Warren Elected to National Hall of Fame

Tracy Warren, a standout softball player and 1987 broadcast communications graduate of the College, was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame on July 6.

Warren played third base and led the Lions’ softball squads to a three-year record of 137-17, including national finishes of second (1985), third (1986) and first (1987) during her career. With a lifetime batting average of .345, she was a two-time national Softball Coaches Association All-American (1986 and 1987) and a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-America honoree. She was also named both the New Jersey and Trenton State College Female Athlete of the Year in 1987 and was later inducted into the College’s Alumni-Athletic Hall of Fame.

Warren, originally from Marlton, NJ, graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Broadcast Communications and later earned a master of journalism at Temple University in 1989 as an NCAA post-graduate scholarship recipient.

Warren later became the first female sports reporter at television stations in Philadelphia and Grand Rapids, MI, and was a member of the first all-female television broadcast team for the Colorado Silver Bullets baseball team for the women’s American Basketball League. She also won Emmy Awards for a feature she did on marketing Michael Jordan and her work on the Philadelphia 76ers pre-game show.

Warren eventually earned a J.D. from Notre Dame and passed the Maryland bar exam, working at a law firm there while traveling around the country broadcasting softball games on weekends. She was an on-air for NBC’s broadcasts of the 10 U.S. softball games at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 and still works with ESPN, Fox Sports, College Sports Television and other networks, broadcasting mostly women’s collegiate and professional basketball, softball and golf.

In 2004 Warren joined the law firm of Wilson Petty Kosmo & Turner LLP in San Diego, where she focuses on labor and employment law. She has additionally represented professional and collegiate coaches, sports executives, and television broadcasters in contract matters.

Warren currently serves as an Executive Director for the San Diego International Sports Council and has volunteered her services to various organizations, such as the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, Notre Dame Law School students, and the University of San Diego. Additionally, Warren has worked with organizations outside of the sports and legal world, assisting the Notre Dame Alumni Club’s Feed the Homeless program and Habitat for Humanity in Philadelphia and Palo Alto, CA.