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I've often said that the only feeling to rival that of taking the field with your teammates is the high of a good interview. As a writer on the NCAA's editorial team, I'm lucky to tell the best human-interest stories in sports. Check out some of my favorites.
Features
June 2026 - Present | NCAA
Inside Brooke Mayo’s journey from Tennessee Tech to FIFA World Cup official | Oct. 5, 2026 | ncaa.org
The Tennessee Tech soccer alum is the first openly gay official to call a men’s World Cup game. She’s a fan at her core.
Brooke Mayo knows what it’s like to be the first.
She made history as a member of the first all-American, all-woman officiating trio to call a FIFA men’s World Cup game in 2026. In the same game, she became the first openly gay official on soccer’s biggest stage.
But inside the assistant referee lacing up her boots alongside soccer’s greats is still the 13-year-old kid who needed Xbox money and couldn’t get enough of her favorite sport.
“The first game I ever did, I made $9, cash money,” Mayo said with a grin.
As seen in: This story was included in The Gist's Oct. 7 newsletter.
From ACL reconstruction to national title, Lehigh's Audrey Jimenez finds freedom in faith | Oct. 14, 2026 | ncaa.org
The 2-time U.S. Open Wrestling champion wanted to quit. Instead, she won the 110-pound title at the NCAA’s first women’s wrestling championships.
Audrey Jimenez was winning. But it didn’t feel like it.
The Lehigh sophomore women’s wrestler was well on her way to finishing the 2025-26 season with a perfect 21-0 record and an individual title at the NCAA’s inaugural women’s wrestling championships. She wanted to be anywhere else.
“I would go to practice, and I would get so much anxiety. I would be warming up, we didn’t even start wrestling yet, and my mind, I could not get my thoughts off of, like, ‘I don’t want to wrestle. I don’t want to be here.’ That’s all that was going through my head, and I would get these crazy anxiety attacks,” said Jimenez, the 2026 USA Wrestling Anthony-Maroulis Trophy winner, given to the top women’s college wrestler.
How former NCAA lacrosse standout Madison Doucette is engineering the future of her sport | Aug. 14, 2026 | ncaa.org
The Northwestern and Johns Hopkins alum applies lessons from college sports to engineering and professional lacrosse.
Madison Doucette takes building the future of women’s sports to the next level.
When the former NCAA lacrosse student-athlete is done with her workday as an industrial design engineer at lacrosse equipment manufacturer ECD Lacrosse, she’ll hop on the assault bike in the company’s warehouse to train for her upcoming competitions as a professional goalkeeper in the budding Women’s Lacrosse League.
“Ninety-five percent of my workouts are in the back of the warehouse with old barbells and grit,” Doucette said with a smile.
Related:
NCAA Legacy Lab stocks entrepreneurial toolboxes, empowering student-athletes to build | Sept. 17, 2026 | ncaa.org
Unlocking his gift: How Quintin Jordan found his passion as an NCAA postgraduate intern | Sept. 2, 2026 | ncaa.org
‘Say yes’: How Susanna Weir found her voice in sports as an NCAA postgraduate intern | Aug. 5, 2026 | ncaa.org
Kaley McIntyre’s climb: The DIII Honda Athlete of the Year’s rise to swimming dominance | July 27, 2026 | ncaa.org
Team IMPACT match gives Southern California’s Gala Trubint perspective and purpose | July 15, 2026 | ncaa.org
Capstone project: "Everyone watches women's sports": How the birth of women's sports bars proves it's time to see women differently
April 2025 | Regis University English and communications
This story was presented at Regis's Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship. It culminates multiple semesters of research on journalism and media representations of women athletes.
Earlier work:
La-Crossing the Pond: The character-building experience of the Crosse Over lacrosse program | January 2026 | What's Up? Annapolis Magazine
Rangers shoot lights out in blowout win over CSU Pueblo | January 18, 2025 | Regis University
Challenger Little League program grows alongside PaddleHeads' commitment to community | July 19, 2023 | Missoula PaddleHeads
PaddleHeads reliever Mark Timmins signs with Los Angeles Angels | June 22, 2023 | Missoula PaddleHeads