Convocation Speaker

Stephanie Ready

Television Basketball Analyst, Sideline Reporter, Play by Play and Host

Stephanie Ready serves currently as a live game basketball analyst for the WNBA on CBS Sports.

Ready served as a reporter for the NBA on TNT game coverage and as a host for NBA TV’s studio shows, including NBA Game Time and WNBA Weekly. Stephanie additionally works live game broadcasts in the lead Play by Play role. Stephanie joined Turner Sports full-time during the 2018-19 NBA season, working on TNT’s live VR game coverage. She began working with Turner Sports’ VR game coverage during the 2017-18 season.

Ready was the first full time female color analyst for an NBA team, 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. She completed her fourteenth 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. She also worked for ESPN and ABC during the 2006 WNBA Playoffs and Finals in the same capacity, and has also served as host on NBA-TV for their WNBA Finals post game show.

Ready joined the NBA team in Charlotte after serving as an assistant coach for the WNBA Washington Mystics. Prior to her appointment with the Mystics, she was the assistant coach of the Greenville Groove of the NBA G-League, making her the first woman to coach a men’s professional sports team. Ready 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 G-League, 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. She 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.

Ready and her husband have two children, James and Ivy.