Danielle Trotta is an American personality who works as a journalist and covers car racing for Sirius XM. She has remained a co-host for NASCAR Race Hub and has also worked for the pre-race show NASCAR RaceDay which covers Xfinity Series events for Fox Sports 1. Trotta started her professional life, pushing to become a journalist in high school. She graduated from the University of Carolina at Charlotte and landed right away with the work of a journalist on the local channel WBTV. She had to change jobs in July 2010 to Fox Sports, where she started beating NASCAR and NFL. Later this job in 2018, she started working with the cast of the Boston Sports Tonight show on NBC Sports Boston.
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early life
Danielle was in Westchester County, New York, on March 13, 1981, where she was raised all her life until she reached adulthood. She was raised by her loving and caring parents named Phyllis and Dan Trotta along with a younger sister, Andrea. The Trotta family had to move to Richmond, Indiana when Danielle was just 10 years old and before high school, and had to move to Carmel for business reasons. Trotta started her career for professional life at a young age.
She started getting TV appearances while attending Carmel High School, for which she started working on the 24-hour local broadcaster, presenting as a presenter between 1995 and 1999. While on the local broadcaster at her school, she took she competed in consecutive state championships in swimming, driving and springboard diving. Trotta enrolled in the four colleges before completing her graduation from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a degree in mass journalism.
Career Danielle Trotta
During her time in college, Trotta applied for several internships and landed one herself on Indianapolis television stations and the Charlotte, North Carolina-based stations WCNC-TV and WBTV. After graduation, she was hired as a weekend journalist for WBTV. Danielle Trotta started working as a photographer and later had a chat with the station’s management about her television appearance. She convinced the team and made her first film debut in 2007 after the departure of Kricket Morton. Trotta soon began hosting several shows, including Sports Saturday Night and co-hosting The Point After with D&D on Sunday nights. Later in August 2006, she moved to the station’s sports department. She continued to work for WBTV until 2010 and transferred to Fox Sports in July.
Despite leaving the channel completely, WBTV won one of the awards for its special sports program First Class, to which she contributed in 2010. Trotta also featured herself on one of the ACC Network’s programs and halftime shows called The ACC Blizz. She started writing football columns for Charlotte Weekly, among others. She also became the weekly NASCAR and ACC football contributor for Charlotte-based talk show radio station ESPN 30. After that, Trotta became part of NBC Sports NASCAR coverage in 2019 and began hosting the “Victory Lap,” one of the post-race shows about races in the cup series. On August 3, 2020, Trotta along with many other on-air personalities were all released from the network due to the decision of NBC Universal’s parent company.
Biography of Danielle Trotta |
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| Real name | Danielle Trotta |
| Date of birth | March 13, 1981 |
| Age (from 2022) | 41 years |
| Birthplace | Westchester County, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Profession | Journalist |
| Religion | Christianity |
| sun sign | pieces |
Physical Statistics |
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| Height | in feet inches – 5′ 8” – in Centimeters – 172 cm |
| Weight | in kilograms – 60kg- in pounds – 132 pounds |
| shoe size | 8 (US) |
| Hair colour | blond |
| eye color | Dark brown |
| body type | Thin |
Family |
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| Father | Dan Trotta |
| Mother | Phyllis Trotta |
| Sister | Andrea Trotta |
| Brother | † |
Qualification/Education |
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| School | Carmel High School |
| High school | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
Relationship status |
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| Marital status | Married |
| Who is her husband? | Robby Benton |
| Children | † |
Private life
Danielle Trotta is a happily married woman who is currently in a long-term marital relationship with her longtime acquaintance boyfriend Robby Benton. On December 9, 2016, Trotta took the help of Instagram to reveal her joy and expressed that Benton suggested she bring up the issue of marriage while giving her a beautiful solitaire ring. Trotta said yes and the couple exchanged marriage rites a year later. Robby Benton previously co-owned the professional stock car racing team RAB Racing, which won the Xfinity Series. Later, Benton became part of Penske and joined the team as NASCAR team manager.
Danielle Trotta Net worth
Danielle Trotta has been given several opportunities to work with different platforms and show her talent to the world. It is certain that she makes enough money from her only journalism profession and makes her name famous in the industry with her involvement with Fox Sports and Sirius XM. While she has never come forward to reveal the exact numbers of her net worth, we are assuming that Trotta’s net worth is $2 million.