g their entry primarily through the Olympic movement and women's golf and tennis. Women commentators on Olympic sports were the earliest representatives of women in television sports journalism.
Women's on camera roles as sportscasters remained extremely limited until the 1970s when, in order to keep their licenses, stations reached out to hire women and minorities. Some of the early female broadcasters included tennis great Rosemary Casals, skier Suzy Chaffee, Carol Heiss Jenkins, swimmer Donna de Varona, soap opera veteran Lee Arthur, and Jane Chastain who started her television sports career two years after high school by predicting football results for an Atlanta television station.
There seem to be three primary ways in which women, and men, become involved as sports broadcasters. First, women may be selected for that position as they gradually rise through the ranks of television journalists or sports journalists on either radio or television. Second, women sports broadcasters frequently are se
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