2022 HOSTS & FEATURED SPEAKERS
St. Vincent
Grammy Award Winning Artist
Jocelyn
Alo
USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year 2022
Renie
Anderson
Chief Revenue Officer and Executive Vice President, NFL Partnerships
Malika
Andrews
NBA Reporter and Host of 'NBA Today', ESPN
Meg
Aronowitz
Vice President, Production, ESPN
Dr. Jessica
Bartley
Senior Director of Psychological Services, United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee
Carolyn
Braff
Head of Gatorade Brand Strategy
Arthur
Bryant
Partner, Bailey Glasser, LLP
Aisha
Chaney
Coordinating Producer II, LA SportsCenter, ESPN
Keia
Clarke
Chief Executive Officer, New York Liberty
Emma
Coburn
Athlete, New Balance
Susan
Cohig
Executive Vice President, Club Business Affairs
Marsha
Cooke
Vice President, Executive Producer, ESPN Films and 30 for 30
Kareem
Daniel
Chairman, Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution
Stephanie
Druley
Executive Vice President, Event & Studio Production, ESPN
Elle
Duncan
SportsCenter Anchor & Summit Host
Crystal
Dunn
Professional Soccer Player, United States Women's National Team (USWNT)
Rachel
Epstein
Vice President, espnW Marketing & Female Audience Expansion
Dr. Courtney
Flowers
Associate Professor of Sport Studies & Sport Leadership (SSSL)
Julie
Foudy
espnW columnist and ESPN soccer commentator, World Cup Champion
Laura
Gentile
Executive Vice President, Commercial Marketing, Disney Networks & ESPN and Founder, espnW
Hilary
Guy
Coordinating Producer II, ESPN
Becky
Hammon
Head Coach, Las Vegas Aces
Ashleigh
Huffman
Chief of Sports Diplomacy
Kate
Johnson
Director of Global Sports & Entertainment Marketing Partnerships, Content and Media, Google
Flora
Kelly
Vice President, Brand Strategy & Content Insights, ESPN
Mary Ellen
Kelly
Owner & Founder, Fuel Forward
Monica
McNutt
ESPN Basketball Game and Studio Analyst
Jaymee
Messler
Co-Founder, Gaming Society
Dr. Jordan
Metzl
Sports Medicine Physician
Shima
Oliaee
Producer, Pink Card
Cindy
Parlow Cone
President, U.S. Soccer
Julianna
Pena
UFC's Bantamweight #1 Contender
Susie
Piotrkowski
Vice President, espnW
Midge
Purce
Professional Soccer Player, United States Women's National Team (USWNT)
Jess
Smith
Head of Revenue, Angel City
Sarah
Spain
espnW Writer, ESPN Radio Host & TV Personality
Carolyn
Spellings
Chief of Evaluation, Research, and Accountability
Hannah
Storm
SportsCenter Anchor
Stef
Strack
Founder & CEO, Voice in Sport
Sarah
Spain
ESPN
espnW Writer, ESPN Radio Host & TV Personality
Sarah is a Peabody Award-winning radio host, TV personality and writer. She is one half of the "Spain and Fitz" radio show, airing weeknights on national ESPN radio, a writer for espnW.com, host of ESPN's "That's What She Said" podcast, a regular panelist on "Highly Questionable," "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz," "Around The Horn" and a "SportsCenter" reporter. Sarah grew up in Lake Forest, IL, where she was an All-Conference and All-Area basketball player and was All-State in both field hockey and track. She went on to attend Cornell University, where she was a heptathlete and co-captain of the Track & Field team. She graduated with distinction in all subjects and was a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and the Golden Key National Honor Society (top 15% of her class). She was a member of the 400 Club, honoring Varsity athletes with a semester GPA of at least 4.0 and she earned the Blanford Award for the Varsity Track & Field senior who scored the most career points. After college Sarah briefly worked at Intersport Television in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles. She spent six years in L.A., where she graduated from the Second City improv comedy conservatory, worked as an associate producer for "The Final Score" on Fox Sports Net and did freelance acting, sportswriting and hosting. Sarah returned to the Midwest in late 2008 to work for Chicago start-up website MouthpieceSports.com. She was a jack of all trades there, acting as a producer, writer and reporter. In 2009 Sarah switched gears, writing a popular sports blog on ChicagoNow.com, acting as a recurring guest-host of "ChicagoNow Radio" on WGN AM-720 and doing freelance writing. Sarah also did some sidelines reporting for the Big Ten Network and hosted the Coors Light Fantasy Players Minute, an online fantasy football show. In early 2010, Sarah helped launch WGN-TV's "Chicago's Best," joining co-hosts Ted Brunson and Brittney Payton to highlight the very best food, drinks and more in the Windy City. Getting paid to chow down and drink up is tough to beat, but when ESPN came calling, the offer was too good to pass up. Sarah started at Chicago's ESPN 1000 in early 2010 and has since expanded her reach at the company. When she's not watching, talking about or writing about sports, Sarah loves live music, great food and wine, improv comedy, board game parties, spending time with her husband, family and rescue pups, charity work and dominating rec league softball, volleyball, basketball and football games. Spain received a bachelor's degree in English in 2002 from Cornell University, where she competed as a heptathlete and served as the co-captain of the track & field team.
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