{"id":173457,"date":"2026-02-11T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173457\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:45:21","slug":"kcra-sacramento-ups-michelle-dapper-to-sports-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173457\/","title":{"rendered":"KCRA Sacramento Ups Michelle Dapper To Sports Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dapper_Michelle_2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-372047\"  \/>Michelle Dapper<\/p>\n<p>Hearst NBC affiliate KCRA Sacramento, Calif., has promoted Michelle Dapper sports director. She has been a key member of the KCRA sports team since 2014 and brings nearly two decades of experience covering the biggest moments in professional, collegiate, and high school athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her career, she has reported from six Super Bowls, NBA Finals with the Golden State Warriors, World Series matchups with the San Francisco Giants, spring training and Major League Baseball\u2019s expansion into Sacramento. She also covered the Sacramento Kings\u2019 first playoff run in 16 seasons and has reported on hundreds of high school football games and multiple state championship events across a variety of sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA dream come true doesn\u2019t even begin to cover it,\u201d Dapper said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor more than a decade, Michelle has connected our audience to the heart of Northern California sports,\u201d said KCRA President-GM Ariel Roblin. \u201cShe understands the powerful role sports coverage plays in our community, highlighting the triumphs, resilience, and dedication of our local athletes. Above all, Michelle understands the legacy of KCRA 3 Sports, and I couldn\u2019t be prouder to see her lead the next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dapper\u2019s work has earned recognition, including a Northern California Emmy Award and a Gold Telly Award for her contributions to the KCRA \u00a0documentary Game On, which chronicled the high-stakes 2013 battle between Sacramento and Seattle over the future of the Kings NBA franchise.<\/p>\n<p>A native Californian, Dapper\u2019s career include stints at KHQ Spokane, Wash.; KEZI Eugene, Ore.; and KRBC Abilene, Texas. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Dapper Hearst NBC affiliate KCRA Sacramento, Calif., has promoted Michelle Dapper sports director. She has been a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-173457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}