About Jenn
Jenn Brown is two time Emmy Award winning sports broadcaster for ESPN. In February 2010, she joined ESPN full time as a reporter for College GameDay, a sideline reporter for ESPN’s Thursday prime-time college football games as well as a Los Angeles-based bureau reporter.
In those roles, Jenn serves as a sideline reporter for ESPN and ABC’s college football and basketball games, a feature reporter for both football and basketball College GameDay programs, a live event reporter for ESPN’s Winter and Summer X Games as well as contributes reports and interviews for ESPN’s news-gathering operation for SportsCenter. She also co-hosts ESPNU’s RoadTrip which covers the biggest college football and basketball rivalry games.
Career
Prior to joining ESPN full time, Jenn worked for Showtime Sports as the first ever female correspondent on Inside the NFL. She was also a reporter for it’s boxing and mixed martial arts programing from 2008-2010. In the summer of 2009, Jenn co-hosted ABC’s prime-time show The Superstars where athletes and celebrities paired up and competed against each other in sports competitions. In 2008, Jenn was a host at E! Entertainment working on their online news show E! News Now. In her role at E!, Jenn also appeared as an entertainment correspondent on CNN Showbiz Tonight along with Chelsea Lately.
Jenn got her start in television by hosting and producing travel shows for Bennett Productions in 2004. For 3 1/2 she traveled to over 25 countries, taking viewers along on her many bold and electrifying adventures. She swam with sharks in Bora Bora, hang glided over the beaches in Brazil, paraglided off a mountain in Alaska, spent 2 weeks on a safari in Africa, cave dived in the Cenotes, swam with alligators in the Everglades, hung with the KGB in Russia, drove a Bugatti across the country in the Great America Run, drank 150 year old wine in the Ukraine, ran a 5K in Barcelona, watched Teahupoo surf contest in Tahiti from a helicopter, took surf lessons in Costa Rica, walked the red carpet at Cannes and watched the Monaco Grand Prix from a yacht in the harbour. Needless to say Jenn is a bit of an extremist…and she loves every minute of it.
Over her career Jenn has been seen on ESPN, ABC, CBS, Showtime, E!, CNN, CMT, Versus and HDNet.
NCAA Career Highlights
Jenn attended the University of Florida on a full academic scholarship and played four years on the Florida Gator softball team. Making the team as a freshman walk-on and winding up its senior captain, she finished 3rd all-time in career stolen bases.
Jenn received several academic honors while at the University of Florida. She graduated Summa Cum Laude (with highest honors), was an active member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee as well as a member of the Florida Blue Key. She was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Academic All-American team, CoSIDA Academic All-District, four time SEC Academic Honor Roll, National Society of Collegiate Honors, two time academic President’s List and two time academic Dean’s List. Jenn also started a mentoring program to help teenage girls in foster care.
Jenn applied to 17 law schools with the intention of becoming a Sports Agent, but was offered a job to host a travel show and moved to LA. To this day, Jenn has not opened any of the potential acceptance letters from law schools and her mother has them in a box at her home in Florida.
Modeling
After college Jenn was hired to be a fitness model for Under Armour and worked for them for several years. She appeared in numerous print and billboard campaigns as well as one of their Super Bowl commercials.
High School Career Highlights
On October 14th, 2010 Jenn was inducted into Bishop Moore High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame, being recognized as an All-Around Athlete.
An athlete at heart, her competitive nature began at an early age when she took up sports at 3 years old. Her parents, both former Olympic Gymnastics coaces, instilled Jenn with a passion for sports.
As a softball all-star, a Junior Olympic diver and a track and field superstar, her love for the game ultimately resulted in her breaking her high school’s record by earning the most varsity letters (14), by a male or female ahtlete while playing 7 sports in high school. She captained and played 5 sports in one year (diving, volleyball, basketball, softball and track & field) and was also chosen as one of the top 10 Athlete’s in Central Florida her senior year.
In addition to excelling in athletics in high school, Jenn served as class president, was on the honor roll every year, completed over 150 hours of service within her community as well as was chosen as Miss Bishop Moore her senior year.
A Word From Jenn
When I was inducted into my high school hall of fame this past year, I was asked if I had any advice to give the current student-athletes. I thought about it a while and what I came up with is something I thought might be nice to share with you because it applies to everyone.
“I wish when I was in high school or college someone had sat me down and told me to take it all in and really enjoy the special moments as they happen. I know it seems like something so obvious, but looking back I realize that I kind of took for granted all the amazing and wonderful experiences I had while playing sports. I know that life gets busy…day to day activities, playing sports, going to school, working, preparing for college or your career. But the problem is, that all of a sudden you start focusing on tomorrow and you end up missing out on what is going on today. You will find as you get older, life starts to fly by…and sometimes it’s not until a moment has passed, that you look back and realize how special it truly was. So my advice is be sure you enjoy TODAY…because those moments will be memories before you know it.” - Jenn Brown
