Charissa Thompson

Charissa Thompson grew up in Seattle, Washington. She is a 2004 graduate of UC-Santa Barbara, where she interned at ABC affiliate KEYT-TV.
Thompson began her sports career with FSN Rocky Mountain (in Denver, Colorado) in the Human Resources Department. Thompson's first broadcasting job was covering the Colorado Rockies for FSN Rocky Mountain in the weekly news magazine show Rockies All Access. She also hosted WNBA Weekly and covered sports for the University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Baseball programs she has appeared on include The 2007 MLB All-Star Game Red Carpet Parade and The Baseball Report both on FSN.

Her duties include NFL sideline reporter for Fox, as well as for college football and college basketball games on Big Ten Network and Fox Sports Net. She also appears on the college football shows Friday Night Tailgate, on Big Ten Network; as well as BCS Breakdown and The BCS Show on FSN. She also co-hosted FSN's The Best Damn Sports Show Period alongside Chris Rose and John Salley. The show was canceled in July of 2009.
She has also hosted FSN's rodeo show Toughest Cowboy. She is also the co-host of Big Saturday Night on GSN and host of countdown show Big Ten's Best on Big Ten Network.
In 2009, she performed sideline reporting in the television show Shaq Vs..
In the fall of 2009, Charissa Thompson was named an ice-level reporter for NHL on Versus.
In 2010, Charissa appeared on the NFL Network's "NFL Now Updates". She covered the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, reporting for Yahoo! Sports. She was also recently added as a co-host for the Speed Network's "Fast Track To Fame" alongside NASCAR racer Michael Waltrip.
In June and July of 2010, Thompson covered the FIFA World Cup in South Africa for Yahoo! Sports. In January 2011, Charissa covered the BCS National Championship game for Yahoo! Sports. In February 2011, she covered the Super Bowl in Dallas, Texas, for Yahoo! Sports. Also in February, Charissa covered the NBA All-Star Game for Yahoo! Sports.

In January 2011, Charissa covered the NHL All-Star Game for Versus.
In February 2011, Versus dropped Charissa, as well as Lindsay Soto, from their ice-level reporting staff after the NBC-Comcast meger and were replaced by Pierre McGuire and Brian Engblom by forming the Inside the Glass.
Charissa Thompson currently lives in Hermosa Beach, CA.
In the fall of 2009, Thompson broke her foot and her ankle in a step aerobics class and had to miss most of the 2009 NFL and college football season due to surgery. Charissa enjoys yoga, running, cycling, and rhythmic gymnastics. [Source]