Pam Ward joined ESPN in 1996, and now serves as a play-by-play commentator on women’s college basketball, college softball and the WNBA. Ward has hosted a variety of shows at ESPN, both on the TV and radio sides.

On November 22, 2000, Ward became the first woman to work play-by-play on a Division I college football game when she called ESPN2’s telecast of Bowling Green at Toledo. In 2001, she called her first full season of college football.

In July 2010, CoSIDA honored Ward as the recipient of the Jake Wade Award, which annually recognizes an individual “who has made an outstanding contribution in the media to the field of intercollegiate athletics.”

Before joining ESPN, Ward worked in sports radio in Cleveland, Baltimore and at WTEM Radio in her hometown, Washington, D.C.

Ward earned her bachelor's degree in 1984 from the University of Maryland’s Radio, Television and Film program that was absorbed into Merrill College. In 2015, UMD honored Ward with the Distinguished Terrapin Award, given out by the journalism department through The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism to alums in the industry.