Cindy Brunson is a sports anchor and reporter, most known for ESPN's SportsCenter. She is currently working as part of the

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broadcast team as a football and men's basketball sideline reporter and women's basketball play-by-play announcer.

Biography

Brunson graduated from

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in University Place, Washington. She is an alumna of

Washington State University Washington State University (Washington State, WSU, or informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university with its flagship, and oldest, campus in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant uni ...

, with a

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degree in broadcast communications.

Broadcasting career

Brunson joined ESPN as an ESPNEWS anchor in September 1999. She served as co-host alongside David Lloyd on the network's weekend morning SportsCenter programs. Prior to ESPN, Brunson served as a weekend sports and news anchor/reporter at KATU in

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, from July 1998 to August 1999. While in Portland, she covered the Portland Trail Blazers, the

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and

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering ...

football, and men's and women's basketball programs. Prior to KATU, Brunson served as a weather anchor and news reporter at KHQ-6 in

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. Brunson was anchoring when ESPNEWS covered Florida Marlins rookie

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's no-hitter, thrown September 6, 2006. She was also anchoring SportsCenter when

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slugger

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hit his 755th and 756th career home runs, tying and surpassing Hank Aaron for most all-time. Brunson officially left ESPN on December 29, 2012 after co-anchoring her final ''SportsCenter'' broadcast alongside

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. She co-anchored her first ''SportsCenter'' broadcast in February 2001 alongside her future husband, Steve Berthiaume. Brunson joined the Arizona Diamondbacks broadcast team in March 2013. She cohosted pre-game and post-game shows with Jody Jackson on Sunday games.

Personal life

Brunson is a native of

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. She is married to current Arizona Diamondbacks play-by-play man and former SNY and

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anchor Steve Berthiaume. She is also an avid

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and

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fan.

References

Cindy Brunson ESPN Bio
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