Alex Chappell

Alex Chappell, born October 10, 1988, is an American journalist who covers the Washington Nationals for Mid-Atlantic Sports Network. She is also a sideline reporter at ESPN and SEC Network covering college football.

Education and early life

Chappell was born in Bethesda (Maryland). Phillip Corddry, her father, was a left-handed pitcher at the University of Maryland. She spent the 1969 and 1972 seasons with Boston Red Sox. She graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Alabama and the University of Alabama. While in college, she interned at WJLA, Washington, D.C.

Chappell became a Washington Nationals supporter in 2005 after the team moved from Montreal. They had previously played as the Montreal Expos from 1969 to 2004. She admired former MASN field reporter Amber Theoharis (now Kristina fitzpatrick) during broadcasts of the Baltimore Orioles, and the Washington Nationals broadcasts.

Career

Chappell graduated from the University of Alabama and worked as a sports reporter at a CBS affiliate in Birmingham. She worked briefly on Redskins Nation, NBC Sports Washington and as a sports reporter at WHDH in Boston, Massachusetts. TBS covered the 2019 Major League Baseball playoffs. She was also the pre-and post-game reporter at Bally Sports Florida for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2017. She then became MASN’s field reporter for broadcasts of the Washington Nationals games in 2019, 2020. The Nationals hired her to be their substitute anchor and pre-game and postgame anchor when MASN eliminated the position of field reporter from coverage of Nationals games starting in 2021.

Personal life

In January 2019, Chappell wed Scott Chappell (an attorney). Her cousins are actors and former Daily Show correspondents Nate Corddry and Rob Corddry. Chappell shared via Instagram on May 31, 2022 that she was expecting a baby girl in November.