Quick Facts
Biography
Brooke Olzendam is a sportscaster who currently works for the Portland Trail Blazers as a part of their NBC Sports Northwest broadcast team. She previously worked with Fox Sports Indiana as a host of Pacers Live and sideline reporter for the Indiana Pacers. She also works for the Pac-12 Network.
Sportscasting career
Olzendam is the sideline reporter and pregame/halftime/postgame host for Portland Trail Blazers telecasts and does football sideline reporting for the Pac-12 Network. She joined the Pacers after spending two seasons with the CBS College Sports Network as their primetime football sideline reporter. She has done sideline reporting for Comcast SportsNet Northwest (now NBC Sports Northwest) covering from professional baseball to horse racing and was the pregame/halftime/postgame host for the Portland Trail Blazers and was the sideline reporter for UCLA Bruins football telecasts on Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket.
Early career
Olzendam started her career covering the Washington Huskies as the host of Huskies All-Access, performed sideline reporting for Huskies football and basketball, and served as a host of Runnin' with the Pac.
Personal
A native of Spokane, Washington, Olzendam graduated from the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University.In 2011, she married Andy Collins, a former college football quarterback at Occidental College. Collins died ten days after their wedding.