Melissa Stark

About

Melissa Zoey Stark (born November 11, 1973) is an American television personality and sportscaster, best known as the current sideline reporter for NBC Sunday Night Football and the former sideline reporter for Monday Night Football.
Formerly a reporter for the NFL Network, she spent five seasons as host of NFL 360. She previously worked with NBC, primarily at its MSNBC subsidiary and as a correspondent for NBC’s The Today Show. In the summer of 2008, she anchored MSNBC’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Prior to NBC, she was a reporter for ESPN.
Stark has been described as a “trailblazer” who led to increased opportunities for women in sportscasting, which had fewer women broadcasters at the beginning of her career.

Stark was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Walter Stark, an eye surgeon at the Wilmer Eye Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Her interest in sports began during her childhood in Baltimore, when she attended Baltimore Colts games with her father, who treated players for eye injuries. She graduated from the Roland Park Country School, a women’s prep school in Baltimore, where she was class valedictorian.
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