FSN-Midwest Commentators

Brenda Vanlengen

Brenda VanLengen is Vice President, Operations for PE4life, a leading national implementation program for improving physical education programs for all children in grades K-12. She has spent her career championing the importance of education, sports and fitness. Prior to joining PE4life, VanLengen coached basketball at the University of Nebraska. She has established herself as one of the country's top women's basketball television analysts, providing analysis on national broadcasts of games involving opponents from the Big 12, SEC, Big East, Big Ten, and Pac 10, among others. She has called the NCAA Division II National Championship games on ESPN2 three of the last four years, as well as first and second round Division I NCAA Tournament games on ESPN. She also serves as color analyst for the Big 12 Conference package on Fox Sports Net (FSN). She has degrees from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln."

Patti Phillips

Patti is the Director of the Women's Intersport Network for Kansas City (WIN for KC), a program under the umbrella of the Kansas City Sports Commission and Foundation that focuses its programming primarily on girls and women. In addition, Patti provides color commentary for ESPN, ESPN Regional, FOX Sports Midwest and Metro Sports television broadcasts of high school and collegiate women's basketball games. Before joining the Kansas City Sports Commission, Patti worked for the NCAA as the CHAMPS/Life Skills Program Coordinator in Education Outreach, where her primary duties included planning, organizing, and implementing three national conferences per year. She was involved in leadership training and programming, and curriculum writing for the Life Skills program. Prior to that, she was the head women's basketball coach at Ottawa University in Ottawa, KS for eight years. She inherited a losing program at Ottawa and turned it into a regional power. Under her direction, the Ottawa Lady Braves received their first national ranking in school history. She has degrees from Baker University and the University of Kansas.