Education
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Ponder attended Central High School in Phoenix. Ponder first attended The King"s College in New York City after high school.
Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Ponder attended Central High School in Phoenix. Ponder first attended The King"s College in New York City after high school.
Ponder is best known as the replacement for Erin Andrews on College GameDay Saturdays at 10 Department of Administration and Management ET on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, as well as co-host of the Saturday 9 Department of Administration and Management ET edition on ESPNU. In addition to her duties on College Gameday, Ponder has been the regular sideline reporter for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s Thursday Night College Football with Rece Davis, Jesse Palmer, and David Pollack since August 2012, replacing Jenn Brown on the sidelines. Ponder also appears on the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network-owned Texas-oriented regional network Longhorn Network. While in New York City, she applied for a hostess job at Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Zone where she met Ben Keeperman, a college football researcher and manager with American Broadcasting Company Sports Radio and that led to an internship at the network which in turn led to a researcher-assistant job with American Broadcasting Company-television on the college football studio show.
She transferred to Liberty University after Liberty"s Senior
Sports Producer Bruce Carey offered her a job as sideline reporter for the Liberty Flames sports television network. After leaving Liberty in 2009, she worked for Fox Sports Net and Fox College Sports as a sideline reporter for Pac-10 and Big 12 college basketball and football games.
On July 7, 2011, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s Longhorn Network announced that it had hired Ponder as a sideline reporter. Ponder, along with Kevin Dunn and Lowell Galindo, were the newly created network"s first three talent hires.
After accepting her position with the Longhorn Network, Ponder relocated to Austin, Texas.
In 2014, the couple became parents of a daughter, Bowden Sainte-Claire, named after Bobby Bowden, Christian"s coach at Florida State.