Resume
Education
M.S. Journalism, Medill School of Journalism
Chicago, Illinois
2019-2020
B.S.A. Biology, University of Texas at Austin
2013-2017
Work Experience
Sports Culture & Astros Writer, Chron.com
Houston, TX
01/2024-Present
Report, write human interest stories surrounding the Houston Astros
Identify trends and popular sports topics and analyze with unique voice
Use best SEO practices to drive traffic to headlines
LSU Baseball & Football Beat Writer, The Advocate/Times-Picayune
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
10/2021-08/2023
• Report on every LSU baseball game, including road trips to regular season and postseason games.
• Break news and generate feature and enterprise stories on both LSU football and baseball beats, while handling day-to-day notebooks.
• Attend routine practices, scrimmages and press conferences in addition to games to take attendance and assess eligibility status.
• Discuss LSU baseball and football news on local radio and television shows.
Iowa Football Beat Writer, The Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
01/2021- 10/2021
• Covered football, recruiting, athletics administration and women’s sports at the University of Iowa.
• Implemented a customized weekly newsletter on the Iowa Hawkeyes.
• Hosted Hawk off the Press podcast while also appearing regularly on radio shows to talk Iowa football.
News Reporter, Medill Reports
Chicago, Illinois
08/2019 – 08/2020
• Covered health care in Latinx community in Little Village, Chicago, including enterprise story on the cultural, institutional and structural barriers to accessing mental health services.
• Produced short documentaries on ski jumping, curling and staying fit during quarantine.
• Scripted and produced segments for Medill Sports Talk studio show.
• Scraped, sorted and compiled data examining carbon emissions during COVID-19 nationwide shutdown orders during March and April 2020.
• Examined systematic racism in education, sports and town leadership of Odessa, Texas, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the book, “Friday Night Lights” for master’s project. (Published in The Sunday Long Read)
• Reported and produced narrative podcast on racism in USA Fencing.
Sports Editor, Steamboat Pilot & Today
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
06/2018 - 06/2019
• Reported, wrote and photographed local high school sports, the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, U.S. Ski & Snowboard and outdoor adventurers.
• Planned weekly budget, scheduled newsletters and other social media posts, wrote stories ahead of time to run on days off and scheduled freelancers.
Sports Reporter, Globe Gazette
Mason City, Iowa
06/2017 - 06/2018
• Reported and wrote stories covering sports for 23 high schools and North Iowa Area Community College.
• Covered local NA3HL junior hockey team and races at Mason City Motor Speedway.
• Budgeted the daily print sports section, wrote headlines, formatted television and event schedules, proofread stories and compiled sports results into daily roundups.
Freelance work: NBC News THINK, The Sunday Long Read, The Dallas Morning News, Baseball America, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Community News, Texas Jewish Post, 22nd Century Media, FierceBiotech, The Forward
Awards
• APSE Category A Explanatory Top 10 “2023 marks the final recruiting class with 'Katrina kids.' This is the story of their journey home.”
• First Place College Feature, Class I, Louisiana Sports Writers Association Annual Contest 2023, “The Story of Dylan Crews”
• Second Place, Louisiana Press Association, Best Sports Story, “LSU’s Ma’Khail Hilliard takes the mound each night with angel on his shoulders”
• Third Place sports column, LPA, “Leah Vann: Addison Bockover is fighting a brain injury, this is how LSU baseball helps”
• Honorable Mention, Breaking News & College Feature, Louisiana Sports Writers Association Annual Contest 2022
• First Place Podcast “Hawk Off the Press,” Iowa Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest 2022
• First Place Sports Event Story, Colorado Press Association Better Newspaper Contest 2019
• Big Scribble Top 10 Finalist 2020
o Five-week online writing competition hosted by bestselling author Jeff Pearlman
with over 400 student contestants nationwide
• Medill Reports “Best of the Beats”
o Neighborhood Beat Honors, “Chicago’s Latinx community struggles to find answers for mental health”
o Most Mentioned Story on Twitter “Chicago’s Kansas City Chiefs bar fans erupt during playoff win”
• Selected as one of two Medill students to cover Tokyo 2020 Olympics for the Philadelphia Inquirer *did not fulfill because of COVID-19 pandemic*