>> I'm where I am now because of a lot of hard work
and I think just things convoluted together.
I had a lot of experience throughout college, in news and sports and then I was able
to get internship with ESPN, after my senior year here at Penn State.
And that led me into a career that has now spanned 10 years.
So it's a passion for sports, it's a passion for telling stories,
it's a passion for creating content that's really led me to, you know,
what has been a great career so far.
I was offered an internship after my fourth year here at Penn State.
I had one more semester to go, so I wasn't necessarily done with school,
and I took the internship knowing that ESPN tries
to turn its interns into fulltime employees.
So going into the internship, I made sure that I was working as hard as I could to prove to them
that yes, I would be a viable, fulltime employee candidate.
So after I returned to college for one semester, to ironically student teach
for my education degree, they offered me a fulltime position, you know, the next,
then January of the next year, and just from then, proved from my internship
that I belonged there and I was a valuable you know, contributor to the company.