New York's Central Park, breaking her hip and skidding head-first across the pavement, requiring surgery on her face and hip. In 2006, she required an artificial hip replacement. Achievements Events Visser has covered a number of events: 34 Final Fours 12 NBA Finals 7 World Series 15 Kentucky Derbys 7 Preakness Stakes 10 Belmont Stakes 3 Summer Olympics 3 Winter Olympics 28 Super Bowls 7 World Figure Skating Championships 29 US Open (tennis) 15 Wimbledons Honors In June 2006, Visser was named the first female recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award by the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That same month, she was honored by the American Women in Radio and Television as the first woman sportscaster recipient of a Gracie Allen Award that celebrates programming created for women, by women and about women, as well as individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the industry; in 2007, she became the first woman sportscaster to host the Gracie Awards. Also in 2007, Visser received the Emily Couric Leadership Award—previously given to Sandra Day O'Connor, Caroline Kennedy and Donna Brazile—and in 2007, she was honored at the 22nd Annual Sports Legend Dinner, along with Magic Johnson, Gary Player and John Elway to benefit the Buoniconti fund to cure paralysis. In 2005 she won the Pop Warner female achievement award and was inducted into the New England Sports Museum Hall of Fame, along with Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy and the 1980 United States Olympic Hockey team. Visser was honored with the Compass Award for 'changing the paradigm of her business' and was one of 100 luminaries commemorating the 75th anniversary of the CBS Television Network in 2003. She was also named "WISE Woman of the Year" in 2002 and voted the "Outstanding Women's Sportswriter in America" in 1983 and won the "Women's Sports Foundation Award for Journalism" in 1992, and in 1999 she won the first AWSM Pioneer Award. Visser received an honorary doctorate of journalism from her alma mater in May 2007. Visser became the first woman sportscaster to carry the Olympic Torch when she was honored in 2004 by the International Olympic Committee as a "pioneer and standard-bearer." Visser worked her 34th Final Four/NCAA men's basketball championship in April 2012, having worked the tournament for the Boston Globe, ESPN, and CBS Sports. In 2005, Visser was elected to the Museum of Television and Radio. Sean McManus, President of