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Growing up in "Bobby Rahal country," LeGrand attended her first auto race in the 1980s: The Indianapolis 500.
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She went on to graduate from Clemson University with a degree in marketing. LeGrand would then earn a Master"s degree from the University of Georgia before going into broadcasting. She served as co-host of Speed News (now The Speed Report), a motorsports news program (30 minutes during motorsports season on Saturdays and 60 minutes on Sundays) produced by Speed Channel, with Drew Johnson.
She was on the show from 2004 to June 25, 2006.
During the first part of the 2004 National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Nextel Cup season, LeGrand also anchored the Speed television series National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Nation. Prior to her position at Speed Channel, LeGrand served as a correspondent with WSPA-television in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate that covers Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina (Greenville, South Carolina, Anderson, South Carolina, Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Asheville, North Carolina).
During the 1990s, WSPA-television assisted WHNS-television in their television news development. When the Fox affiliate finally got its own production staff, LeGrand was the only WSPA-television correspondent to remain with WHNS-television Foreign her efforts, LeGrand was promoted to the main female news anchor position in 1997, a position she would hold until her move to Speed Channel in 2004.
In the 2006/2007 academic year, LeGrand was an instructor of in Mass Communication in the Department of Fine Arts and Communication Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate in Spartanburg.
She returned to WSPA-television as 5:30 weeknight anchor in January 2007 and also covered education and health issues for the affiliate. In December 2010, LeGrand became Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Mary Black Health System, an integrated healthcare delivery system in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
