Personal information | |||
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Full name | Jenny Ana Chiu Amparán | ||
Date of birth | September 25, 1995 | ||
Place of birth | El Paso, Texas, U.S. | ||
Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | ||
Position(s) | Forward / midfielder | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013–2016 | North Carolina | 15 | (0) |
International career | |||
2012 | Mexico U-17 | 5 | (0) |
2014 | Mexico U-20 | 0 | (0) |
Jenny Ana Chiu Amparán (born September 25, 1995) is an American-Mexican sports reporter and former soccer player. She has worked for CBS Sports since 2020. Born in the United States, she played internationally for the Mexico national under-17 team. She played college soccer for the North Carolina Tar Heels.
Chiu was born in El Paso, Texas, to Lorena and C.Y. Chiu.[1] She is of Mexican and Chinese descent.[2] She has two brothers, one of whom, Andy, played college soccer for Akron.[1][3]
After she showed promise in soccer at age eight, Chiu's father hired Salvador Mercado and Guillermo McFarlane to be her private coaches.[4] She played on boys' teams and attracted national attention from scouts by age twelve.[4] She was called up to train with the youth national teams of Mexico and the United States.[1][4] She played one season of high school soccer as a sophomore at Franklin High School in El Paso.[5] In April 2011, the website TopDrawerSoccer.com named her the top player from Texas.[6] She verbally committed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in July 2011.[3]
During her sophomore year in high school, pain emerged in a spot on Chiu's lower back which was diagnosed as the result of bulging spinal disks partly due to overuse while playing on poor fields.[4] Despite the pain, she played for the Mexico under-17 team at the 2012 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship and captained the team at the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, where she played in two games.[1][4] Back in El Paso, the pain worsened to the point that she sat out her senior high school and club season.[4] She graduated from the School for Educational Enrichment in El Paso in 2013.[1]
Chiu played in only 15 games for 164 minutes during her four years at North Carolina.[1][4] She redshirted her first year and played in only six games the next two seasons.[4] In the summer of 2014, she was called up to the Mexico under-20 team at the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.[7] In a study abroad program before her last year of college, she covered soccer and badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics in an internship with the Olympic News Service.[8][9] She played in nine games as a redshirt junior, ending her college career in the semifinals of the 2016 NCAA Championship.[1][4] She graduated from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media in 2017.[8]
While playing professional soccer in Australia, Chiu got her start in professional broadcasting with Fox Sports.[5] She then became a social media intern for the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer (MLS) and conducted player interviews and produced content for a vlog.[10][11] She joined the broadcast team of MLS's Orlando City SC in 2018, and she won a Suncoast Emmy Award for producing a short video about Orlando's 2020 preseason.[12][13]
CBS Sports hired Chiu in September 2020 to be an on-field reporter for the UEFA Champions League.[11][10] She began reporting for Morning Footy and appearing on Attacking Third for the CBS Sports Golazo Network in 2023.[14][15]