Tracy Wolfson receives Jewish broadcasting award
CBS reporter Tracy Wolfson of Tenafly is the first recipient of the Margaret Lambert Outstanding Achievement in Broadcasting by a Jewish Woman award, presented by the Jewish Sports Heritage Association.
Ms. Wolfson, a six-time Emmy Award-nominated reporter for CBS Sports, has covered U.S. Open tennis championships, auto racing, skiing, ice skating, gymnastics, and track and field.
Her award is named in memory of Margaret Lambert. Gretel Bergmann, aka Margaret Bergmann-Lambert, was a German-born Jewish Olympic track and field athlete. She prepared to compete in the 1936 Olympic games for Germany, with stats equaling the German high jump record, and qualified for the Berlin Olympics but was banned from the team because she was Jewish. She eventually emigrated to the United States, where she won several national championships in track and field. Her life story was the subject of the HBO documentary, “Hitler’s Pawn.”
The Jewish Sports Heritage Association is a not-for-profit education organization whose mission is to educate the public about the role Jewish men and women have played, and continue to play, in the world of sports, an area of Jewish accomplishment often overlooked.
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