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Heather Cox

Heather Cox was born on June the 3rd in 1970. Her birth name is Heather Schoeny Cox. Her hometown is in Jonesville, North Carolina in the United States of America. This is the biography of this famous sportscaster.

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Studies

She was an avid volleyball player. It was in 1987 that she was part of United States National Volleyball Team. She played there for eight years. She studied at a private college, the University of the Pacific, in Stockton, California. She received her degree in communications from there in 1992.

Volley

She was an avid volleyball player. It was in 1987 that she was part of United States National Volleyball Team. She played there for eight years. While she was attending college, she formed part of the volleyball team. It was thanks to her abilities playing that sport that she was granted a scholarship in 1988. Cox was in fact the captain of the women’s volleyball team. Her college volleyball career was very fruitful, the University of the Pacific’s Division I volleyball team ranked quite high from 1988 to 1991. Then in 1990 she led her team through the National Championship and they finished in the fourth position as a runner up. That same year she was a competitor at the United States Olympic Festival.

In a note of interest, she was part of the Sacramento Stars a their team captain. That team is part of the National Volleyball Association.

Starting a Career

One of her first jobs was in Fox Sports Net as a basketball analyst. There she also worked as a reporter and analyst of professional volleyball and basketball, along with college football. A year later, she worked for the ESPN as an analyst, working on the coverage of the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball and the National Collegiate Athletic Association Volleyball Championships. In regards of the Men’s NCAA basketball tournament, she also covered it for CBS Sports. Among the other sports she also covered women’s college basketball, as an analyst. She also covered auto racing and motocross events.

Written work

In 1999 and for only a year, she worked on the Running with the Pac magazine show, as a reporter. She was a columnist working for the Pac-10 Conference, she started her job there in 2000, writing a weekly national volleyball column in 2000. From 1999 to 2000, she served as a reporter on.

Television work

In 1995 she started to work for ABC Sports. That same year she also started to work for the ESPN. Working for both networks she covered a large amount of sporting events and tournaments. Among the many works, there is her cover of NBA for ESPN, college football, Women's National Basketball Association and NCAA basketball for the ESPN. On the other hand, working for ABC Sports, she covered NCAA basketball for ABC, NBA for ABC, professional volleyball, and college football for ABC. While she was working for them, she ended up working on ABC's Saturday Night College Football Game of the Week, where she replaced Erin Andrews.

From 1998 to 2001 she went to work for Turner Sports. There she served as an analyst and reporter of the Goodwill Games. The year after finishing her work there, she started to work for Oxygen Media Network, serving as an analyst of their coverage of the WNBA. Apart from that, in that year she also covered the NBA Playoffs.

During 2003 she reported the NBC’s Association of Volleyball professionals. The following year she covered two events of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. This was also for the NBC. Continuing her work for NBC Sports, she also covered the Summer Olympics of 2008 and 2014. In both cases she was in charge of the beach volley event coverage.

Her work today is that of an ESPN Sideline Reporter.

To this day her salary and net worth remain private.

Awards

She received in 2004 the USA Volleyball E. Douglas Boyden Media Recognition Award.

Personal Life

She is a married woman. Her husband is Bill Cox. They have two children. It is possible to find her online at her twitter account: @heatherespn.


Quick Facts
Net Worth 2021: 365 thousand
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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