Date of Birth : | Dec 11th, 1985 |
Age : | 38 Years old |
Net Worth : | USD 12.2 Million |
Married : | Christian Ponder (m. 2012) |
Height : | 5 Feet 6 Inch |
Samantha Sainte Claire Ponder AKA Samantha Ponder was
born on 11th December 1985 in Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America which makes Samantha Ponder age of 31 years old now. She is the daughter of Cindi Steele and Jerry Steele. She has two brothers namely Barron Steele and Jerrod Jefferson. She attended Central High School in Phoenix. Later, she studied at The King’s College in New York City. During her days in New York, she applied for a hostess job at ESPN Zone where she met Ben Keeper man who is a college football researcher and manage in ABC Sports Radio which helped her to get an internship at the network. Later, she worked as a researcher assistant with ABC TV on the college football studio show. After that, she completed her degree from Liberty University.
Career growth and Net worth
By profession, ponder is an American sportscaster. After her graduation, she was hired as a sideline reporter in Liberty Flames sports television network by the senior producer Bruce Carey. She worked in Liberty till 2009 and moved to Fox network as a sideline reporter in Fox Sports Net and Fox College Sports for Pac 10 and Big 12 college basketball and football games. On 7th July 2011, she got an opportunity to work as a sideline reporter in ESPN’s Longhorn Network. She was one among the first three talent hires including Kevin Dunn and Lowell Galindo in the newly created network. As she accepted her duty in the network, she was relocated to Austin, Texas. She has been the regular sideline reporter in Thursday Night College Football since 2012. In 2016, she was the host for the show BattleBots. According to the various sources of 2017, Samantha Ponder
salary is calculated to be more than 4.9 million dollars per year. She has been working since her college days so without a doubt, she is able to win millions of hearts too. Currently, Samantha Ponder
net worth is estimated to be somewhere around 12.2 million dollars.
Personal life and bio
Focusing on her personal life, she got
married with Christian Ponder on 17th December 2012 in Hudson, Wisconsin. Samantha Ponder
husband Christian is the then Minnesota Vikings quarterbacks. After marriage, she started working by her married name as a broadcast of the CapitalOne Bowl since 1st January 2013. The couple got blessed with a cute and beautiful
daughter on 2nd July 2014 and named her as Bowden Sanite-Clarie. Her name was inspired by the Christian’s coach Bobby Bowden at Florida State. More information on Samantha Ponder
bio can be extracted from the popular site Wikipedia and IMDb. She is also active socially in Twitter and Instagram.