Career
Prior to taking that position Zelasko had a relatively lengthy career working for Fox Sports as a reporter and analyst for various programs, as well as reporting for MLB Network, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and as the court reporter on Judge Joe Brown. Early life and career
Zelasko started her broadcasting career during her college days at San Diego State University doing metro traffic reports and then hosting a talk show on KCEO-Department of Administration and Management radio. Her television career began at KDCI-television News in San Diego in 1993 anchoring the weekend newscasts.
Early in her career, Zelasko co-hosted the San Diego Padres pre-game show for Prime Sports West, a regional sports network in Southern California (now Fox Sports Net West).
While working as an assignment reporter for the network, she covered a variety of sports including the NFL, National Hockey League, college basketball and auto racing. Fox Sports
Zelasko was hired by Fox Sports in 1996 as part of the original broadcast team anchoring the newly formed Fox Sports Net"s National Sports Report, as well as a sideline reporter for Fox NFL Sunday.
In February 2001, Zelasko joined National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing on Fox as a pit reporter. Fox network cancelled the Major League Baseball pre-game show (as a cost-cutting measure) following the 2008 season.
MLB Network and Los Angeles Dodgers
In April 2009, Zelasko took on multiple roles including special assignments for the MLB Tonight, on the MLB Network.
She made her MLB play-by-play debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 20, 2009, making her the first woman to do play-by-play for a Dodgers game. Zelasko worked alongside former Dodger Mark Sweeney, who is serving as the analyst. Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
In May 2013, Zelasko began covering the National Collegiate Athletic Association Softball tournament for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Filmwork
In 1997, she had a guest role in the fourth season finale of the Columbia Broadcasting System television series Diagnosis: Murder.
In 2002, she had a cameo as an Anchorwoman in the Swiss motion picture Birdseye, played a reporter in Fever Pitch.
From 2011–2013, she filled the role of court reporter on Judge Joe Brown. Personal
In 1998, Zelasko married Curt Sandoval, a sports anchor and reporter for American Broadcasting Company-owned KABC-television in Los Angeles and a triathlete who completed the Ironman in Hawaii.
On December 30, 2007, Fox announced that Zelasko was being treated for thyroid cancer. She was still scheduled to host Fox"s on-site pregame show, and serve as a sideline reporter on Fox"s Cotton Bowl Classic and Orange Bowl broadcasts.
Fox spokesman Dan Bell said: "She"ll be out for as long as her treatment takes.
We can"t wait to have her back in her MLB studio chair in April.".