Brooke Olzendam

Brooke Olzendam is a sportscaster who currently works for the Portland Trail Blazers as a part of their NBC Sports Northwest broadcast team. She previously worked with Fox Sports Indiana as a host of Pacers Live and sideline reporter for the Indiana Pacers. She also works for the Pac-12 Network.[1]

Sportscasting career

Olzendam is the sideline reporter and pregame/halftime/postgame host for Portland Trail Blazers telecasts and does football sideline reporting for the Pac-12 Network. She joined the Pacers after spending two seasons with the CBS College Sports Network as their primetime football sideline reporter. She has done sideline reporting for Comcast SportsNet Northwest (now NBC Sports Northwest) covering from professional baseball to horse racing and was the pregame/halftime/postgame host for the Portland Trail Blazers and was the sideline reporter for UCLA Bruins football telecasts on Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket.[2]

Early career

Olzendam started her career covering the Washington Huskies as the host of Huskies All-Access, performed sideline reporting for Huskies football and basketball, and served as a host of Runnin' with the Pac.

Personal

A native of Spokane, Washington, Olzendam graduated from Shadle Park High School and then the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University in 2003. Her father, Dave Olzendam is a member of the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, won 430 games in 31 seasons coaching at four high schools in Washington, notably Medical Lake outside of Spokane.[3] In 2011, she married Andy Collins, a former college football quarterback at University of Oregon and Occidental College and from Zillah, Washington, a town of 3,000 located in the Yakima Valley, a two-hour drive from Brooke's hometown. Collins died ten days after their wedding.[4] [5] She launched a campaign to raise money for the American Heart Association in honor of her late husband.[6] [7]

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References
  1. http://www.nba.com/pacers/brooke_olzendam_bio.html
  2. Theo Lawson. "Trail blazed: Washington State grad Brooke Olzendam found her calling on the hardwood. Now she's living out her dream". spokesman.com. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. Kerry Eggers. "OLZENDAM BOUNCES BACK". pamplinmedia.com. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. Farmer, Sam. "Andy Collins dies at 27; former Occidental College quarterback". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  5. Julia Moffitt. "Pacers reporter fights to overcome personal loss". wthr.com. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  6. Cathy Marshall. "Trail Blazers TV reporter Brooke Olzendam fundraising for heart health in memory of husband". kgw.com. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  7. "Brooke Hearts Your Heart". nba.com. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
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