Background
McHenry was born in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey.
journalist association football player
McHenry was born in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey.
After graduating from Satellite High School in Satellite Beach, Florida in 2004, where she was a member of the soccer team with future professional player Ashlyn Harris, McHenry attended Stetson University and played on the Hatters soccer team as a midfielder for the 2004 season.
After graduating magna cum laude in 2007 from Stetson, McHenry went on to Northwestern University"s Medill School of Journalism. At Medill, McHenry started covering stories in Chicago, Illinois. After two weeks at Fox Sports San Diego as a dugout reporter on the San Diego Padres telecasts, she returned to American Broadcasting Company 7.
In March 2014, she left American Broadcasting Company 7 to join Entertainment and Sports Programming Network as a Washington, District of Columbia-based bureau reporter.
She served as correspondent for various shows including SportsCenter, Outside the Lincolnshire, NFL Live and Baseball Tonight. Notable athletes interviewed by McHenry include the 2014 NFL Draft #3 pick Blake Bortles and National Hockey League star Sidney Crosby.
On April 16, 2015, a sequence of video segments of McHenry verbally abusing a tow lot employee was posted on LiveLeak. In the video, McHenry announces that she is a television reporter, makes numerous disparaging remarks about the employee"s appearance, makes fun of the employee"s job, ridicules what she thinks is the employee"s level of education, and threatens to sue.
"Maybe if I was missing some teeth they would hire me, huh?" she asks.
McHenry later apologized on Twitter, writing: "In an intense and stressful moment, I allowed my emotions to get the best of me and said some insulting and regrettable things. I am so sorry for my actions and will learn from this mistake." In response to the incident, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network suspended McHenry from the network for one week. A day later, the towing company released a statement saying they did not want to see Britt McHenry suspended or terminated as a result of her comments.