace Brooke Weisbrod is an American sportscaster and college basketball analyst and reporter for ESPN.


Early life

Weisbrod was born in
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, where she attended
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and St. Ursula Academy, and was a three-sport athlete at
Coastal Carolina University Coastal Carolina University (CCU or Coastal) is a public university in Conway, South Carolina. Founded in 1954 as Coastal Carolina Junior College, and later joining the University of South Carolina System as USC Coastal Carolina, it became an in ...
(basketball, softball, and tennis). She was the second player in school history to amass at least 1,000 points, 300 rebounds and 200 assists. Her basketball awards include
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Rookie of the Year, Big South Conference Player of the Year, Big South Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year, NCAA Woman of the Year (South Carolina), and the Big South Conference All Decade Team. The Chanticleers played for an NCAA Tournament berth twice, losing to
Liberty University Liberty University (LU) is a private Baptist university in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (Southern Baptist Convention). Founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell Sr. and Elmer L. Towns, Liberty i ...
in the Big South Conference Championship Game in 1999 and 2000. Weisbrod lettered in tennis and batted .256 with 4 HR's and 18 RBI's for the 1998 softball team that reached the NCAA Tournament. She graduated magna cum laude and was selected into the Wall School of Business Wall Fellows Program. In 2007, she was inducted into the university’s Athletic Hall of Fame, and in 2013 she was the first female athlete to be named Chanticleer of the Year. Weisbrod briefly played professionally for Germany’s Marburg Marlins until a back injury forced her to retire at 21.


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Broadcasting career

Weisbrod began her career in broadcasting with ESPN in 2004 as a women’s college basketball analyst. While building a name for herself in broadcasting, she balanced a sales career in the advertising and metals industries for ten years. Now a full-time sports broadcaster, she covers college, high school, and professional basketball. On January 28, 2009, she called her first men's game, a then Big East matchup with West Virginia defeating St. John’s 75–52 in Morgantown, West Virginia. She is now one of a few female analysts in the country who regularly calls men’s college basketball games. Weisbrod was the analyst for the WNBA’s
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for the 2013 and 2014 season, and was named sideline reporter and co-host for
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’s Chicago Fire in February 2014. On April 7, 2014, she joined WGN-FM’s ''The Game'' as news update and on-air personality of the Kap and Haugh Show.


Other ventures

Weisbrod created Skills and Score in 2017, a non-profit organization providing free sports and arts camps to Chicago Public School students. She also co-founded the Chi-Side, a sports media training program for basketball players ages 11–18. She travels to universities and events across the country as a speaker on the subjects of inspiration and motivation, women in sports, and media training. She has worked with the
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's Girl Up campaign and has also been a guest speaker for
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, WNBA, and
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, among others.


Awards and honors

* 1998 Big South Conference Rookie of the Year * 2001 Big South Conference Player of the Year * 2001 Big South Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year * 2001 NCAA Woman of the Year, South Carolina * 2001 Wall Fellows Program * 2007 Coastal Carolina University Hall of Fame * 2013 Chanticleer of the Year * 2014 Big South Conference All-Decade Team * 2018 Big South Conference Hall of Fame * 2021 WISE Woman of Inspiration


References

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