Beth Mowins '90

Beth Mowins is a pioneering play-by-play broadcaster with a career spanning more than three decades. She has covered a wide array of sports for ESPN and CBS, including men’s and women’s college basketball and football, the Women’s College World Series, NCAA championships in softball, volleyball, and soccer, and the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany. In 2017, Mowins made history as the first woman in 30 years to call a nationally televised NFL game, leading ESPN’s Monday Night Football doubleheader between the Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos. She also works NFL preseason games for the Oakland Raiders and was part of the first all-female broadcast crew to call a Chicago Cubs game in 2024.

Mowins’ excellence has earned numerous honors, including the Marty Glickman Award for Leadership in Sports Media, the CoSIDA Jake Wade Award, and the NFCA Melinda Fischer Distinguished Service Award.

A native of North Syracuse, New York, Mowins is a 1989 Lafayette College graduate, where she captained the basketball team, became a three-time all-conference selection, scored over 1,000 points, and still holds the school record for career assists. Mowins launched her broadcasting career at Syracuse University, where she pursued a master’s degree in broadcast journalism at the Newhouse School and gained hands-on experience calling games at WAER.