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Kelsey Riggs Cuff

American journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ110879158 ↗
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Kelsey Riggs Cuff is an anchor/reporter for ESPN/ACC Network. She has multiple duties from being a sideline reporter for ACC Football Games to anchoring several ACC Network programs, including All ACC, and anchoring SportsCenter.

Early life

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, her parents are Pam and Bryan Riggs. She was first bitten by the broadcasting bug while reading the news announcements in Elementary School to her classmates. She graduated from the James Island Charter High School where she was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame during the inaugural ceremony in 2023. An alumna of Charleston Southern University, Kelsey earned a degree in communications while playing soccer for the Buccaneers. She has two sisters.

Career

Riggs started her career at WBTW in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and spent three years at WCNC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina where she covered the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 before getting hired by ESPN to be a part of the first on-air talents of the ACC Network. She was named the new host of ACC Huddle in 2023. A year later, she was named to be a full-time Sportscenter anchor.

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The public source identifies “Kelsey Riggs Cuff” as american journalist. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kelsey, Riggs and Cuff.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kelsey, Riggs and Cuff providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kelsey Riggs Cuff” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.