Stephanie Ready - NBA Basketball Analyst, TV Host, Sideline Reporter, Spokesperson

Stephanie Ready is the first full time female color analyst for an NBA team. Ready is responsible for providing in-depth coverage and basketball expertise during the NBA season on Fox Sports South East as apart of a three-person booth. Stephanie Ready has completed her twelfth season as apart of the Hornets/Bobcats television broadcast team. In addition to her work in the booth, on the sidelines and at the desk, Ready supplies feature and human interest pieces on players, coaches and front office personnel for pregame, halftime and postgame shows. Ready has served as a sideline reporter for TNT’s coverage of the NBA Playoffs, and for ESPN during the women’s NCAA basketball tournament. Ready also worked for ESPN and ABC during the 2006 WNBA Playoffs and Finals in the same capacity. Ready has also served as host on NBA-TV for their WNBA Finals post game show.

Stephanie Ready joined the NBA team in Charlotte after serving as an assistant coach for the Washington Mystics of the WNBA. Prior to her appointment with the Mystics, she was the assistant coach of the Greenville Groove of the NBA D-League, making her the first woman to coach a men’s professional sports team. Stephanie also helped guide the team to the league’s inaugural championship in 2002. During her two seasons in Greenville, she was 2-0 when assuming duties of the Head Coach.

Prior to her stint in the D-League, Stephanie Ready spent three seasons as the Head Volleyball Coach and two seasons as an assistant coach for the men’s basketball program at Coppin State University. Stephanie was one of the youngest Division I Head coaches in the country, and the first female to hold the position of full-time recruiting assistant on an NCAA Division I men’s basketball staff. A four-year starter on the women’s basketball team at Coppin State, she ended her collegiate career among the school’s all-time top 10 performers in points, rebounds, assists and steals. Ready graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology. Stephanie and her husband Perry have two children, James and Ivy.