Katie Kerwin McCrimmon (born 1965 in Denver, Colorado) is a journalist and former reporter/analyst for ESPN.
"[1][2][3][4][5][6] McCrimmon's spelling bee win won her a full scholarship to Colorado College, where she graduated with a degree in journalism in 1987.
[2] After college, she began to work for the Rocky Mountain News and served as their Washington, D.C. correspondent until 1996 and continued at the paper until it closed in 2009.
[7][8] In the early 1990s, CNN began broadcasting the National Spelling Bee and invited her to be a commentator.
[2][9] She made a cameo appearance in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee.