2024 Annual Meeting - Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation

Join us for our 2024 Annual Meeting

Wednesday, May 8, 2024
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

at the Dr. Marcelo Cavazos Center for Visual & Performing Arts of Arlington ISD

Lunch will be provided by Ella B’s Restaurant

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

KRISTI SCALES, Dallas Cowboys Sideline Reporter

“No one does it better than Kristi Scales on the Cowboys Radio Network. She’s usually miles ahead of the TV network types forced to eat her dust. Number 1 on the gold scale.” –Barry Horn, Dallas Morning News sports media critic

Winner of the Blackie Sherrod Lifetime Achievement Award for sports journalism & broadcasting. She and 2017 co-winner Charean Williams of Pro Football Weekly are the first women to earn the award, becoming only the 6th and 7th honorees. Previous winners include legendary sportswriters and broadcasters Pat Summerall, Dan Jenkins, Frank Luksa, Verne Lundquist, and Brad Sham.
This 2024 season is her 26th NFL season as Sideline Reporter for Dallas Cowboys games on The Dallas Cowboys Radio Network and her 34th season overall as a member of the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network. Her first 8 years on the crew, she served as booth producer before moving to Sideline Reporter for the 1999 season.
Talent/gameday broadcaster on “The Fan 105.3FM” KRLD-FM in Dallas.
Co-host of Dallas Cowboys’ podcast Girls Talk Boys Talk on DallasCowboys.com.
Writer for The Dallas Morning News’ on-line sports section SportsDay.com.
During a preseason game in 2002, Kristi became the first female to fill the role of analyst in the booth for an NFL radio broadcast.
For the past 23 years, has been a judge for Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader auditions as featured on CMT’s “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team”.
Winner of 3 Katie Awards for excellence in radio broadcasting.
Has produced three Super Bowl broadcasts as well as international American Bowl broadcasts from London, Toronto, Mexico City & Monterrey. Broadcast from the sideline of the Tokyo Dome for the Cowboys’ American Bowl game in Japan, broadcast from London’s Wembley Stadium for regular season game in 2014.
Began her broadcasting career at KVIL Radio in Dallas in 1989 after graduating from Texas A&M University with a degree in Speech Communication (magna cum laude). Graduated from Lake Highlands High School (Richardson ISD) in Dallas in 1985.
Married to husband, Louis.

Michael and Mary Cinatl

The Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation connects the Arlington community with great careers, tourism enterprises with talented people, and the tourism industry with a more sustainable and employable future.

As one of the most popular sports and travel destinations in the country, Arlington attracts millions of visitors and billions of dollars every year. Our community is home to world-famous sports franchises, gravity-defying thrill rides, exciting new concert venues, chef-driven restaurants and state-of-the-art hotels. But with our impressive growth and growing national attention comes many challenges. The Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation stands ready to meet them. Through an engaged membership and partners across North Texas, TSLF is fostering connections that will ensure Arlington’s economic growth benefits people across the region.

We are connecting young students in middle school, high school and college to great careers through educational programs, skills training, internships and scholarships.
We’re connecting sports, travel, hospitality and entertainment companies to the local talent they need to fill positions across their enterprises — from customer service to IT, catering, logistics and more.
And we’re connecting our entire community to economic well-being and a more sustainable future by nurturing a new generation of educated, engaged and productive citizens.

The Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation. Transforming lives through tourism opportunities.