Looking forward at my life, I must first look back at the most recent time in my life. I have been a huge fan of sports since a child. I always remember obsessing over numbers and statistics. Photography has always been an interest of mine. However, I felt a career in Sport Information would always be out of reach.
Finding my way into high school athletics led me to believe that a career would be possible. It was finding the pathway that would be problematic. Discovering it here at Kent State now leads me to believe what is truly possible. And with graduation looming in less than a year, I figured out what I want to do and where I want to go with my life, 20 years after graduating high school.
My goal is simple with where I want to go. I want to serve a college or university as a sports information or communications director. A job with little to no glamour, sitting at the scorer’s table or being on the baseline taking pictures, doing jobs that are hidden yet important to the events.
Where I end up that’s for fate to decide. I will be happy anywhere I feel safe. Being a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, I need to be somewhere we are welcomed and protected, because there are places that want to erase us from existence. Erase our history and our future.
My greatest strength is my passion, zeal, creativity, curiosity, hope, and vision. As a previous boss said, I would always be around, looking for something to do. I say I try to be the first one out when nothing is going on, the first one to turn around when something comes up, and the last one out when there’s stuff to do.
My purpose in life is to support others and enhance the student-athlete experience. With my future in mind, that is what I want to do. I want to work in athletics and be a support structure to the school that employs me.
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