August 2003

MARY CARILLO
(CBS Sports Broadcaster)

Mary Carillo, who joined CBS Sports as a tennis analyst in 1986, covers the U.S. Open Tennis Championships as a match analyst with John McEnroe. She also serves as the analyst for the CBS Television Network's late-night highlights program.

In addition, Carillo serves as a correspondent for HBO Sports' "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" and covers Wimbledon for TNT, for which she also covered the 2001 NBA Playoffs.

She served as a reporter for CBS Sports' coverage of the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Olympic Winter Games and as a reporter for the Network's coverage of NCAA women's basketball and gymnastics. Carillo also served as a reporter for NBC's coverage of the 2000 Olympic Summer Games and the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, as well as host of the 2002 Closing Ceremony broadcast. Prior to joining CBS Sports, she provided tennis analysis for the USA Network for six years and ESPN for nine years. She also covered Wimbledon for HBO for four years.

Carillo played on the women's professional tennis circuit from 1977 to 1980. She was ranked as high as #33 from January through March 1980, when she retired. She won the French Open mixed-doubles title with partner John McEnroe in 1977 and was a doubles runner-up at the U.S. Clay Courts and a doubles quarterfinalist at the U.S. Open that year.

A former member of the Women's Tennis Association Board of Directors, Carillo was named Best Commentator by Tennis Magazine (1988-91), Best Commentator by World Tennis magazine (1986) and Broadcaster of the Year by the WTA (1981 and 1985). She won a Peabody Award for co-writing the HBO documentary "Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports" with Frank DeFord. Carillo has also written two books, Tennis My Way with Martina Navratilova and Rick Elstein's Tennis Kinetics.

She was born March 15, 1957, in Queens, N.Y., and lives in Naples, Fla. She has two children.

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