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American sports broadcaster and former softball player

Jessica Mendoza
ESPN's Jessica Mendoza chats with Bryce Harper on Gatorade All-Star Workout Day. (28377246300).jpg

Mendoza (left) with Bryce Harper in 2016
Personal information
Full name Jessica Ofelia Mendoza
Built-in (1980-11-xi) Nov eleven, 1980 (age 42)
Camarillo, California, United States
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 yard)
Spouse(s)

Adam Burks

​

(m. 2006)​
Sport
Country USA
Sport Softball
Position Outfielder
College squad Stanford University

Medal record

Women'southward softball
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team competition
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Team competition

Jessica Ofelia Mendoza (born November 11, 1980) is an American sportscaster and former softball player. Currently, she serves equally a color commentator and analyst for ESPN's coverage of Major League Baseball and Los Angeles Dodgers coverage on Spectrum SportsNet LA.[1] As a softball outfielder, Mendoza was a collegiate four-time Showtime Team All-American and two-fourth dimension Olympic medalist. Mendoza played from 1999 to 2002 at Stanford and was a member of the United states of america women'south national softball team from 2004 to 2010. She won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and a silverish medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She played professionally in National Pro Fastpitch and was named 2011 Player of the Year and currently ranks in the top 10 for career batting average and slugging percentage. She was an analyst on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball from 2016 to 2019.[ii] She was dropped from the Dominicus Nighttime Baseball broadcast after the 2019 flavor but remains an ESPN baseball annotator. Mendoza was named past fans and experts to the Greatest College Softball Team as an outfielder, one of merely three to attain the honor.[3]

Early life [edit]

Mendoza, a graduate of Adolfo Camarillo High School, was named the Los Angeles Times Role player of the Year in 1998. During her inferior and senior years, she was named Camarillo High School's Female Athlete of the Year. Mendoza was too a fellow member of the loftier schoolhouse basketball team and was the team MVP in her inferior and senior years.[4] [5]

Playing career [edit]

Stanford Cardinal [edit]

Mendoza began her career as a 1999 First Team All-American and All-Pac-10 honoree. Included with her recognition, she was named Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year. She broke the Cardinal records for season batting average and RBI totals while ranking superlative-10 for her hits.[iv]

On March vi, 1999, in defeating Illinois State, Mendoza had a single-game career loftier four hits off pitchers Corey Harris, Tammy Millian and Jamie Bagnall.[6] Later that calendar month, for the week of March 8, she was named National Fastpitch Coaches Association Actor of the Week after hitting .631 (12/nineteen) with xi RBIs, iv home runs, a triple and two doubles for a slugging percent of 1.473.[7]

The sophomore'south season saw her over again earn First Team citations for the NCAA Division I and the Pac-10.[8] She added conference Thespian of the Year to her drove and broke her own record for batting average with a then-school and career-all-time .474, which also led the NCAA.[9] She likewise claimed new records for hits, home runs, doubles, slugging, and stolen bases, which still rank top 10 for a season at Stanford.[10]

From February 29 through March 22, 2000, Mendoza went on a school-tape nineteen-consecutive-game hitting streak. She batted .561 (32/57) to back-trail 4 domicile runs and 15 RBIs, hitting out just once with a slugging of .842.

Mendoza connected her success for the Central with her third All-American and All-Pac-10 citations.[eleven] She posted top-10 season records in virtually every category, nonetheless currently ranking 2d in single-season home runs and stolen bases.[10]

Mendoza helped lead Stanford to their commencement-ever Women'southward College Earth Series appearance in 2001. The Cardinal were ousted on May 27 by the Arizona Wildcats despite wins over California Golden Bears and LSU Tigers.[12] Mendoza was named to the All-Tournament Team for hitting .250 with an RBI and a double.

For her terminal season, Mendoza earned Get-go Team citations for both briefing and the NCAA.[thirteen] With her fourth straight accolade from the NCAA, Mendoza joined aristocracy company as but the fifth histrion to achieve the feat then. That twelvemonth she too tied her dwelling house run record and ranked top-10 in nearly every other category.[10]

The week of March 4, she was named NFCA'due south Thespian of the Week for a third time. She had hit .647 (11/17) with a home run, v doubles, and 1.117 slugging. Afterward that season, on May eight with a 10–2 victory over the San Jose State Spartans, Mendoza collection in a career best half dozen RBIs, 4 coming off her 50th career home-run swing with Ballad Forbes pitching.[14]

Mendoza currently holds career records in average, hits, home runs, slugging, and runs. Her career doubles (ranked seventh in the NCAA all-fourth dimension), triples, RBIs and walks are still peak-10 records.[15] She was likewise named Pac-10 Player of the Week three times, a pinnacle 25 finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Yr, and the Speedline Invitational Tournament MVP.[xvi] [17] Mendoza graduated from Stanford with a master's caste in social sciences and education.[18]

Team Us [edit]

In 2004, Mendoza was a starting outfielder for Team U.s. at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Prior to the tournament, Mendoza striking .380 on the "Aiming For Athens" tour with 42 RBIs and x home runs.[nineteen] On Baronial 14, Mendoza had two hits and ii RBIs with a triple vs. Italy.[xx] She repeated her performance on August 19 against host Hellenic republic, with a double in that game.[21] Team USA won the gold medal on August 23, though Mendoza was close out by Commonwealth of australia.[22] Overall, she went 5/xx (.250) scoring five times herself and hitting in 5 RBIs with a .400 slugging.

In 2008, Mendoza was again an outfielder for Squad USA and led in almost every category on the "Bound four Beijing" Bout. She hit .495 with 107 RBIs and a .971 slugging.[23] At the Beijing Olympic Games, she collection in 4 RBIs vs. Chinese Taipei on August xiv.[24] In the finale, Mendoza was again shut out and her team won the silver medal, losing to Nihon on August 21.[25]

In add-on, Mendoza went directly onto the Us team direct out of college. In 2003 and 2007, she was a gold medalist at the Pan American Games. She likewise won the silver medal at both the World Cup and Japan Cup. In 2006, Jessica was named the USA Softball "Female Athlete of the Year." She played for Team U.s.a. in the World Cup once more in 2007, this time bringing home that golden medal. She went xi/18 with a double, three home runs, and 16 RBIs. Mendoza won the ISF Women's World Championship, hitting .500 with 5 home runs and 16 RBIs. In 2008, she was named to the Canada Cup All-Star Squad. Mendoza declined an invitation to play for the US in 2011 to focus on National Pro Fastpitch.[26]

National Pro Fastpitch [edit]

Mendoza joined the National Pro Fastpitch in 2005 with the Arizona Heat. She hitting a league all-time (though in limited playing time) .491 her rookie year.[27] After returning from motherhood leave and a role with Team USA, Mendoza signed with the USSSA Pride.[28] In her 2 seasons with the Pride, Mendoza hitting .284 and .377, respectively. The same 2 years, her teams made the Cowles Cup championship, winning the title in 2010. Mendoza was shut out against the Chicago Bandits' trio of Kristina Thorson, Nikki Nemitz, and Jessica Sallinger.[29] In the other finale, Mendoza was 2/iv with a double off Monica Abbott in a rematch with the Bandits, who ultimately won ten–three on August 21.[30] [31] Once again, Mendoza and the Pride made the Cowles Cup Championship simply lost to the Chicago Bandits. Mendoza was shut out but walked twice.[32]

Broadcasting career [edit]

ESPN [edit]

Mendoza works for ESPN and was a color analyst on Sunday Nighttime Baseball telecasts.[two] She too is an analyst for the Women'southward College Globe Series and has worked as a sideline reporter for ESPN College Football game coverage.

On June 30, 2014, Mendoza began working on ESPN's Baseball Tonight. She appeared on the Mon editions of the show.[33]

On June 16, 2015, Mendoza became the get-go female person broadcaster in the booth for ESPN'due south College World Series coverage with Karl Ravech and Kyle Peterson.[34] On Baronial 24, Mendoza was the first female commentator for a Major League Baseball in the history of ESPN, during a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks.[35] Six days afterwards, Mendoza filled in for suspended color commentator Brusque Schilling for the Cubs–Dodgers game on Sunday Night Baseball game. Cubs bullpen Jake Arrieta pitched a no-hitter in the game. John Kruk, Dan Shulman and Mendoza called the 2015 American League Wild Card Game on October 6, and Mendoza became the commencement female commentator in MLB postseason Television set history.[36] [37]

On January 13, 2016, ESPN announced that Mendoza would join the Sunday Dark Baseball game broadcast team full-time, with Shulman and Aaron Boone.[ii] On October 6, 2017, Mendoza commentated for the 2017 NLDS, her first MLB post-flavor series, on ESPN Radio with circulate partner Dave Flemming.[ commendation needed ]

On March 5, 2019, the New York Mets announced that Mendoza joined the order as a senior counselor to general managing director Brodie Van Wagenen. This led to conflict of interest concerns, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to block Mendoza from entering their clubhouse as a media member before Dodgers games broadcast by ESPN in the 2019 season.[38] The Dodgers had done the same with David Ross, who worked in the Chicago Cubs system while also commentating for ESPN.[39]

On Jan sixteen, 2020, she created controversy when she criticized quondam Houston Astros pitcher Mike Fiers for admitting to stealing signs during the squad'southward World Series title run in 2017. The controversy surrounded the fact that she felt that Fiers should have reported his concerns to MLB government rather than simply share them with a reporter. [forty] [41] [42] Mendoza subsequently backtracked and took to Twitter to clarify her comments.[43] Amid concerns almost a potential conflict of involvement over her Mets role and the controversy of the Fiers comments, she later resigned from her role equally Mets advisor and was dropped from Sunday Night Baseball, but signed a contract extension with ESPN on February seven, 2020, to remain a baseball game analyst with the network.[44] [45] [46]

In October 2020, Mendoza became the offset female Globe Series analyst on whatsoever national broadcast platform; she was on ESPN'southward radio platform.[47] In 2021, she was role of the broadcast squad for NBC during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.[48]

Los Angeles Dodgers [edit]

In March 2022, it was announced that Mendoza would join the Spectrum SportsNet LA network to provide commentary for Los Angeles Dodgers games. She was a part of a group of network additions that included Eric Karros, Adrián González, José Mota, and Dontrelle Willis.[1]

Personal life [edit]

The girl of Karen and Gil Mendoza, Mendoza has 1 brother and two sisters.[ citation needed ] Her male parent played football for four years for Fresno State Academy. Mendoza is married to Adam Burks, with whom she has two sons.[ commendation needed ] She is a second-generation Mexican-American, as stated in an ESPN article by Aimee Crawford published on October 11, 2011.[ citation needed ]

Mendoza is a trustee and by president of the Women's Sports Foundation. She is an athletic ambassador for Team Darfur and board fellow member of the National Didactics Association.[49]

In popular culture [edit]

For their first match of March 2019, the women of the United States women's national soccer team each wore a jersey with the name of a woman they were honoring on the dorsum; Andi Sullivan chose the name of Mendoza.[50]

Statistics [edit]

Stanford Key [edit]

YEAR G AB R H BA RBI Hr 3B 2B TB SLG BB And then SB SBA
1999 62 195 38 81 .415 57 9 2 13 125 .641 12 22 6 8
2000 63 198 57 94 .474 41 13 1 20 155 .783 15 13 20 25
2001 71 205 70 83 .405 46 fourteen 3 20 151 .736 32 23 31 35
2002 63 188 65 69 .367 44 fourteen three 17 134 .713 31 22 29 31
TOTALS 259 786 230 327 .416 188 50 9 70 565 .719 90 80 86 99

Team United states [edit]

Year AB R H BA RBI Hour 3B 2B TB SLG BB SO SB SBA
2004 149 49 54 .362 47 10 7 8 106 .711 11 25 v six
2008 230 99 110 .478 116 25 five 27 222 .965 26 26 8 10
TOTALS 379 148 164 .432 163 35 12 35 328 .865 37 51 13 16

NPF Arizona Heat & USSSA Pride [edit]

YEAR AB R H BA RBI Hour 3B 2B TB SLG BB SO SB
2005 59 23 29 .491 28 8 0 5 0 .983 11 4 10
2010 130 22 37 .284 28 vii one eight 68 .523 fourteen 38 4
2011 130 39 49 .377 35 10 1 5 86 .661 17 26 11
2012 95 30 32 .337 39 9 2 2 65 .684 xv 27 9
TOTALS 414 114 147 .355 130 34 4 20 277 .669 57 95 34

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Links [edit]

  • NCAA Division I softball career .400 batting average list
  • NCAA Division I softball career 50 abode runs list

External links [edit]

  • ESPN bio
  • Stanford bio
  • Interview on "Role Models" from CaptainU
  • Jessica Mendoza on Twitter
  • Jessica Mendoza at IMDb

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Mendoza

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