Category: Broadcasters, Female Athletes, Medal Winners, Olympic Athletes
Highlights: Jessica Mendoza currently works as a baseball commentator for ESPN. During her celebrated softball career, she won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics and silver medal at the 2008 Olympics.
Travels From: New York
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Jessica Mendoza has worked for ESPN as a baseball analyst since 2014. She became the first female analyst in ESPN’s history to cover an MLB game when she was in the booth for a contest between the St. Louis Cardinals and Arizona Diamondbacks in August of 2015. Mendoza has also worked on Baseball Tonight, Sunday Night Baseball and ESPN’s coverage of the Women’s College World Series.
Prior to her broadcasting career, Mendoza enjoyed a highly successful collegiate and international softball career. She lettered for the Stanford Cardinal from 1999-2002, earning four consecutive All-American and first-team All-Pac-10 honors. In 2001, she helped lead the Cardinal to a spot in the World Series. From 2004-2010, Mendoza represented the United States on the women’s national team. She won a gold medal with the U.S. at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and a silver medal four years later at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. In 2020, Mendoza was named to ESPN’s Greatest All-Time Softball Team, joining other greats such as Leah O’Brien-Amico, Cat Osterman and Jennie Finch.
In 2005, Mendoza was signed by the Arizona Heat of National Pro Fastpitch and led the league with a batting average of .491 her rookie season. She later played for the USSSA Pride, winning a Cowles Cup Championship in 2010. Away from the diamond, Mendoza has served as president of the Women’s Sports Foundation, a member of the board of the National Education Foundation and Team Darfur ambassador.
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