Seattle, Washington, United States
Hi, I'm Becca! I'm a recent graduate, former D1 club athlete, and passionate professional with a diverse background across the sports industry. My operations experience includes working with the Seattle Mariners' Ballpark Operations Crew, where I have refined my skills in game day and event management, and with the University of Oregon’s track and field team, gaining insights into athletic program operations and equipment management. My communications experience includes serving as President of Oregon Women in Sports Communications, where I led initiatives to support women in sports and oversee strategic projects. As a staff writer for multiple sports publications, my roles have enhanced my communication abilities and provided a well-rounded perspective on the industry. I have spent over seven years producing on-site coverage, conducting interviews, and writing a wide range of storytelling styles. I’m looking forward to exploring opportunities in operations and communications, and am eager to bring my skills and enthusiasm to a dynamic team. Let’s connect!
-Responsible for writing daily news updates, longer features articles, and monthly analysis about players and team-focused reports on a WordPress-based website. -News updates include gathering links such as articles and Twitter posts that summarize and update readers on the current status of trades, injuries, and MLB happenings. -Three years of press box and clubhouse experience during game days including player interviews, media sessions, and on-site recaps. -Created a high profile feature series on women in the Mariners’ front office, exploring their contributions and highlighting the intersection of gender, leadership, and baseball that gained over 12,000 page views.
-Write monthly articles covering team news, trades, and game recaps surrounding Seattle Reign FC, Seattle Cascades, and Seattle Tempest. -Press box and closed practice experience.
-Complete daily tasks at the ballpark during gamedays and non-gameday events. -Gameday tasks include setup, teardown, and oversight of pre-game, post-game, and in-game promotions and events, supervising promotional giveaways, setup of concourse and concessions, working the manual scoreboard, escorting VIP guests to the field, and ensuring smooth overall operations of the ballpark. -Non-gameday events include setup, teardown, and oversight of concerts, dinners, seminars, corporate events, and small group events. -Worked 2024 MLB All-Star Game in Seattle to create unforgettable experience for 47,159 fans.
-Led a class of 30 students to produce the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication’s first ever sports and outdoors magazine, an 11x14, 124 page print piece. -Conducted interviews with high profile athletes for articles such as 1500-meter Olympic champion Cole Hocker and extreme kayaker Nouria Newman. -Led the class in the editorial process of editing, fact-checking, story organization, draft review, and article flow for 20 print stories and eight website features. -Worked closely with the design team to bring hundreds of magazines to print.
-Daily tasks include data and spreadsheet analysis, business affairs, travel expenses, internal communication, recruiting database management, home meet oversight, and general program organization for 110 athletes and staff. -Created a new organizational system for internal recruiting standards to track performance compared to conference and national marks. -Support coaches in recording athletes’ performance during competitions including playback analysis. -Part of five Pac-12 Championships, four Big 10 Championships, 1 NCAA Indoor Championship, and numerous school records during four years with the track and field program.
Work with decathlon, pole vault, and sprint coaches one-on-one at practice every day to assist in moving equipment, measurements, timekeeping, and recording video. Monitor equipment room, including organizing shoes, uniforms, packing gameday gear in backpacks, doing laundry, sorting and documenting inventory, and assisting with athlete equipment requests such as sizing and new gear. Assist with equipment, setup, teardown, and filming at home meets and travel with team to away meets.