Mary Strong (born 1973) is an American
broadcast journalist, professional beach
volleyball player and master yoga instructor.
Strong graduated from
Loyola Marymount University, where she was a full scholarship athlete on the NCAA Women’s Division I volleyball team. She later spent time on the
AVP
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Medicine
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pro beach volleyball circuit, ranking top 20, and was inducted in the Notre Dame High School Hall of Fame in 2016 for her outstanding achievements in volleyball.
Strong began her career as a news journalist for
NBC and
CNN, eventually earning an Edward R. Murrow Award for breaking news coverage. She parlayed her love for sports and broadcasting into a career on the sidelines for
Fox Sports Network, covering AVP pro beach volleyball,
Pacific-10 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division ...
football, and poker. She was nominated for an Emmy as the host of Fox Sports Net show DIG and for the
DirecTV Sports Mix Channels. Strong worked as a sideline reporter for
NFL Network,
GSN's ''
Extreme Dodgeball'' as well as
Fox Sports Net's
Poker Superstars III,
NBC's
Poker Championships, and the
International Pool Tour
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in the U.S. and Europe. In September 2006, Strong began anchoring for
NFL Network, covering breaking news on ''NFL Network Now'' and ''NFL Total Access''.
Strong is also the founder of The Green Yogi, an award-winning eco-conscious power yoga studio, with locations in
Manhattan Beach and
Berkeley, California.
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National Football League announcers
Living people
1973 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
American sports journalists
College football announcers