BY: AUSTIN DYKSTRA, DUBLIN ‘18 PROGRAM PARTICIPANT & GAME AND STUDIO PRODUCTION, LAS VEGAS RAIDERS
“We must be willing to wear many hats to put the best version of ourselves forward!” This is the advice that I carried with me after returning from the Living Sport program in Dublin, 2018. After graduating from college in California, I moved back to Las Vegas. When I moved back to Vegas, the city was only home to only 3 professional sports teams, two of which had just completed each of their inaugural seasons that summer. I was breaking into my sports career in the new sports hub, and actually, I still am breaking in.
I attended California Baptist University, where I majored in History. My aspirations heading into school and even into my senior year of college were to be a teacher. However, that same year, I started working for my school's media production team for the athletics program, introducing me to instant replay, specifically for college basketball games. There, my aspirations changed. This was the time when I decided that I no longer wanted to become a teacher and instead wanted to pursue a career in sports production! Now the only problem I had was, where do I start?