Kate Beirness
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Kate Beirness (/bərˈnɛs/ bər-NESS; born March 8, 1984) is a Canadian television sportscaster, currently working as a host for SportsCentre on TSN.
Career
During her first year hosting SportsCentre, Beirness often worked with Bryan Mudryk on the weekend Sportscentre, and continued to do so through much of 2013.[1] In October 2013, Beirness and new co-host Darren Dutchyshen took over the late night and morning loop spots on TSN, replacing the departing Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole.[2] The pair had worked together during Jennifer Hedger's maternity leave in 2011. Dutchyshen would move back to the nightly Sportscentre with Hedger, and was replaced by Natasha Staniszewski. Beirness and Staniszewski formed Sportscentre's first ever female anchor team.[3]
Beirness currently hosts
Prior to joining TSN, Kate worked for
Beirness founded and hosts Her Mark summit, an annual one day event aimed at empowering the next generation of Canadian female leaders. The first summit was held on July 8, 2017 at BMO Field Toronto, ON[6]
Personal life
Beirness was born and raised in
References
- ^ "TSN Anchors Rod Smith and Kate Beirness Join the 2013 Kraft Celebration Tour". newswire.ca. TSN. May 31, 2013.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Sean (October 1, 2013). "Kate Beirness, Darren Dutchyshen have big shoes to fill on TSN". National Post.
- ^ Hill, Michael (February 8, 2016). "Kate Beirness and Natasha Staniszewski – The SportsCentre Sisterhood". mycitylife.ca. City Life.
- ^ a b "Kate Beirness". TSN.ca.
- ^ "Whitby's Kate Beirness welcomed into every sports fan's home". Retrieved 2019-05-29.
- ^ "TSN's Kate Beirness Launches First-Ever HER MARK Summit on July 8 to Empower the Next Generation of Canadian Female Leaders – Bell Media". Retrieved 2019-03-11.