Summer Sanders Biography
Summer Sanders is an American sports pundit, reporter, media personality, actress, and former Olympic champion swimmer from 1992. She is currently an analyst for the brand-new Pac-12 Network.
How old is Summer Sanders? – Age
She is 50 years old as of 13 October 2022. She was born in 1972 in Roseville, California, United States. Her real name is Summer Elisabeth Sanders.
Summer Sanders Wife
Sanders married Olympic swimmer Mark Henderson on July 4, 1997. In 2001, the couple divorced. Erik Schlopy, a World Cup skier who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics, married her in July 2005. Sanders and Schlopy are the parents of two children. She is an avid supporter of the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League; her husband is a native Western New Yorker whose cousin Todd Schlopy briefly played for the Bills in 1987.
Summer Sanders Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
Summer Sanders Swimming
Sanders could swim a lap of the pool by the age of three. She joined the Sugar Bears, an age-group swimming program in Roseville, California, coached by Mike Barsotti, Scott Winter, and Scott O’Conner, in 1976 because she wanted to be like her older brother Trevor. She then moved on to coach Ralph Thomas’ Sierra Aquatic Club, followed by Mike Hastings’ California Capital Aquatics.
When Sanders finished third in the 200-meter individual medley at the age of 15, she attracted a lot of attention from the swimming world and narrowly missed being selected for the 1988 Olympic Team. At the 1989 Pan Pacific Championships, her first international competition, she placed second to China’s Lin Li in the 200-individual-medley competition, earning her a silver medal. She beat Lin Li to win the 200-meter butterfly and the 400-meter individual medley at the Pan Pacific Championships in 1991.
Sanders signed up to swim at Stanford University in 1991 under the instruction of Hall of Fame coach Richard Quick. Sanders won eight NCAA National Championships during her two years of swimming at college, including the 4×100-yard medley relay, 200-yard butterfly, 200-yard individual medley, and 400-yard individual medley. She assisted her Cardinal team in winning the 1992 NCAA National Championships and won back-to-back titles as the NCAA Swimmer of the Year. She was honored as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year in 1991–92 with the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving.
Sanders won gold in the 200-meter butterfly, silver in the 200-meter individual medley, and bronze in the 400-meter individual medley at the 1991 World Championships in Perth, Australia. At the 1992 Olympic Trials, she became the first American woman to qualify for four individual events at one Olympics, surpassing Hall of Famer Shirley Babashoff (1976).
Sanders won four Olympic medals in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992: gold in the 200-meter butterfly with a time of 2:08.67, silver in the 200-meter individual medley, bronze in the 400-meter individual medley, and gold in the 400-meter medley relay.
Summer Sanders Career
While Sanders was still competing, he started working in television. She was a CBS Sports commentator for the NCAA Swimming Championships in 1992 and 1994. She was a commentator for NBC’s 1996 coverage of the Atlanta Olympics’ swimming competition. She worked for NBC as an Olympic analyst and host during the Olympics in 1996, 2000, 2002, and 2010. She also worked as a Today Show special contributor from 2000 to 2004 and was an on-site reporter for the network’s coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. In 2000, she also hosted Scholastic at the Olympic Games on MSNBC.
Summer was a sideline reporter for the WNBA and co-hosted NBA Inside Stuff for eight years with Ahmad Rashad (Lifetime, 1997–1999; NBC from 1999 to 2002), and from 2000 to 2002, a feature correspondent for the NBA on NBC. She was a reporter who covered tennis for the United States’ coverage of the U.S. Open in 2000 and 2001. From 2000 to 2006, she was co-host of CBS’ coverage of “Arthur Ashe Kid’s Day” at the Open.
Sanders has been a correspondent, co-host, and host on numerous shows. Features incorporate Nickelodeon, who named her their “chief” for the Scratch GAS direct in 1998, subsequent to being the principal female host of a Nickelodeon game show, Sort It Out (1997-1999), co-facilitating for MTV’s Sandblast in 1994, and facilitating the partnered series US Olympic Gold (2002-2005), Ask, Get and Arrangement (ESPN, 2003), NBA television’s Brain, Body and Soul (2003-2004)[6] and The Games Rundown (Fox Sports Net, 2004-2005). In 2006, Sanders also co-hosted the Fox reality show Skating With Celebrities.
Sanders started hosting Inside Out with Summer Sanders in 2009. The show, which is the primary unique creation of Widespread Games, appeared on December 23, 2009, and centers around top to bottom meetings and private profiles of eminent Olympic competitors. She also served as a general correspondent for Rachael Ray and Good Morning America.
She competed for charity on the third season of Celebrity Apprentice. She was one of eight celebrities who took part in the Food Network reality show Rachael vs. Guy in January 2012: Cook-Off of Celebrities. Sanders covered the 2012 Olympic Games in London for Yahoo!Sports and hosted the award-winning “Elite Athlete Workouts.” Her latest work in television is facilitating the game show Watchwords for HLN.