Career
After college, she began to work for the Rocky Mountain News and served as their Washington, District of Columbia correspondent until 1996 and continued at the paper until it closed in 2009. In the early 1990s, Cable News Network began broadcasting the National Spelling Bee and invited her to be a commentator. ESPN2 began broadcasting the contest in 1994, and McCrimmon became their commentator until 2005.
She made a cameo appearance in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee.
