Pam Ward is an on-air personality for the cable sports television network

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, serving as one of the play-by-play announcers for ESPN's coverage of the 2012 and 2013

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. She is a graduate of the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

with a degree in communications. Prior to

, Ward worked as an anchor/host for

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between April 1992 and March 1995 and then WBAL between March 1995 and 1996. In 2000, Ward became the first woman to perform play-by-play announcing for an

NCAA football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. Unlike most o ...

nationally televised game.

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Biography from ESPN.com
Living people American television sports announcers American sports radio personalities College basketball announcers in the United States College football announcers University of Maryland, College Park alumni Women sports announcers Women's National Basketball Association announcers Women's college basketball announcers in the United States Softball announcers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-tv-bio-stub