Georgina Ruiz Sandoval

Commentator

Commentator & Analyst

Sandoval has taken on various roles since joining ESPN in 1997.  From October 1997 to March 1999, she worked for ESPN DOS project events and as a coordinator for college football, NHL, Mexican baseball and the Caribbean World Series. From April 1999 to July 2001, she served as ESPN DOS’ senior coordinator, as well as the operations and productions point person.

Prior to joining ESPN, Sandoval worked as a reporter, anchor, and broadcaster from 1989-1990 with Canal 11’s weekend show Nuestro Deporte.  She also covered ONEFA (Mexican college football) and the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mexico.  From 1991-95, she served as a reporter, anchor, and broadcaster with Multivision Cable TV working events such as the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona; the 1991 Pan-American games in Havana; the 1995 Track & Field World Championships in Sweden; Mexican college football in 1991, 1993, and 1994; cycling’s Tour de France in 1993 and 1994 and the Tour of Mexico in 1991, 1993 and 1994.

During the same period, she also worked as a reporter and co-anchor for the sports newscast program, Score Final, on Multivision TV and Stereo Rey-Radio, and as an anchor for the show Cuestion de Deporte.  In 1996, she was a reporter, a co-anchor and an information coordinator with the “Palco Deportivo” project by Radio Formula and Channel 40 TV in Mexico City.

Sandoval was also the first woman in Mexican broadcasting history to call football and hockey games play-by-play.  She has also earned other honors for her work including twice being elected to serve on the jury for the “Premio Nacional del Deporte”, which elects the premier athletes in Mexico.

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