Diana Meier

Biography

 

 

 

 

Meet Diana Meier, a leading Women’s Sports Advocate.  Her passion for sports started over a decade ago with basketball. She and her twin sister got the first athletic scholarships to attend college.  Diana is very well known for her hook shot and even taught Hakeem Olajuwan his hook shot while attending the University of Houston.

     After college, Diana became a professional basketball player overseas in England, Sweden, New Zealand and Spain and spread her enthusiasm for the sport at clinics, promotional activities and even with her own radio talk show in New Zealand.  Her dream was to come back to the States and do powerful things in women’s sports. 

     Since 1989, Diana has pioneered the following entertainment projects:  Hosted and produced,
W Sportz,
a women’s sports talk show on Cable; was the first woman to host women’s sports on the Fred Wallen Show; and hosted her own radio show, Women’s Sports Talk, for 5 years on KPFK. You may have seen Diana on TV as she has appeared on over 200 TV shows, usually as an athlete, or detective on shows such as: Strong Medicine, Arli$$, ER, Coach, NBC’s WNBA Game Patrol, Barbie-Mattel Commercial and believe it or not she did an impersonation of “Janet Reno” on Safe Harbor and Dharma and Greg.   She’s very well known for the part she played as “Inga” on Who’s the Boss? 

     As part of two of the tallest twins in the world, the Meier’s have done several national talk shows including: Maury Povich, Montel Williams, Geraldo, and Judge For Yourself.  Did you see them on Disney’s re-make of Escape to Witch Mountain? 

     Diana also speaks several times a year to various audiences as a Motivational Speaker about her passion and vision for women’s sports.

 


Diana Meier  
P.O. Box 341, Santa Monica, CA  90406