Julia Morales Clark (born April 12, 1985) is a sports anchor and reporter for

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as well as the

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' sideline reporter, pregame and post game talk show star. She is in her 9th season of broadcasting for the Astros and Rockets. Prior to taking her job with Space City Home Network, she was a reporter for Time Warner Cable News. During her time, she broadcast big events including the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, and the World Series. Before working for AT&T SportsNet Southwest, Morales spent time as a reporter at

KTEN-TV } KTEN (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Ada, Oklahoma, United States, serving the Sherman, Texas–Ada, Oklahoma market as an affiliate of NBC, The CW Plus The CW Plus is a secondary national broadcast television broadcast sy ...

Sherman, Texas Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. The city's population in 2020 was 43,645. It is one of the two principal cities in the Sherman–Denison metropolitan area, Sherman–Denison metropolitan statist ...

KYTX KYTX (channel 19) is a television station licensed to Nacogdoches, Texas, United States, serving East Texas as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station has studios near Loop 323 in the southeastern portion of Tyle ...

CBS 19 in

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, and Your News Now in

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. Morales is a graduate of the

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, where she was a member of the Pom spirit group. She was on the sidelines for the Longhorns' national championship win in Pasadena in 2005. On May 13, 2024, in a game between the

and the

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, Morales and Jenny Cavnar became the first two women to do the play-by-play on television for the same

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game.

Personal life

A native of

Crandall, Texas Crandall is a city in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. Its population was 5,100 in 2023. It began as a railway town, developing alongside the Texas Trunk Railroad in the early 1880s. Crandall is named after Cornelius F. Crandall, who had pre ...

, Morales spent two years as a member of the

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before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the daughter of Victor M. Morales, 1996 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas. Through her father she is of Mexican descent. She is married to former MLB player Matt Clark, and is the daughter-in-law of former pitcher Terry Clark through this marriage.The two were together for five years before they decided to get married in November 2015.

References

1983 births Living people 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American women journalists American television sports announcers American people of Mexican descent Houston Astros announcers Houston Rockets announcers Major League Baseball broadcasters People from Kaufman County, Texas University of Texas at Austin alumni Women baseball announcers American women sports commentators Kilgore College Rangerettes {{US-journalist-1980s-stub