collegiate women’s basketball player has American nationality and belongs to the Afro-American ancestry. For her high school education, Lisa attended Upper Merion Area High School, King of Prussia and she was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame. After high school, she went to Pennsylvania State University, where she studied broadcast journalism and graduated in 1988 with her bachelor’s degree.

While at Penn State, she played for the female basketball team – The Lady Lions – despite her not-too-tall height. In fact, she became the shortest player to ever play for the University’s female basketball team. Her height was/is 5ft 2in (1.57m) and she still holds the record to date.

Career, Net Worth and Salary

Lisa Salters began her journalism career in 1988 as a reporter for WBAL-TV in Baltimore aftershe graduated from college. She worked there for seven years – between 1988 to 1995 – before she was snapped up by ABC in 1995 as a news correspondent. Her time at ABC became a springboard in the profession as she was able to cover several major stories around the world. Lisa worked as the ABC News Los Angeles-based correspondent and covered the Matthew Shepard murder, the O.J Simpson murder case, the Oklahoma City bombing trial, the TWA Flight 800 crash among others. In 2000, she left news reporting to sports journalism as she joined ESPN after five years with ABC. She served as general assignment reporter and also appeared on the ESPN’s News Magazine as a correspondent.

Having played college basketball with the Penn State University female basketball