Paulina García Robles (born 26 February 1993) is a Mexican television presenter, sportscaster, and model currently working for ESPN Deportes and ESPN Mexico. García currently anchors the Spanish-language version of SportsCenter.[1]
García started out her broadcasting career appearing in YouTube clips for Universidad Insurgentes and Across Life, and the pilot of Ni Pio of Televisa Deportes.[1] In February 2015, shortly before her 22nd birthday, García joined the cast of FOROtv morning show Matutino Express.[5]
After few months on Matutino Express she left the show and joined ESPN Mexico in June 2015.[1]
She made her debut on the network appearing on morning talk show Toque Inicial on 3 August 2015.[6][7]
García began her career at ESPN hosting various programs, most notably Toque Inicial where she co-hosted the show with Juan Pablo Fernández.[1] She also did various segments called SportsCenter Ahora, a two minute review of the most important news of the day.[8] The segments aired between daytime shows on ESPN Mexico and ESPN Deportes, during Raza Deportiva and Jorge Ramos y su Banda on ESPN Deportes as well as online.[1] García was also the social media correspondent of the afternoon edition of Fútbol Picante from February 2016 to August 2017.[8]
In February 2016, García started hosting the show YoRio, a show dedicated to the 2016 Summer Olympics, along with José Ramón Fernández, Alejandro de la Rosa and Tlatoani Carrera.[9] Later that year, García covered her first major sporting event when she was sent by ESPN to cover the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[10]
In August 2017, García left both Toque Inicial (after it was re-branded as Toque) and the afternoon edition of Fútbol Picante to become the presenter of ESPN AM, a new program hosted by Ciro Procuna and Francisco Gabriel de Anda.[11] In September 2017, García also became a permanent anchor of the Spanish-language version of SportsCenter, she had previously been only used as an occasional fill-in.
