Michele Joan Tafoya Beaurain, better known as Michele Tafoya, is an American sportscaster. She has worked for NBC Sports since 2011, primarily as a sideline reporter for NBC Sunday Night Football.
Michele Tafoya was born on December 17, 1964, in Manhattan Beach, California. She gained expertise in mass communications with a degree from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1991, she completed her master's degree from the University of Southern California in business administration.
Michele Tafoya began her professional broadcasting career in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she provided coverage on women's basketball for Minnesota University. She was the first female basketball analyst and received a record on UNC-Charlotte's history book. Later, she moved to serve the audiences of the Midwest Sports Channel.
In September 1994, she went to join CBS for her first big break. She had the responsibility to work as a host and reporter for CBS TV. She was additionally assigned to college basketball coverage and the CBS sports program, Spectacular. She became successful at her new station and was asked to take her on-air debut for the Open Tennis Championships. She worked for the CBS NCAA tournament selection show called Goodwill Games. In 1988, she became a host for the Winter Olympics Late Night show. She worked as a CBS sideline reporter from 1994 to 1999.
After her stint at CBS Sports, she was asked to join up with ESPN and ABC Sports. In January 2000, she started her new path with the Disney-owned networks. She was employed as a sideline reporter, particularly for ESPN Monday Night Football. She also became a co-host for the show called Mike Tirico on ESPN Radio. From 2000 to 2003, she was the ESPN college football sideline reporter.
She declared her resignation from the sideline as a head reporter on October 21, 2008. Then, on April 20, 2009, she announced that she was starting her work as the new evening host for the drive time talk-radio show at WCCO-AM. She was found working there from June 2009 until January 2012.
In 2010, she left as a morning radio co-host on 92 KQRS in Minnesota's Twin Cities area. She spent four years close by Tom Barnard on a morning public broadcast. Tafoya told a Minnesota paper the show was set to go through changes that would require lesser commitments, yet she appeared content with the choice to part with the station. Brian Zepp supplanted Tafoya to team up with Tom Barnard, who signed an eight-year expansion with Cumulus. The Star Tribune additionally announced Tafoya's exit from KQRS matched with her new duties at NBC Sports.
In 2011, she joined NBC Sports as a reporter, where she could be viewed as the sideline reporter for the popular show called NBC Sunday Night Football.
Michele Tafoya has an estimated net worth of over $2 million.
On May 13, 2000, Michele Tafoya got married to Mark Vandersall.
Tafoya and her husband, Mark Vandersall, have two children.
Edina, Minnesota, is where the family resides. She admitted to WCCO-TV in 2007 that she had suffered from an eating disorder since she was a child.
Tafoya characterizes herself as a "libertarian conservative with pro-choice inclinations."
| Birth Date: | 17 Dec, 1964 |
| Age: | 55 yrs |
| Occupations: | Radio personality Sports commentator |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Manhattan Beach |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American sportscaster |
| Net Worth 2021: | 2 million |
