Marion Reimers

Marion Reimers (Mexico City, 1985) is a Mexican journalist, sports commentator, and television presenter currently working for Fox Sports Mexico (formerly FOX Sports Latin America - North Cone).[1] She has anchored the nightly sports news program Central Fox since 2008.[2] She is also founder of not for profit non-government organization Versus Mexico, which is devoted to bringing public awareness of harassment targeting Mexican female sports journalists, presenters and commentators.[3]

Marion Reimers
Born1985 (age 34–35)
Mexico City, Mexico
EducationMonterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
OccupationSportscaster
journalist
Television host
Years active2006 to present

Bio

She was born in Mexico City. She has played sports such as swimming, tennis, soccer, athletics since she was 4 years old. She was a national champion of karate. She studied art history and photography in Florence, Italy. She later decided to study Communication at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.[1]

Career

She began her career as an editor for Fox Sports Latin America North Cone in 2006. In 2007 she began her broadcasting career, first as a reporter and then as weekend anchor of Diario FOX Sports. In 2008 she became the main presenter of Central Fox sports news show which airs on FOX Sports Latin America North Cone and is simulcast in the United States on Fox Deportes. In 2012-2014, she moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina as part of an employment exchange with Fox Sports Latin America South Cone while she studied for her Master's degree. The same year she was awarded the "Female revelation in sports journalism" award by the Higher Institute of Sports Journalism in Buenos Aires.[1]

In 2015, Reimers was nominated for a Sports Emmy Award in the United States, thus becoming the first Mexico-based sports journalist to be considered for this award.[1][4] In 2017, Reimers along with Jimena Sánchez and Verónica Rodriguez founded Versus Mexico, a not-for-profit non-government organization devoted to addressing, criticizing and tackling harassment targeting Mexican female sports journalists, presenters and commentators.[5] The organization launched with a viral video on YouTube[6] showing how they wake up each morning to a string of public harmful messages in their social media accounts by means of trolling, hate speech, death threats, verbal abuse, sexist remarks, misogynistic and sexist commentaries, all just for being women working in sports.[7][8]

In June 2019, she became the first Hispanic woman ever to broadcast the UEFA Champions League Final match on site when she called the match as match analyst/co-commentator on FOX Sports Latin America North Cone.[9]

Reimers began calling Liga MX Femenil matches on FOX Sports Dos in Mexico as match analyst/co-commentator when the league was launched in July 2017. She switched to the lead play-by-play announcer position in July 2019.

Coverage

Reimers has covered the following events for Fox Sports Mexico:

Awards
  • 2015 – Sports Emmy nomination
  • 2012 – Female Sports Reporter Award in Argentina
  • 2008 – Medal of Merit in Communications and Journalism in Mexico.
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References
  1. "Marion Reimers | Fox Sports PressPass". Fox Sports PressPass. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  2. México, El Universal. "Marion Reimers, mujer que hace historia (Marion Reimers, woman who makes history)". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  3. "Video: Marion Reimers y Jimena Sánchez exhiben acoso en redes (Marion Reimers and Jimena Sánchez exhibit harassment in social media)". Excélsior (in Spanish). 15 February 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  4. Villegas Gama, Karla. "Marion Reimers, de sports junkie a nominada al Emmy (Marion Reimers: from sports junkie to Emmy nominate)". FOX Deportes (US) website (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  5. Daen, Arturo. "Conductoras y periodistas deportivas vs. la discriminación (Presenters and sports journalists vs. discrimination)". animalpolitico.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  6. Versus AC (11 February 2017), Versus México, por la igualdad de género, retrieved 26 November 2017
  7. "Con un video, conductoras deportivas denuncian acoso sexual (With a video, sports conductors denounce sexual harassment)". Televisa News (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  8. "ONG expone acoso sexual a conductoras de Fox Sports (non-profit organization exposes sexual harassment to Fox Sports presenters)" (in Spanish). 15 February 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  9. Salmerón, Cristina. "Marion Reimers, la primera mujer en narrar la final de Champions League". https://www.mexico.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 July 2019. External link in |website= (help)
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