Lisa Salters to Headline Penn State Forum Speaker Series

Penn State alumna Lisa Salters, a sideline reporter for two of ESPN’s biggest sports properties – the NFL’s ”Monday Night Football” and NBA games on ESPN and ABC — will be the featured speaker in the final program of the 2023-2204 Penn State Forum speaker series.

Salters, a 1988 broadcast journalism graduate and former Penn State basketball player, will discuss her career journey on Friday, March 29, in Presidents Hall of the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. The event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The forum series is modeled after the National Press Club Speaker Series and includes a buffet-style luncheon and Salters’ presentation, followed by audience questions. It is open to faculty, staff, students and the general public. Tickets for the Penn State Forum are still available, at $25 each, or $250 for a table of 10, and include. To purchase tickets and register, go to https://web.cvent.com/event/d3e1717f-554b-4583-b3df-d73ef1f4f2d7/summary

Salters has served as the commencement speaker for the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. She also has been the Grand Marshal of Penn State’s Homecoming.

Salters is a versatile, accomplished reporter with more than three decades of experience. In addition to her work covering the NFL and NBA, she is a co-host of ESPN’s award-winning ”E:60″ film and documentary series. In May 2023, at the 44th Annual Sports Emmy Awards, Salters won her first Sports Emmy in the “Outstanding Personality/Reporter” category.

Salters was named the sideline reporter for ”Monday Night Football” in April 2012 and is now the longest-tenured sideline reporter in MNF history. She contributes to weekly game telecasts as well as NFL playoff games. Salters has been part of NBA coverage on ESPN and ABC since 2005. Her role includes the high-profile NBA Saturday Primetime and NBA Sunday Showcase games.

Salters originally joined ESPN as a general assignment reporter in March 2000. Previously, Salters worked for ABC News from 1995-2000. Based in Los Angeles, she was named the first West Coast correspondent for the ABC affiliate news service, NewsOne, in February 1995. She covered the O.J. Simpson civil and criminal trials, the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and the crash of TWA flight 800, among other major stories for ”World News Tonight” with Peter Jennings and other ABC News outlets. Earlier in her career, Salters served as a general assignment reporter for WBAL-TV in Baltimore.