Sports Broadcaster

Katie is a dynamic, bubbly broadcaster and journalist working for ITV, Sky Sports, Amazon Prime, talkSPORT, Stan Sport & Optus.
Previous experience with BBC, IMG, DAZN, FIFA & BT Sport.

You’ll often see her traveling around all 92 football clubs in England for Soccer Saturday on Sky Sports. Plus interviewing Premier League footballers and managers for Sky Sports and Amazon, or ITV when it’s FA Cup weekends. If she’s not pitchside or on a windy gantry, she presents from a nice, warm studio breaking stories for Sky Sports News, including the Qatar World Cup final.

As a former international athlete, Katie played England Hockey for five years before moving into sports broadcasting.

Recent Work

  • Katie loves presenting on ITV and being pitchside for the Women’s World Cup final was very special. She’s also presented the Arnold Clark Cup and the EFL Highlights show. Katie is ITV’s lead England Reporter for the Lionesses. Within the role, she’s in charge of their matchday reporting, home and abroad, creates in depth features and provides team updates from inside the England camp.

    Katie’s now covered England’s 2023 World Cup, the UEFA Nations League, Arnold Clark Cup and the Euros (Sky Sports) for the Lionesses.

    Katie loves a good story, so when the FA Cup comes knocking, it’s one of her favourite events to cover. From non-league to Premier League, Katie encapsulates the romance of the FA Cup and weaves that into her storytelling for features, interviews and pitchside reporting all the way until the FA Cup final at Wembley.

  • Katie is a regular face on Sky Sports. Whether it’s having a laugh with Jeff Stelling on Soccer Saturday - now Simon Thomas - to presenting pitchside with guests at top flight grounds, Katie enjoys reporting on all the stories from the EFL. Plus, speaking one-on-one with managers and players after historic, euphoric or heartbreaking moments in the Premier League.

    Katie’s dulcet tones can also be heard describing the thrills and spills of the EFL through Sky’s League 1 & League 2 Goals Show.

  • Katie really enjoys being part of Prime Video’s Premier League coverage as their pitchside reporter.

    From interviewing Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Antonio Conte to name a few. She uses her journalistic nouse to deliver strong storylines, ask the tough questions, whilst in the same breath, being able to switch and turn on her infectious enthusiasm to create entertaining interviews whether that’s with players or fans for the programme.

  • The BBC has brought Katie many incredible memories.

    As a former international athlete, presenting on the Tokyo Olympics will forever stay with her. She presented on the Red Button, bouncing around 33 sports in her fun, entertaining manner.

    The same can be said for her role covering Wimbledon 2021 and the Beijing Winter Olympics on the BBC. For the Commonwealth Games, Katie brought her expertise to brighten up the stories for those watching at home.

    Katie’s first TV appearances started with BBC Sports News.

    Anchoring programmes and bulletins on BBC One, BBC News Channel, and BBC World broadcasting to hundreds of millions of viewers. When the Tokyo Olympics were postponed in 2020, Katie broke the news to the nation in a calm, composed but authoritative manner. From global stories such as Manchester City’s UEFA ban, Deadline Day to Premier League manager sackings.

    Before that, Katie was reporting from centre court at Eastbourne tennis, presenting on Euro 2020 and the Champions League Final for BBC Sport News. Plus, bringing her insight, energy, and enthusiasm every weekend as the goals fly in across the country with previous stints at BBC Sport’s Final Score and BT Sport.

Katie loves working on major tournaments.

The summer of 2023 was a particular highlight. She presented pitchside at the Women’s World Cup final for England v Spain in Australia alongside the panel of Ian Wright, Emma Hayes & Jill Scott. In the build up to the final, Katie was ITV’s lead England Reporter for the duration of tournament, delivering feature interviews, matchday reporting and regular team updates from camp.

Six months prior, Katie was pitchside presenting for FIFA at the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

Katie also really enjoyed being part of the Sky Sports News team covering the memorable Women’s Euros in 2022.

Away from football, Katie’s also presented on the Tokyo Olympics, Beijing Winter Olympics, Wimbledon & Commonwealth Games for the BBC’s Red Button coverage.

 

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