Lisa Salters

Lisa Salters Introduction

Salters actually had a background in journalism before concentrating on sports reporting.

Lisa Salters Life Story

Salters joined ESPN as a general assignment reporter in March 2000. She currently serves as sideline reporter for ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime and courtside reporter for ESPN’s coverage of the NBA on ABC.

In addition, Salters is one of the featured correspondents on ESPN’s new news magazine show, E:60, which debuted October 2007.

At ESPN, Salters’ reports have been regularly featured on the award-winning “Outside the Lines” series. She led the network’s comprehensive coverage of the murder trial of Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth in December 2000 through January 2001. Additionally, Salters was ESPN’s reporter at the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan, where she broke the news on the U.S. National Team’s starting lineup a day before its first match in against Portugal. Salters reported from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and hosted ESPN’s coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy.

During the build-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom through the commencement of the war, Salters covered sports-related stories in and around U.S. Central Command in Qatar for “Outside the Lines,” SportsCenter and ESPNEWS. She went back into the war zone in 2004 when ESPN took SportsCenter on the road and broadcast live from Camp Arifjan, a U.S. Army base in Kuwait.

Prior to joining ESPN, Salters served as a Los Angeles-based correspondent for ABC News from 1995 to 2000 and provided news coverage for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts. At ABC News, she covered the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the Matthew Shepard murder, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and both the civil and criminal O.J. Simpson trials.