Cari Champion is an American journalist and television personality, having worked for many ESPN-related programming, as well as for the Tennis channel. If you consider internships, she also worked for CNN! Still, Champion’s story shows that one break can sometimes be all that you need to start a career, with her getting job after job with ESPN programming. Let’s take a look at her life and career over the years, starting with her net worth.
Cari Champion Net Worth: $1 Million
Cari Champion’s net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. Let’s take a look at her career over the years just to see how she came so far.
The Early Years
Champion was born in and raised in Pasadena, California, She attended UCLA, majoring in English and minoring in mass communications; hoping to pursue work as a journalist, she also wrote for the Daily Bruin and earned an internship at CNN. Champion later started her broadcasting career with local television stations, working for stations in West Virginia, California, Georgia and Florida.
2009-2011
In 2009, Champion joined the Tennis Channel network. For this job, she was reportedly hired out of fifty candidates. She became interested in the sport by following the careers of Serena and Venus Williams. During this time, she also worked for the Starz network, working as an entertainment reporter for shows like The Insider and Hollywood 411.
2012-Present
Champion joined the ESPN network in 2012 when she served as the new host of ESPN2’s First Take, a live debate show, serving as a debate monitor. Branching out into the network’s other programs, she hosted an interview with Cam Newton for E:60. By 2015, she was later promoted to the position of anchor for SportsCenter. By 2018, she became the host of ESPN’s SportsNation, with co-hosts LZ Granderson and Marcellus Wiley.