Beth Mowins, longtime play-by-play announcer for ESPN, joins Says Who Sports to share her perspectives on a variety of topics, including becoming the first female broadcaster to call a game for Monday Night Football, calling college football and basketball games, and being the voice of the Womens College World Series for thirty years for ESPN.
Mowins provides valuable insight into what it's like in the broadcast booth from a play-by-play perspective during a game, and likens handling the hectic, many-things-happening-at-once duties to being a quarterback or point guard, which she was at Lafayette College (Mowins captained the basketball team, and still holds the school's all-time assists record).
Mowins shares her thoughts about growing up in a sports-crazed family in North Syracuse, N.Y., the powerful impact of watching Phyllis George on the iconic NFL Today show as a kid, and the honor of receiving the Marty Glickman Award for leadership in sports media from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School (where she earned her master's degree in communications) in 2015, joining the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert and Sean McDonough.
Mowins also offers her perspectives on the creeping influence of social media on the way some broadcasters approach calling games, the importance of broadcasters knowing when to 'stay out of the way' during big moments in games and letting the camera work of the production crew and crowd paint a powerful picture, and much more!