Allie LaForce

Alexandra Leigh LaForce (born November 11, 1988) is an American journalist, model, and beauty pageant titleholder. She is a Turner Sports reporter, where she covers NBA matches on TNT. Prior to that, she was anchor and reporter for We Need to Talk, CBS Sports Network, covering college basketball, college football as well as SEC games. LaForce has also been an anchor and sports reporter on Cleveland FOX's WJW. She won the Emmy Award in the year 2011 when she was an anchor for FOX's Friday Night Touchdown football show. She was awarded the Miss Ohio Teen USA title for 2005, in September 2004. It was her first experience competing at the Pageant. She went on to represent Ohio at Ohio's participation in the Miss Teen USA 2005 pageant that was held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on August 8th, 2005. LaForce claimed the Miss Teen USA 2006 title over her Louisiana predecessor Shelley Hennig. Her mother Lesa LaForce (nee Rummell) was Miss Ohio USA 1977. She won a modeling deal for a full year from Trump Modeling Management and an academic scholarship from the School for Film and Television, New York City. Her appearance as a guest in The NBC soap Passions was a major success.