Sandy Roberts

Biography

TOPICS: MC, SPORT

Sandy Roberts is one of Australia’s most successful sportscasters with a history of 34 years with the Seven Network.

He was interested in the media from a young age – a somewhat strange preoccupation for a boy brought up on a sheep farm near the country town of Lucindale in South Australia.

Sandy’s fate as a sportscaster was sealed when he was asked by Seven to be one of the commentators for the 1980 Moscow Olympics telecast. After the Games he joined Seven Melbourne.

Since then, Sandy has called more than 700 games of AFL football, including ten (10) Grand Finals. He also commentates on Seven’s tennis and golf telecasts. As a Senior Commentator on Seven’s telecasts he has extensively covered the Davis Cup worldwide and the Australian Open Tennis for the past decade. As the networks face of golf, Sandy has covered over 100 tournaments including the Australian Open and Australian Masters for the past two decades. He has also led Seven’s coverage of two US Opens, a British Open Championship and two Presidents Cups in Melbourne and Virginia, USA.

He has enjoyed working with some of the great names in sport including Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman and Tiger Woods. And in tennis, he has shared the microphone with the likes of John McEnroe and Jim Courier.

Sandy proudly boasts hosting and commentating on ten (10) Olympic Games, six (6) Summer and four (4) Winter Games.

Today, Sandy has an enviable reputation for being one of Australia’s most knowledgeable and respected industry professionals, with vast experience at major sports events. Along with his many varied sporting roles, Sandy currently presents week night sport for Seven News Melbourne.

Based in VIC – travels everywhere