America's most influential female sports broadcaster — two-time Olympic softball medallist who became the first woman to serve as a regular analyst on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball, breaking barriers in sports broadcasting while remaining an ambassador for women in sport.
Jessica Mendoza was born in Camarillo, California in 1980. A former Olympic softball outfielder, she won gold at Athens 2004 and silver at Beijing 2008 with the USA national team, and won four World Softball Championship gold medals. In 2015 she became the first woman to serve as an analyst on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN — the most-watched regular-season sports broadcast in the United States. She became a full-time ESPN baseball analyst in 2016 and joined the New York Mets front office as a special advisor the same year. She won the ESPNW Impact25 Award and has been consistently ranked among the most influential women in American sports media.
Olympic Gold 2004
Career Honours
- Olympic Gold 2004
- Olympic Silver 2008
- First woman to broadcast Sunday Night Baseball (ESPN)
- ESPNW Impact25 Award