I was about to enter high school in the summer of 2006 when I sat down at a computer one night and started a baseball blog. At the time I wasn't totally sure what I wanted to do, and I'm still not totally sure why exactly I chose to start that blog. Nonetheless, here I am all these years later with a degree in journalism and communication and a career in sports writing. 

 

That blog, which I operated for four years, turned into opportunities to write for publications including Minnesota GameDay, Twins Magazine and Maple Street Press in the years that followed. 

 

Not long before heading to Iowa State University in 2010, I was contacted by Triumph Books to author a book on the Minnesota Twins. 100 Things Twins Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die hit shelves in March 2011. While at Iowa State, I worked for the Iowa State Daily for three years, acting as a sports editor, assistant sports editor and a sportswriter while covering men's basketball, football, wrestling and volleyball at various times.

 

I interned at the Des Moines Register in the summer of 2013 and acquired skills for the changing journalism world including social media and video to go along with reporting. After graduating from Iowa State in May 2014 with a degree in journalism and a general business minor, I interned for MLB.com in St. Louis where I covered the daily aspects of Major League Baseball, including 28 of 46 games solo.

 

My official professional career began shortly after with Scout, where I covered Iowa State football and men's basketball with a strong emphasis on reporting and breaking recruiting news. I'm currently covering Iowa State football, basketball and recruiting as an employee at CBS Interactive — specifically at 247Sports — where CycloneAlert.com has continued to grow in recent years, attracting site-record visitors and sessions in 2019.