I figured the best way to combine the two was through sports journalism, and that’s what led me to leave home and attend the University of Oklahoma at Norman. The campus was beautiful, the city was a great place to live, and OU has one of America’s best student newspapers, the OU Daily. I wrote for the Daily from 2020-2023, working my way up from a rookie writing about cardboard cutouts to lead sports reporter covering the Women’s College World Series, a variety of Sooners sports, and our high school sports report. For my work, I won two Associated Press Sports Editors awards in 2022 and 2023, and am now one of the many OU Daily alumni embarking on (hopefully) successful careers in the industry.

Covering high school sports for the Daily taught me the importance of local journalism, something I appreciate here in Las Cruces. Everyone has a story to tell, and it’s my job to tell those stories and highlight what’s special about them. I also strive to be a trusted, informative voice that people can follow, especially at a time when trust in the media is declining.

I am very ambitious and have set my sights high. I hope this is not my only stop, as I hope to eventually achieve even greater things in my career. But while I am here, I hope to be a consistent, informative and thoughtful voice in the Las Cruces community. I hope this is a new era of sports reporting here, one that I am excited to lead.