The Real Reason I Loved Sports Growing Up

I haven’t always known that I wanted to take the media route when it came to my future career. I’ve bounced around different ideas ever since I can remember. Despite this, I have always looked up to Erin Andrews. I’ve seen her on TV ever since I can remember and I wanted to be just like her. I loved watching her on Dancing With the Stars but I mainly loved watching her narrate sports events. I watched her all over ESPN while I was growing up. I loved watching her in everything she did because I loved sports and it was important to me to see a woman be so successful in that field. She was one of the main reasons I even began to think of journalism as an option for my future. I still don’t know exactly what I want to do, but Erin Andrews heavily pushed me towards being a sports commentator. Andrews is currently employed by FOX Sports and you can see her many accomplishments on the biography they have posted about her on the FOX Sports Press Pass website. She was the first woman to win the Pat Summerall Award. She also received Vince Lombardi’s Award of Excellence. I looked up to her before she won these awards and I was even more inspired after she did. Regardless of her line of work I was still motivated by the person she was. She was a strong, confident woman who was dominating the sports industry with her hard work and charm. She made me want to dominate anything I did, regardless if it involved sports broadcasting or not. When I was younger I felt like I was seeing her everywhere in commercials, in the sports industry, on Dancing With the Stars, and it feels like much more. She honestly just made me want to be as successful as she was and hopefully report on the same sidelines one day.