My internship with NFL Media began in May 2018. It was the first major media company I worked for and my first time in California.

After over three months with the NFL, I was hooked.

I spent time working with the staff in the newsroom, helped out some of the NFL Fantasy writers and then traveled out to training camps and preseason games to cover the Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Chargers. The experience was remarkable – both professionally and personally.

I spend the next eight months determined to get back out there. The next summer, I was able to secure a full-time position for the summer of 2019 before my final year at Quinnipiac. The job was similar, but with more experience came much more responsibility. I was trusted to write more in-depth pieces and cover more camps. This allowed me to be more creative as a writer and to pick and choose my spots. Obviously there were certain storylines that I had to cover at camps, but I was given more freedom to write about topics I found intriguing.

Included here are my articles (from both stints) at training camps, minicamps and news stories from my days in the office.

Ravens adding 3 women to coaching, analytics spots

The Baltimore Ravens are welcoming three women to their camp this summer to help assist coaches and front office members, the team announced this week.

Lori Locust will be working with the defensive coaches starting in training camp and running through the first three preseason games. Elena Grigelevich is slated to be in the office with the analytics team throughout training camp. Erica Vinson-Ondecko will assist Ravens specialists coach Randy Brown on the first day of mandatory minicamp this week.

"I've been doing this so long that up here, in this area, people don't look at me as a woman coach," Locust said via the official team site. "In a backwards way, I find that to be the highest compliment. I want to be seen as a coach first, then a woman. I'm a coach that happens to be a woman."

Read the full story here.

intern, newsLogan ReardonJune 12, 2018