SPJ-NE Region 1 Conference - Lesley Visser Keynote Speech

Lesley Visser is the most highly acclaimed female sportscaster of all time. The trailblazing pioneer is in eight Halls of Fame and has almost always been the First - The First woman enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame; the First woman to win the Lifetime Achievement Sports Emmy; the First woman on the Network broadcasts of the Final Four, the NBA Finals, the Super Bowl and the World Series. She is the First and Only woman to have presented the Championship Lombardi Trophy at the Super Bowl. She was First woman to cover the NFL as a beat writer, the First woman on ABC’S “Monday Night Football” and the First female NFL analyst in both Radio and TV. She was the First female sportscaster to carry the Olympic Torch and the only winner of the Billie Jean King “Outstanding Journalist Award.” In October, she will become the First woman to win the Vin Scully Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting.