Abigail Chin
Abigail Chin
Abigail Chin also known as Abby Chin is an American sports journalist based in Boston, Massachusetts. She currently serves as the Boston Celtics courtside reporter for NBC Sports Boston.[1]
Education
Chin graduated from Desert Vista High School. She went on to attend the University of Colorado Boulder, where she received a Bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.
Career
Abby Chin pictured on her Instagram
She was previously a reporter covering the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers and PAC-12 football for NBC Sports Portland and sports reporter at CBS42.
Chin was also a production assistant for Monday Night Football.
In August 2020, Chin and 18 other colleagues at , including longtime host Gary Tanguay and reporters A. Sherrod Blakely and Joe Haggerty, were among the local victims of a massive layoff by parent company NBCUniversal, which were expected to affect 10 percent of the company’s approximately 35,000 full-time employees. Chin's fans deployed the #freeabby hashtag on Twitter and signed a change.org petition to convince NBC Sports Boston to retain her. “THANK YOU EVERYONE for all of the love and support!,’’ she wrote on Twitter. “I truly can’t describe how much it means to me. You are giving me so much light during this difficult week. I will cherish it always! But, this isn’t goodbye just yet. When I received the news, I was offered the choice to finish out the season and I’m taking it! I’m not ready for this incredible ride to be over.”[15]
Personal Life
She is married to Mike Schmidt, whom she met at ESPN in Connecticut. The couple both a daughter together named Mabel, born in 2015.
Mabel was born the night before Christmas.
In an interview with The Boston Globe, Chin told:
“It was crazy and it all happened so fast.
She wasn’t due for another two weeks or so.
A Christmas Eve surprise, that’s what she was.”[14]
“We had just gotten home from the hospital and ‘Celtics Insider,’ the magazine show that I do, was airing for the first time that Saturday.
We shot the standup for that my last day at work [on Dec. 21].
Here I am, home with my daughter, and I turn on the TV and there I am, still pregnant.
It was funny how much had happened in my life since we shot that.”[14]
Over New Year’s weekend, Mabel wasn’t eating well.
She was lethargic and sleeping constantly.
“We just felt like something was off,’’ said Chin.
On Monday, they took Mabel to the pediatrician.
The pediatrician examined the baby, then sent her immediately to the emergency room.
Mabel was diagnosed with severe coarctation of the aorta, which was preventing her heart from pumping blood to the lower half of her body. Mabel was admitted to intensive care at Boston Children’s Hospital within the hour. She had open-heart surgery when she was 13 days old.[14]
On January 11, 2019, the couple welcomed their second child, Silas John Schmidt, weighing 6 pounds, 13 ounces.[7]