Career
She is notable as being the first woman in history to call an Australian Football League match on television which is seen by many as a landmark for women in Australian media for such a male dominated sport. Underwood is co-host of The Back Page on Fox Sports and appears regularly on the American Broadcasting Company"s Offsiders program She hosts and commentates the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Netball Championship on Fox Sports and has her own program Breaking Ground, which features in-depth interviews with some of Australia"s top female athletes.
Underwood is also part of the American Broadcasting Company Radio Grandstand team, calling American Federation of Labor-Congress games and tennis.
Underwood"s work began in radio, starting out on a local radio station at Murray Bridge, South Australia. She moved to Melbourne and worked at Geelong station K-Rock before moving to 3AW as a sports reporter and American Federation of Labor-Congress match day reporter.
There she joined Rex Hunt commentating a match among much media fanfare. Underwood"s move into television began when she became a reporter for Ten News and Sports Tonight.
During the Network Ten broadcast of the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters Cup between Geelong and the Adelaide Crows, Underwood made history becoming the first woman to call an American Federation of Labor-Congress match on television, joining Tim Lane in commentary.
She called her first American Federation of Labor-Congress premiership season match on 18 July 2009 – the Round 16 match between Geelong and Melbourne at Kardinia Park with Anthony Hudson. Underwood commentated for matches for Network Ten throughout 2009-2010, both in the commentary box and at ground level through until the end of 2011. Underwood continued to commentate netball and work as a sports reporter for Ten until taking a voluntary redundancy in December 2012.
They have a daughter.
