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Meredith Marakovits
Meredith Marakovits (born July 22, 1983) is an Emmy Award-winning American sports reporter. As of April 2025, she is the YES Network's clubhouse reporter for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, where she covers the network's Yankees game broadcasts, pre-game and post-game shows, and contributes to the Yankees Batting Practice Today and Yankees Hot Stove programs.
Marakovits is featured frequently on YES’ special Yankees programming, the YESNetwork.com website, and YES’ various social media platforms. Marakovits previously did radio and television work with ESPN, WFAN, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, and SportsNet New York (SNY), covering both local and national sports.
Marakovits was born in Walnutport, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley. She attended Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she played volleyball and was named the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Most Valuable Player, earned first-team all-District 11 honors, and received all-state honorable mention recognition.
Marakovits graduated from Allentown Central Catholic High School in 2001. She received a scholarship to play volleyball at the NCAA Division I level at La Salle University in Philadelphia, but she suffered from many lower-leg injuries throughout her collegiate career.
Meredith attributes her passion for sports to growing up in an athletic family with two older brothers. She described her younger self as a tomboy who played a wide range of sports, including basketball, softball, swimming, gymnastics, and volleyball. Injuries in college forced her to abandon athletics, and she began exploring a career in sports broadcasting. While in college, Marakovits interned at Fox Sports in Los Angeles for three months, working as a production assistant on the MLB on Fox pregame show with Jeanne Zelasko and Kevin Kennedy, which ignited her enthusiasm for a career in broadcasting. She graduated from La Salle in 2005 with a degree in communications.
In 2005, Marakovits began her career as a reporter and photographer with Service Electric, an Allentown, Pennsylvania local TV station that covered Lehigh Valley's high school and college sports. Marakovits worked for the network's sports division as a sideline reporter for their college football, indoor football, and college basketball broadcasts. Beginning in 2006, Marakovits also joined the morning radio show SportsTalk Philadelphia on 950 ESPN/97.5 The Fanatic. She served as the third voice alongside hosts Gregg Henson and former NFL quarterback Glenn Foley, who was later replaced by Jon Marks.
When Service Electric gained rights to the Philadelphia Phillies’ Double-A and Triple-A teams in 2008, she also began covering baseball. Marakovits covered the Reading Fightin Phils, the Phillies’ Double-A affiliate, and served as the pre-game, post-game host, and sideline reporter covering the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Phillies’ Triple-A affiliate.
During this time, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia offered her a segment on their “farm report” covering minor league prospects, which she accepted. Marakovits juggled three jobs through 2009, calling that time in her career “insanity.” That year, she also covered the Yankees-Phillies World Series for SportsNet New York (SNY). She hosted a half-hour on-site pregame show, her first experience reporting from the field at Yankee Stadium.
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Meredith Marakovits
Meredith Marakovits (born July 22, 1983) is an Emmy Award-winning American sports reporter. As of April 2025, she is the YES Network's clubhouse reporter for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, where she covers the network's Yankees game broadcasts, pre-game and post-game shows, and contributes to the Yankees Batting Practice Today and Yankees Hot Stove programs.
Marakovits is featured frequently on YES’ special Yankees programming, the YESNetwork.com website, and YES’ various social media platforms. Marakovits previously did radio and television work with ESPN, WFAN, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, and SportsNet New York (SNY), covering both local and national sports.
Marakovits was born in Walnutport, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley. She attended Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she played volleyball and was named the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Most Valuable Player, earned first-team all-District 11 honors, and received all-state honorable mention recognition.
Marakovits graduated from Allentown Central Catholic High School in 2001. She received a scholarship to play volleyball at the NCAA Division I level at La Salle University in Philadelphia, but she suffered from many lower-leg injuries throughout her collegiate career.
Meredith attributes her passion for sports to growing up in an athletic family with two older brothers. She described her younger self as a tomboy who played a wide range of sports, including basketball, softball, swimming, gymnastics, and volleyball. Injuries in college forced her to abandon athletics, and she began exploring a career in sports broadcasting. While in college, Marakovits interned at Fox Sports in Los Angeles for three months, working as a production assistant on the MLB on Fox pregame show with Jeanne Zelasko and Kevin Kennedy, which ignited her enthusiasm for a career in broadcasting. She graduated from La Salle in 2005 with a degree in communications.
In 2005, Marakovits began her career as a reporter and photographer with Service Electric, an Allentown, Pennsylvania local TV station that covered Lehigh Valley's high school and college sports. Marakovits worked for the network's sports division as a sideline reporter for their college football, indoor football, and college basketball broadcasts. Beginning in 2006, Marakovits also joined the morning radio show SportsTalk Philadelphia on 950 ESPN/97.5 The Fanatic. She served as the third voice alongside hosts Gregg Henson and former NFL quarterback Glenn Foley, who was later replaced by Jon Marks.
When Service Electric gained rights to the Philadelphia Phillies’ Double-A and Triple-A teams in 2008, she also began covering baseball. Marakovits covered the Reading Fightin Phils, the Phillies’ Double-A affiliate, and served as the pre-game, post-game host, and sideline reporter covering the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Phillies’ Triple-A affiliate.
During this time, Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia offered her a segment on their “farm report” covering minor league prospects, which she accepted. Marakovits juggled three jobs through 2009, calling that time in her career “insanity.” That year, she also covered the Yankees-Phillies World Series for SportsNet New York (SNY). She hosted a half-hour on-site pregame show, her first experience reporting from the field at Yankee Stadium.
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