Tracy Wolfson is an American

United States

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 sportscaster

Sportscaster

In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...

 for CBS Sports

CBS Sports

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. She is a University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 graduate with a degree in communications.

Early life and career

Wolfson formerly worked for MSG Network

MSG Network

The MSG Network, now shortened to simply MSG, is a regional cable television and radio network serving the Mid-Atlantic United States. It is focused on New York City sports teams...

 as an anchor and reporter as well as covering golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, college football and Arena Football

Arena football

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 for ESPN

Arena Football League on ESPN

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 from 2002-2003. Her on-air career began at WZBN in Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913...

 as a sports anchor. She also appeared as a reporter for Long Island News Tonight (LI News Tonight) a local Long Island college-run news station.

Career at CBS Sports

She has been the lead college football  sideline reporter since 2004. She is considered to be part of one of the best college football broadcast teams in the country. Additionally, she is an anchor on the CBS Sportsdesk as well a reporter for college basketball

College Basketball on CBS

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, auto racing

Auto racing

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, skiing

Skiing

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, ice skating

Ice skating

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, gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

, tennis

Tennis

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, track and field

Track and field

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 and rodeo

Rodeo

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. She covered all the U.S. Opens

U.S. Open (tennis)

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 and the Final Four

Final four

Final Four isa sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament, most notably NCAA Division I college basketball tournaments. The term usually refers to the four teams who compete in the two games of a single-elimination tournament's semi-final round...

 since 2004.

In 2009, she served as sideline reporter

Sideline reporter

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 for the 2009 Final Four and the Championship game for CBS Sports. She retained that role in 2010 Final Four and the Championship game, as well as those of 2011. Tracy's voice is also featured during sideline reports in NCAA College Hoops 2K8 on the Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 game consoles.

Accolades

In 2005, she was asked to be a part of Mississippi State University's College Sports Speaker series and has been a spokeswoman and emcee for several Foundation for Diabetes Research events since 2005. In 2004 she was named one of the "Best New Faces" of the NCAA tournament in the USA TODAY.

Personal

She currently resides in New York

New York City

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with her husband and her 10 year old son Drew.