Hannah Storm, ESPN Anchor, award-winning director, producer to receive prestigious Pat Summerall Award during Super Bowl LIX

MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Legends for Charity^® Dinner presenting The Pat Summerall Award will celebrate 20 years on Feb. 6, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans, the NFL headquarters hotel during Super Bowl weekend. ESPN anchor Hannah Storm will be the 2025 recipient of this coveted award presented annually at Legends for Charity benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital^®.

The award celebrates a national broadcaster or prominent sports personality who has had an outstanding career while making a significant impact in their community. Storm, who hosted Legends for Charity in 2019 and 2020, is an award-winning journalist, producer and director, a pioneer in the field of sports broadcasting for women, an advocate for children suffering vascular anomalies and a published author. Storm will be the second female recipient of the Pat Summerall Award.

The award began in 2006 during Super Bowl XL in Detroit when storied broadcaster Pat Summerall personally chose the first honoree. Since its inception, Legends for Charity has raised more than $13 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Past honorees include, James Brown, Greg Gumbel, Jim Nantz, Chris Berman, Cris Collinsworth, The NFL ON FOX, Al Michaels, Archie Manning, Michael Strahan, Joe Buck, John Madden, Rich Eisen, Tony Dungy, Bill Cowher, Jim Kelly, Erin Andrews, Howie Long and Tony Romo.

The exclusive awards dinner will host hundreds of athletes, broadcasters and industry executives who come together annually to support the lifesaving mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children.^® Events like Legends for Charity help ensure families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food, so they can focus on helping their child live.

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About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital^®

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children.^® It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was largely considered incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate from 20% to more than 80%, and it won't stop until no child dies from cancer. St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes to help doctors and researchers at local hospitals and cancer centers around the world improve the quality of treatment and care for even more children. Because of generous donors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food, so they can focus on helping their child live. Visit St. Jude Inspire to discover powerful St. Jude stories of hope, strength, love and kindness. Support the St. Jude mission by donating at stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook, following St. Jude on X, Instagram, LinkedIn and TikTok, and subscribing to its YouTube channel.

About Legends for Charity

Legends for Charity^® is an annual national event held during Super Bowl Weekend to present The Pat Summerall Award to a deserving broadcaster. Created by Cheryl DeLeonardis of Ocean 2 Ocean Productions, it is annually held at the prestigious NFL headquarters hotel and celebrates national sports legends having raised over $13 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Since its inception in 2005, it has become a cornerstone event during the biggest weekend in professional sports earning eight national Telly Awards and opening the world of sports broadcasters to the lifesaving mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.