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Daniella Ponticelli is in her second season as a pre-and post-game radio host and sideline reporter for Saskatchewan Roughriders broadcasts on 620 CKRM.  In 2022, she became the first woman to work on a Riders radio broadcast. For the 2023 season, she is working contractually for the football club to produce, write and host a biweekly branded podcast — Air it out: A Saskatchewan Roughrider Podcast.

Daniella made her TSN debut as a play-by-play announcer for the 2023 IIHF Women's World Hockey Championship held in Brampton, Ont. this April. The opportunity followed her play-by-play work on all

11 games for the 2023 USPORTS women's hockey nationals in Montreal in March March. She then called multiple games, including the gold-medal final, of the 2023 World Para Ice Hockey Championships in Moose Jaw, Sask. in May.

In Fall 2022, Daniella became the first female play-by-play announcer for USPORTS football, as the full-season radio voice of the University of Regina Rams. A year earlier, she broke barriers as the full-season play-by-play announcer for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies women's hockey program. It also marked the first time a private broadcaster (Pattison Media) committed to covering a full regular and post-season of women's hockey in North America.

Following that success, Daniella provided play-by-play and rinkside reporting for several games during the 2021-22 SJHL season. She also co-hosted the 2022 and 2023 SJHL drafts, three-hour livestreamed events, working closely with teams and the league commissioner.

Daniella has also hosted two full seasons of Rattlers Rundown, a weekly television show on Access Now Sports during spring and summer, showcasing the Canadian Elite Basketball League. Pre-pandemic, she worked as a contract on-floor reporter for Saskatchewan Rush Lacrosse games in Saskatoon, and the season prior as the club's full-time host and producer of Rush TV along with in-stand announcer.

With more than a decade of news experience, Daniella strives to tell stories with accuracy, compassion and context. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniella solo anchored Global News Morning in Regina, starting first as the station's community reporter and backfill weather specialist in October 2019.
 
Daniella's versatility stems from her education in the joint Creative Communications degree-diploma program. In 2012, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in communications from The University of Winnipeg while also completing her journalism diploma from Red River College. As a student, Daniella freelanced and took on various embedding opportunities with The Canadian Forces, even taking her to the Northwest Territories. She continued writing military stories as the resident CFB Shilo reporter/photographer for the Brandon Sun out of university.
 
Working professionally ever since, Daniella has gained experience in print, broadcast and digital-first newsrooms. The summer of 2019, she worked casually as a videographer, web writer and social media presenter for CBC Saskatchewan, while also joining the MaxTron video crew as a camera operator at Mosaic Stadium. She was a senior web editor and reporter/anchor for Rawlco Radio in Saskatoon and Regina from 2016-2018. Before that, she worked in television news as a video journalist for CTV Winnipeg and a host/producer for Shaw TV Saskatoon, as well as a print reporter for the Winnipeg Sun.