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Alana Rizzo

SportsNet Los Angeles Dodgers' sports reporter Alanna Rizzo is a former athlete herself.

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If you may, the Colorado native is an athletic hall of famer of the Sierra High School. Importantly, she was a track and cross country athlete for the Sierra High School.

After that she enjoyed an undergraduate degree in International business. As per our research, she later was fulfilling sound sales and marketing job.

Now fast forwarding to 2016, she is regarded as one of the top female reporter in the United States.

Indeed, she decided to preserve her athlete fire when she decided to pursue M.A degree in broadcast journalism at the University of Colorado. Impressively, she not only graduated (in 2003) in broadcast journalism from the University of Colorado but also achieved a successful career in journalism.

Of course, we are all inspired by her life journey. She is such a person who has not only followed her dream but also lived it passionately.

Sadly, she was not good enough to be on the University of Colorado Team. However, she was interested in nothing but sports, as she was interested in sports since her childhood. Indeed, she couldn't pursue career in sports as an athlete. However, she kept her sports dream alive by joining sports journalism.

Amazingly, she joined the University of Colorado masters program at the age of 28 after getting tired of her un-fulfilling sales and marketing job. She later climbed up the ladders progressing from small paying on-screen jobs to jobs like being a sideline reporter for a CBS Affiliate network. Later, she got chance to return to her hometown Colorado when she got a job with the network (Rook Sports Rocky Mountain Network) that covers Colorado rockies. There, she won three regional Emmy awards.

Later, she gained national exposure after joining the MLB network, where she reported for the shows such as Intentional Talk and Quick Pitch for one year (2012-2013). Nevertheless, her short stint at the MLB network awarded her well. In no time she was called by the Dodgers to be it’s trademark reporter.

However, Alana had never thought that Dodgers will come to her door offering her a job. That's why Alana says that sometimes the path chooses you even if you  are not unaware what path you want to choose in life. However, Alana is someone who believes in following her dream and doing her homework in time. This is the reason why she has enjoyed so many opportunities in her life.

Interestingly, Alanna is now happy with her busy job. She is proud of the fact that she has stepped out her comfort zones and learned many experiences making many mistakes.

Latina Leadership award (2015) winner Alanna is totally respected and celebrated by Dodgers fans more than anybody.  At the end of the day, she is the person who passionately reports on Dodgers campaigns, never worrying about weather conditions, Gatorade baths or the ice cold post-season champagne celebrations.

Now moving on to her physique, she is an average tall woman with the height of 5 feet and 7 inches. Impressively, the ageless beauty possesses a hot fit athletic body even on her 40's.

Talking about her relationship status, she is reportedly a married woman. Several reputed websites have mentioned that she is married to Justin Kole. Nevertheless, she has no children.

Unfortunately, her net worth is not known. However, we can easily speculate that she is worth high, given her successful career.


Quick Facts
Occupations: Journalist
Sportswriter
Citizenship: United States of America
Education: Sierra High School, Colorado
University of Colorado Boulder
Gender: Female
Description: American sportswriter
Twitter Id: Alannarizzo
Net Worth 2021: 1 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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