Jen Lada

Jen Lada is a reporter and host for ESPN. She appears primarily on College GameDay Built by The Home Depot and College Football Live. A Sports Emmy-winning features reporter, Lada also contributes to ESPN’s storytelling brand SC Featured, Outside the Lines and E:60.

Lada joined College GameDay as a features reporter and College Football Live as a host in 2016. A two-time Sports Emmy winner, Lada was most recently honored in the Short Feature category in 2023 for her piece on the origin of Wisconsin football’s “Jump Around” tradition. Lada has also produced poignant and powerful GameDay stories about college football head coaches Ryan Day (Ohio State) and Blake Anderson (Utah State) and how they have addressed mental health awareness in their programs after facing personal tragedies.