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Lisa Kerney is a <a href="/biography/lisa-kerney">native</a> of Leawood, KS in the United States of America. This is the biography of the ESPN’s sport host and anchor.

Lisa Kerney was born <a href="/biography/lisa-kerney">Lisa Diane Gangel</a>. Her parents are named Lou and Barbara Gangel.

As a child Lisa always wanted to be a broadcaster. She would go around her family home giving interviews to each of her siblings and parents, pretending to be a broadcaster for ESPN.

During an interview with The Kansas City Star, Lisa and her parents, Lou and Barbara Gangel spoke about her childhood hobby and passion for becoming a broadcaster. She says: “I used to always take a hairbrush or a Popsicle, and we would videotape each other, I would always be the one asking interview questions. This is when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I was interviewing my siblings about made-up sports games in the backyard or the driveway. No one else was in charge of the microphone. It was always me.”

Even Lisa's mother Barbara knew about her daughters calling to sports broadcasting. She recounted during the interview about how her Lisa would interview kids from around the neighborhood pretending to be sports stars. Lisa's mother Barbara was quoted as saying: “Any sport you could think of, she would get them to pretend they were doing and she would interview them on it. But I never thought that would turn into a career. I really didn’t.”

All the while Barbara wasn't sure it would turn into a career, Lisa was very much sure of it. She says during the interview, “I’m that lucky <a href="/biography/lisa-kerney">kid</a> that knew from the time I was teeny tiny what I wanted to do,” she said. “Somehow, it worked out. To have other people think that I’m not too shabby at it is really a huge blessing, and I’ve really been incredibly fortunate to get to do what I love to do.”

Lisa's father, Lou Gangel spoke about how happy he is about his daughters success. He said, “It’s actually pretty exciting. We’ve got a lot of friends and she’s got a lot of friends who have known her from high school and college. We talked to them from time to time and they’ll say, ‘Oh, I saw Lisa on TV.’ It makes you proud, because she’s done so well.”

Clearly Lisa has come a long way and has the full support of her family and friends behind her. Everyone is so proud of how far she has come and how hard she has worked to achieve the level of success she has thus far.

Studies

She attended the Lynn University, a private institution, in Boca Raton, Florida. While she was attending the university, she was part of the women’s basketball team, the Fighting Knights. In fact, she was the captain and <a href="/biography/lisa-kerney">point guard</a> of the team. From the Lynn University, she got her major in broadcast communications. Before her graduation, she got at internship in Kansas City, Missouri for the Time Warner Cable Metro Sports, a Time Warner Cable sports cable channel. She graduated in May 2004 with a bachelor's degree, and in 2016 she came back to her college to give a commencement address to the students.

First Job

Her first work experience was with a Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate in Button, Montana. The television station in question is the KXLF. She then worked as a sports anchor during the weekends for ING-TV, a television station based in Seattle, Washington, for ten years starting in 2005. During that period of time she also worked for The Jim Mora Show, where she was in charge of the national highlight segment. Also, she hosted the Northwest Sports Tonight.

After leaving ING-TV in 2010, she started to work for MLB Network, also known as the Major League Baseball Network. This is a cable channel that is of course owned by the Major League Baseball. During her time working there she was a <a href="/biography/lisa-kerney">sports reporter</a> and a contributor there.

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She then joined WCBS-TV, a television station based in New York. It is a CBS affiliated station. She worked there for about a year. In her time there she served as the sports anchor for News This Morning a CBS 2 show. She joined that program in 2012.

ESPN

It was in 2014 that she started working for ESPN. This is a network that belongs to the Hearst Corporation and the Walt Disney Company. Her work in there consisted in being a studio anchor and also included shows from various of the ESPN platforms. She is still working there in those same job positions.

In 2005 she received the awards for Best TV Personality and for Best Sports Reporter given Montana Standard People’s Choice Awards: Top Choice. Her current net worth is: 14.8 Million.

Personal Life

She first met her future husband while covering a Seahawks press conference back in 2007. The man she married is former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kerney">football player</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kerney">Patrick Kerney</a>. After retiring from the Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks, Kerney went to become the Vice President of National Football League Legends Operations and Player Benefits, joining that way the National Football League in 2013.

They have four children together, two girls and a pair of twins. The later ones were announced via twitter back in December 2014. This news was met with awe as it was not one baby, but two on this occasion. They had twins. About her physical appearance, her height, for example is unknown.

On another note, it is possible to find her online. For example, her official account is: @LisaKerneyESPN. Her account connects to the ESPN’s official twitter account. There she posts about sport events and may even slide a gossip or news regarding her life. Lisa Kerney also has a very active Instagram account which she posts to regularly. She often times posts about her work life, showing pictures of her with famous professional athletes, but she also posts quite a bit about her family and and shows pictures of them having a great time.

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