Loving Sports and Not Being An Athlete

Ever since I was young I have always loved sports.

I don’t know if it was the atmosphere, intensity of a game, or the slight glance of history you get after the result of every game but I never got bored watching one.

I wasn’t forced into them at an early age or had the athletic ability in my genes.

I’ve never had a sibling to play a sport nor have I ever played a high school sport that involved keeping score. (you guessed it I was a cheerleader!)

In high school, you could catch me at every football game, baseball game, basketball game, and occasional softball game. Even my least favorite sports were never boring to watch.

Honestly, I can say I learned what I know now from being forced to cheer at games and wanting to know the rules so I knew what was going on. Also, my friends who actually were athletes and dang good ones at that.

One of my best friends in high school was actually a three-star athlete playing softball, volleyball, and cheerleading. To say I was jealous of how talented she was is an understatement. So talented in fact, she committed to play softball at Troy University her sophomore year. I am still jealous but also very proud of my stellar bestie!

But ever since I was 10, I knew I wanted to be standing on the sidelines at the baseball college world series talking about absolutely nothing but a left-handed pitcher that tops 93 and would probably get drafted in the top 10 rounds of the next MLB draft.

Being a girl trying to make it in the sports industry is already hard enough, but not having experience in the sports world itself and trying to talk about them doesn’t make much sense, I know. For a while, it made me second guess my career choice and if I would be able to do it to the best of my ability.

Also, people thinking just because I could talk in front of a camera meant I thought I knew everything about every sport and let me be the first to admit i do not at all.

Then I realized that even the best in the business get criticized. You could literally be the best and someone will still have something to say and thats just how it goes. It isn’t about how much you know, it’s about how much you’re willing to learn.

Whether it be from learning from other people or watching and taking it in, if you want to succeed at something bad enough you’ll learn everything you need to know.