Karie Ross

She was a supporter of Oklahoma Sooners sports in many ways: a baseball batgirl, a wrestling mat maid, and a football and basketball pompon squad member.

Ross spent 18 months at KOCO-TV; four years at Columbus, Ohio's WBNS-TV; two years in Bristol, Connecticut for ESPN; and nine months at Sports News Network in Washington, D.C. After a 9-month hiatus, she landed at KLAS-TV, becoming Las Vegas's first female weekday sports anchor, where she lasted less than a year.

On December 16, 1992, she met Dave Dombrowski when the expansion Florida Marlins signed Benito Santiago.

Santiago hit the 1993 Marlins first home run in April and another month later Dombrowski asked her out.

[1] Ross was regarded as one of the first female sportscasters with a solid knowledge of sports, following in the footsteps of Gayle Gardner.