Zora Stephenson is an Emmy Award-Winning reporter, play-by-play broadcaster, analyst, and host for NBC Sports. She is also a former Division 1 basketball player.

Stephenson serves as the play-by-play voice for Peacock’s exclusive slate of Big Ten Women’s Basketball and as a sideline reporter for NBC Sports’ coverage of Notre Dame Football, Big Ten Football, and various Olympic sports. She was both the gymnastics and basketball reporter at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Prior to her time at NBC Sports, Zora was the sideline reporter and fill-in play-by-play announcer for the Milwaukee Bucks for four seasons. Stephenson made history in 2021, becoming the first woman to do play-by-play for the Bucks.

Stephenson came to Milwaukee from Denver, Colorado where she was an Emmy Award-winning news reporter and anchor at FOX31 and Colorado’s Own Channel 2.

Originally from northern Virginia, Stephenson played basketball at Elon University, an NCAA Division I school in North Carolina.