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CHPL is excited to welcome Kate Scott, Television Play-by-Play Announcer for the Philadelphia 76ers! Interviewed by Lauren Rosen, Team Reporter for the 76ers, Ms. Scott will share her inspiring and groundbreaking adventures in sports broadcasting.This event is reserved for patrons with valid Cherry Hill Public Library cards. Registrants with invalid cards will be canceled.
Registration Required: https://chplnj.libcal.com/event/12212173
Kate Scott recently wrapped her third season as NBC Sports Philadelphia’s 76ers play-by-play announcer. A sports media veteran, she has been calling top international, professional, and collegiate events on television and radio for more than a decade and has served in several groundbreaking roles.
Last summer, she made her FIFA World Cup debut as part of FOX's coverage of the 2023 Women's World Cup and took over as the new preseason television voice for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks.
Before coming to Philadelphia, Scott became the first woman to call an NBA game on the radio in March 2021 as part of an all-female broadcast team for the Golden State Warriors and was the play-by-play announcer for the first all-female NHL telecast in the U.S. in March 2020. Scott was also the first woman to call football for the Pac-12 Networks in 2017 after becoming the first to call an NFL game on the radio in 2016.
A native of Clovis, California, Scott earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley.
Follow Kate Scott on Instagram & Threads (@katetscott).
Lauren Rosen is a sports reporter and host based in Philadelphia. She is the Team Reporter for the Philadelphia 76ers, recently wrapping her sixth season covering the team. In addition to her on-camera duties, Rosen appears weekly on the Sixers’ flagship radio station, 97.5 The Fanatic, hosts podcasts for the 76ers Podcast Network, and writes for Sixers.com.
Prior to her time in Philadelphia, Rosen covered the Chicago Sky and worked for the Chicago Bulls while earning a master’s degree in journalism with a sports broadcasting concentration at Northwestern University’s Medill School.
She attended Duke University as an undergraduate, where she studied english, political science, and theater studies and was a four-year varsity cheerleader. From 2015-2018, Rosen worked as a production runner with ESPN.
She was born in San Francisco, California and raised in Houston, Texas.
Follow Lauren Rosen on Twitter & Instagram (@laurenmrosen).
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cherry Hill Public Library, 1100 Kings Hwy N, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034-1911, United States,Cherry Hill, New Jersey