Kristen Lee Budden, best known as Kris Budden is an American sports reporter currently working for ESPN and with an estimated net worth of $2 million.
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Budden is known for reporting on the San Diego Padres as well as being a current sideline reporter for college football and college basketball.
Her first work was as a weekend sports anchor at WCAV in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Within 18 months, she moved to WBIR in Knoxville, Tennessee, to work as both a sports anchor and reporter covering the Tennessee Volunteers’ athletics programs.
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Over the course of six years, Budden covered the men’s and women’s NCAA and SEC basketball tournaments, the 2012 Summer Olympics and Pat Summitt’s retirement.
At WBIR, she received the Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters’ award for Best Breaking Sports News and posted four consecutive second-place finishes in the Best Sports Feature category.
In August 2013, Budden moved to San Diego, California, after accepting a position with Fox Sports and initially becoming a part of the Fox NFL broadcast crew.
In March 2014, she became the sideline reporter for the Padres broadcasts and a fill-in host for the team’s pre- and post-game shows.
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