Danielle Trotta (born March 13, 1981) is an American journalist who covers auto racing for Sirius XM. She was the co-host of NASCAR Race Hub, and the pre-race show NASCAR RaceDay for Xfinity Series events on Fox Sports 1. Trotta started her career in high school, and after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she worked for local station WBTV. She moved to Fox Sports in July 2010 where she has covered NASCAR and the NFL. In 2018, she joined the cast of Boston Sports Tonight at NBC Sports Boston. Life and career Trotta was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. She is the daughter of Phyllis and high school girl's basketball coach Dan Trotta, and has one younger sister, Andrea. Her family moved to Richmond, Indiana when Trotta was ten years old, and at the age of 13 before she started high school, moved to Carmel for business reasons. Trotta, who was inspired to go into broadcasting after watching an NBA on NBC pre-game broadcast by Bob Costas and Hannah Storm, started her career in television while she attended Carmel High School by working for the school's 24-hour local channel as a host and presenter between 1995 and 1999. She also took part in three consecutive statewide championships in swimming, diving and springboard diving. Trotta enrolled in four colleges along the East Coast before she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a degree in Mass Journalism in 2005. During her period in college, Trotta had interships with television stations with Indianapolis and with Charlotte, North Carolina based stations WCNC-TV and WBTV (she joined the latter in 2004). After graduation, she was hired full-time as a weekend news editor for WBTV. Trotta started as a photographer, and later convinced the station's management to allow herself to be shown on television. She made her on-screen début at WBTV as weekend sports anchor in 2007, following the departure of Kricket Morton that April; Trotta additionally hosted Sports Saturday Night, and co-hosted The Point After with D&D with Delano Little on Sunday nights. She moved to the station's sports department in August 2006; She stated her favourite stories were those about high school athletes who overcame challenges on the playing field and in the local community. Trotta remained with WBTV until 2010, when she moved to Fox Sports's Speed in July after being offered