A Candid Conversation with One of TV’s First Female Sportscasters: Anne Montgomery

Send us Fan Mail This week on Here’s What We Know, get ready to be inspired by the incredible journey of Anne Montgomery—a woman who’s rewritten the rules more than once and continues to live a life full of passion, purpose, and heart. Anne made history as one of the first women sportscasters on television, and is reported to be the only female high school football referee in the state of Arizona. But her story doesn’t stop there. From breaking barriers in sports broadcasting to shaping young minds in the classroom and becoming a foster mom, Ann’s story is all heart and hustle. Listen now! In This Episode: The Journey of a Trailblazer: How Anne paved the way for women in sports broadcasting Curiosity as a Superpower: Why staying curious leads to growth, at any stage of life Lessons from the Field: The surprising life skills sports teach us Women in Sports: What’s changed—and what still needs to Teaching & Transformation: How a shift to education gave Anne a new purpose Life’s Twists & Turns: The beauty of embracing the unexpected Storytelling with Heart: Anne’s passion for uncovering hidden histories through fiction This episode is sponsored by: Tranont Reed Animal Hospital (Be sure to tell them Gary sent you!) Bio: Anne Butler Montgomery has worked as a television sportscaster, newspaper and magazine writer, teacher, author, and amateur sports official. Her first TV job came at WRBL-TV in Columbus, Georgia, and led to positions at WROC-TV in Rochester, New York, KTSP-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, and ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut, where she anchored the Emmy and ACE award-winning SportsCenter. She finished her on-camera broadcasting career with a two-year stint as the studio host for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns. Montgomery was a freelance and/or staff reporter for six publications, writing sports, features, movie reviews, and archeological pieces. Her novels include Your Forgotten Sons, The Castle, A Light in the Desert, Wild Horses on the Salt, The Scent of Rain, and Wolf Catcher. Montgomery taught journalism and communication skills in a Title I high school for 20 years and was an amateur sports official for four decades, a time during which she called baseball, ice hockey, soccer, and basketball games and served as a high school football referee and crew chief. Montgomery is a foster mom to three sons and a daughter. When she can, she indulges in her passions: rock collecting, scuba diving, and playing her guitar. She splits her time between Phoenix, Arizona and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Website: https://annemontgomerywriter.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-montgomery-1b995b23/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abmontgomery/ Connect with Gary: Gary's Website Follow Gary on Instagram Gary's Tiktok Gary's Facebook Watch the episodes on YouTube Advertise on the Podcast Thank you for listening. Let us know what you think about this episode. Leave us a review!