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University of Missouri.
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Kristen Budden
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Budden is known for reporting on the San Diego Padres in 2014 as well as a current sideline reporter for college football games telecast on Fox. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 9, 1984, Budden moved with her family at age 10 to Dallas, Texas. As a teenager, she shadowed her godfather at his anchor job at WFAA. She went on to graduate with honors from University of Missouri"s School of Journalism with a broadcast journalism degree.
Budden"s first job was as a weekend sports anchor at WCAV in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Within 18 months, she moved to WBIR in Knoxville, Tennessee, to work as both a sports anchor and reporter covering the Tennessee Volunteers" athletics programs. Over the course of six years, Budden covered the men"s and women"s National Collegiate Athletic Association and Securities and Exchange Commission basketball tournaments, the 2012 Summer Olympics and Pat Summitt"s retirement.
In August 2013, Budden moved to San Diego, California, after accepting a position with Fox Sports. She was, at first, a part of the Fox NFL broadcast crew.
In March 2014, she became the sideline reporter for the Padres broadcasts and a fill-in host for the team"s preand post-game shows.
Prior to the 2014 National Collegiate Athletic Association college football season, she began coverage, mainly as a sideline reporter, for Fox Sports.
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She attended Trinity Christian Academy, in the Dallas suburb of Addison, where she was a two-time state champion with the school"s tennis team At WBIR, Budden received the Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters" award for Best Breaking Sports News and posted four consecutive second-place finishes in the Best Sports Feature category.
