Cara Capuano
Cara Capuano is a sports reporter for FSN. She joined FSN in August 2004, as a reporter and anchor for the Northwest Sports Report, and the Detroit Sports Report. She is a Southern Californian.
Other duties
- Contributes regularly as a play-by-play announcer for game telecasts carried by FSN Northwest.
- Sideline reporter for FSN college football games.
- Sideline reporter for FOX Sports NFL games.
Life before sports
Capuano graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Cell Biology and Biochemistry from University of California San Diego in 1995.
She spent a year working on her doctorate at UCLA before deciding to leave the laboratory and pursue her dream career in sportscasting.
Sports career
Her sports journey started when she worked at both KCOP-TV and FSN in Los Angeles, where she started as a sports assistant.
In 1998, Capuano moved in front of the camera, moving to Bozeman, Montana, to work as the sports director at KCTZ.
Like Colin Cowherd, she spent some time serving as a play-by-play announcer, color analyst and sideline reporter for the matches between Montana State University and the University of Montana in football, volleyball and basketball. She worked for a year as a sports anchor and reporter in Corpus Christi, Texas.
ESPN
In 2000 she landed a position at ESPN. While in Bristol, CT, Capuano spent her time on the anchor desk between ESPNEWS and SportsCenter. She also returned to the sidelines, calling play-by-play for Division I women's college basketball. UCSD Alumni