CBS News and CBS Sports, summed up her contributions this way: "Lesley Visser's career has broken many barriers and defined previously unimagined roles for women in professional sports and sports broadcasting." On June 8, 2015, Visser was inducted in the NSSA Hall of Fame, along with Bill Raftery, Hal McCoy and the late Dick Schaap. She is the third woman to be accorded this honor since the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association began presenting it in 1962. In February 2020, ESPN reported that Visser would receive the Sports Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award, the first woman to be so honored. References External links 1953 births American women television personalities Living people Major League Baseball broadcasters National Basketball Association broadcasters Writers from Quincy, Massachusetts American radio sports announcers American television sports announcers Sportswriters from Massachusetts The Boston Globe people American television reporters and correspondents Women sports announcers Tennis commentators American horse racing announcers Olympic Games broadcasters Figure skating commentators National Football League announcers Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award recipients College basketball announcers in the United States College football announcers Golf writers and broadcasters American women sportswriters American women non-fiction writers American women television journalists Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni 21st-century American women