WIN for Columbia to Host 23rd Annual WIN Awards Luncheon Feb. 18
1/24/2020 12:51:00 PM | General
ESPN’s Holly Rowe To Deliver Keynote Address.
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Women's Intersport Network (WIN) for Columbia will hold its 23rd annual WIN Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at the Southwell Complex on the Columbia College campus. ESPN reporter and play-by-play announcer Holly Rowe will serve as the event's keynote speaker, which starts at 11:30 a.m.
Each year, WIN for Columbia awards female athletes with connections to the Columbia community for their excellence in their respective sport and their involvement within the community. The awards luncheon will take place in conjunction with National Girls & Women in Sports Day.
Awards will recognize female Youth Athlete of the Year, High School Sportswoman of the Year, Collegiate Sportswoman of the Year, Gladys Stankowski Sportswoman of the Year, Coach of the Year and Mentor of the Year, as well as an Inspiration Award recipient. Winners are voted on by WIN members, chosen from finalists selected by the WIN board of directors following nominations received from the public.
Before this year's awards recipients are announced, guests will get a chance to hear from the highly respected and talented Rowe, who has been one of ESPN's most versatile announcers for more than two decades. Covering a wide variety sports for ESPN, Rowe joined the network full time in August 1998 after appearing on select ESPN telecasts in 1997 and ABC Sports from 1995-96. She is one of the lead reporters on ESPN Saturday Night Prime College Football, Big Monday College Basketball, Women's Final Four, Women's College World Series, NCAA Volleyball Indoor and Beach National Championships and the lead WNBA announce team.
Additionally Rowe's feature reporting and storytelling is showcased on many ESPN platforms, and her work as a producer and writer of documentaries and features that have aired on KBYU TV, ESPN and FOX 13 TV in Salt Lake City, has been nominated for several Emmy Awards.
She has continued her outstanding work through an ongoing three-year cancer battle. Rowe graduated from the University of Utah with a broadcast journalism degree. While at Utah, she was a sportswriter for the Daily Utah Chronicle and the Davis County Clipper, and anchored the campus TV station news.
For more information please visit www.winforcolumbia.com and direct all questions to WIN president Deborah Marshall via email at win4columbia@gmail.com.
