About Me

Upbringing

I grew up in Novi, Michigan, about 45 minutes from Detroit. I’m the second-oldest of four children and come from a family of doctors – my dad is an ear doctor, my mom is a gynecologist and both my brothers are studying to go into the medical field.

When choosing a college towards the end of my senior year of high school, I was certain I would attend Michigan State University and study business. I knew that I didn’t want to go into medicine, and I thought that I would want to go into finance or accounting.

On the night before the deadline to declare my college decision, I changed my mind and decided that I wanted to move further from home. I decided on Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, due to the small-school appeal and the unfamiliarity – I wanted to push myself to expand my boundaries and experience something new.

Time at Miami

I started as a finance major at Miami, figuring I was good at math and thinking I would want to own a business someday. On the way down to campus for the first time on move-in weekend, I emailed the sports editor of The Miami Student and asked about joining. I liked watching football and writing, and I wanted something to keep me out of my dorm room.

He responded immediately and asked if I wanted to cover the football team’s season opener against Kentucky. Throughout that year, I wrote five other stories about basketball, field hockey and sports gambling.

Although I wanted to transfer to the University of Michigan, I confused the application deadline by one week and was stuck at Miami for at least one more year. I figured if I was in Oxford, I would add journalism as a second major to keep my options open.

I started writing more for The Student and attended more meetings, leading to me getting moved up to assistant sports editor and eventually sports editor later that spring.

While sports editor, I realized that I wanted to pursue sports journalism more than anything else. I wrote 128 stories in my junior year alone and took up the football and men’s & women’s basketball while also writing stories about hockey, volleyball, baseball, softball and synchronized skating. I won a regional Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2025 in Best College Sports Writing for a profile I wrote on Miami football’s placekicker.

I also added bylines to other parts of the paper, including our Campus & Community, Culture, Opinion and GreenHawks (environmental reporting) sections. During my senior year, I began working on multimedia work, specifically in photography with my Nikon D7500.

I finished my time as sports editor at The Student with more than 250 bylines, setting the record for the 200-year-old publication. I’ve traveled across the Midwest covering football games in my junior and senior years, including drives to Ford Field, Notre Dame University and the University of Wisconsin, as well as a trip to Tucson, Arizona, for the 2025 Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl.

During my tenure, the sports section won awards and received recognition from the Ohio News Media Association and the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists. I also won a regional Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for Best College Sports Writing in 2025.

Looking Ahead

After graduating from Miami in spring of 2026, I plan on working as a sports multimedia journalist for a publication in the Midwest. In the future, I anticipate completing my masters in journalism at Northwestern University with an end goal of working at ESPN.