Alyssa Lang

Lang graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in broadcast journalism in 2015. While in university, she joined the TV station WLTX in Columbia as an intern in 2013.{{cite news |title=WLTX sports anchor moving on to new TV market |url=https://www.thestate.com/sports/article71365577.html |access-date=October 23, 2023 |work=The State |date=April 12, 2016}} She also worked for SPEEDTV and GamecockCentral.com around this time.{{cite news |last1=Connolly |first1=Matt |title=USC and WLTX alum joining SEC Network |url=https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/article216438710.html |access-date=October 23, 2023 |work=The State |date=August 10, 2018}} She had been working as a weekend sports anchor before she left the station in 2016 to join First Coast News in Jacksonville, Florida.

After two years at First Coast News, Lang joined the SEC Network in 2018 as a studio show anchor and host, where she has hosted the SEC Network programs Thinking Out Loud and SEC Now.{{cite news |last1=Connolly |first1=Matt |title=Gamecocks grad, WLTX alum Alyssa Lang earns her own show on SEC Network |url=https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/article245918965.html |access-date=October 23, 2023 |work=The State |date=September 22, 2020}} In 2020, she was announced to be co-hosting ESPN Radio's Primetime show on Sunday afternoons with co-host Field Yates, and she was given her own show, Out of Pocket with Alyssa Lang, on the SEC Network. The State of Columbia in 2021 called her "one of the faces of the SEC Network" and praised her for being "cognizant of the place she holds as part of ESPN's star-studded college football lineup" while "[maintaining] the realness and effervescent personality those in Columbia recall so clearly." In 2023, football analyst Takeo Spikes was announced to be joining Lang on Out of Pocket as a co-host.{{cite news |last1=Labar |first1=Sean |title=SEC Network announces new co-host will join Alyssa Lang on 'Out of Pocket' show |url=https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/sec-network-announces-new-co-host-will-join-alyssa-lang-on-out-of-pocket-show/ |access-date=October 23, 2023 |work=Saturday Down South |date=August 29, 2023}}

Lang has also worked for WCNC in Charlotte, North Carolina.{{cite web|url=https://www.secsports.com/article/24339942/sec-network-adds-south-carolina-alum-alyssa-lang|title=SEC Network adds South Carolina alum Alyssa Lang|publisher=SEC Network|access-date=August 7, 2023}} In 2022, she was announced to be guest host of The Paul Finebaum Show (which would make her the first woman to guest host the show) after she hosted a radio version of the show earlier that year.{{cite news |last1=Heim |first1=Mark |title=Alyssa Lang becomes first female to guest host 'Paul Finebaum Show' on Monday: 'We're thrilled' |url=https://www.al.com/sec/2022/08/alyssa-lang-becomes-first-female-to-guest-host-paul-finebaum-show-on-monday-were-thrilled.html |access-date=October 23, 2023 |work=AL.com |date=August 22, 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Farner |first1=Keith |title=Alyssa Lang to become first woman to guest host 'The Paul Finebaum Show' |url=https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/alyssa-lang-to-become-first-woman-to-guest-host-the-paul-finebaum-show/ |access-date=October 23, 2023 |work=Saturday Down South |date=August 22, 2022}}

Lang co-hosted ESPN's SportsCenter with Linda Cohn the first week of July 2024.{{Needs citation|date=March 2025}}

Lang is a native of Huntersville, North Carolina.{{cite web|url=https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/11/alyssa_lang.php|author=Alexis Watts|title=Football fan to trailblazing anchor|publisher=University of South Carolina|access-date=August 7, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/better-know-a-broadcaster-sec-network-host-reporter-alyssa-lang/|author=Adam Spencer|title=Better Know a Broadcaster: SEC Network host/reporter Alyssa Lang|website=Saturday Down South|date=June 28, 2020 |access-date=August 7, 2023}} When she was young, she spent weekends in the fall traveling from her home in Charlotte to football games at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, where her parents are alumni.{{cite news |last1=Portnoy |first1=Ben |title=Alyssa Lang is a rising star at ESPN. Her time in Columbia helped her get there |url=https://www.thestate.com/sports/college/university-of-south-carolina/usc-football/article253141053.html |access-date=October 23, 2023 |work=The State |date=August 3, 2021}} In high school, Lang's public speaking teacher told her parents during a parent-teacher conference that she could have success in broadcasting because of her skill in speaking in front of her classmates.

Lang's fiancé is football analyst Trevor Sikkema. After a 2022 game, Lang asked Mississippi State University coach Mike Leach for advice for her upcoming wedding, and Leach in response recommended that she take the opportunity after the football season to "elope".{{cite news |last1=Mohr |first1=Dani |title=Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach has wedding advice for you — and it's hilarious |url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/mississippi-state/2022/10/04/mike-leach-wedding-advice-mississippi-state-football-alyssa-lang-fiance-trevor-sikkema/69539253007/ |access-date=October 23, 2023 |work=The Clarion-Ledger |date=October 4, 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Froyd |first1=Crissy |title=Mike Leach offers hilarious wedding advice to SEC Network's Alyssa Lang |url=https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/mississippi-state-football/mike-leach-offers-hilarious-wedding-advice-to-sec-networks-alyssa-lang/ |access-date=October 23, 2023 |work=Saturday Down South |date=October 2, 2022}}

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