About
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” ~ Jackie Robinson
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Brooke Hundley is a 2008 Graduate of Ithaca College with a dual degree in Television & Radio – Video Production Concentration, and Business Management. She has gained a great deal of media knowledge having interned with Air Force Space Command Public Affairs, HBO Documentaries, Warner Bros Productions “Moonlight,” Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC Studios, and NBC Sports Olympic Games. It was at the Summer Olympics that she revisited her childhood love of baseball as the sole Production Assistant for all Olympic coverage. Working 18-20 hour shifts at a time and filling in at times as an Assistant Director, Researcher, Assistant Producer, Talent Coordinator and any other role that might be necessary during this month long assignment, led her to a position at ESPN as a production assistant for college football and Major League Baseball.
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It is there she continued to develop her production skills, producing weekly segments for broadcast ranging from opening teases, to baseball analyst breakdowns to rivalry recaps. She also developed her own internal group designed to create and implement a social media presence as a complement to the broadcast, resulting in successful campaigns for College World Series, Little League World Series and X Games, and an increased use of Twitter as a resource across the company for talent to communicate more effectively with their core audience. She hopes to be able to continue in the world of sports as a young, production minded self-starter with talent at bridging the gap between sports teams and fans.
To You Out There,
Welcome to my new website, I hope you will spend some time taking a look around and enjoy engaging in conversation on a wide range of sports topics with me. Meanwhile if you want learn to a little something about the girl behind the scandal then you’ve come to the right section.
These past few months have been difficult to say the least, I’ve been called every name in the book by people who know little about me other than my role in what the tabloids pieced together to be a scandalous news item to sell more papers day after day. I came to learn a hard lesson that regardless of a lack of any factual evidence and with pleas by both families involved not to publish a private matter that had been resolved a month before, the news outlets have no problem slaughtering lives and reputations in the name of a bigger audience. I’ve made mistakes at 22, who hasn’t, the only difference is that the world got to voice their opinion on mine and in return I’ve had to find my inner strength and surround myself with a support system of positive people I have been lacking much of my life.
The more time I’ve spent in the past few months reliving the situation and reminding myself of who I am as a person and the lines I would not cross regardless of what had been leveraged against me, the more I have come to believe that my presence here on earth has a different meaning than the media and the hateful disbelievers have tried to frame it as. As part of my growing up I’ve been reminded each and every day that our actions have far reaching consequences and I have learned a great deal about one’s own responsibility in making the right choices to alter the way your life plays out. I can look back and see so many opportunities in which I allowed the emotional ploys by others to make my decisions for me rather than fighting for myself. I wish now I had not been so quick to give up on finding a source of help in a situation that was bigger than I could control instead of making a rash decision, an attention grabbing cry for help, that would negatively impact other lives. There were moments, pivotal decisions, that brought me down a road I couldn’t turn back on, but those I can only accept as part of what defines me now.
Sometimes it takes the whole world crashing down around you to see what’s important in life. In all of the negativity I can find gratitude. Gratitude that the road I was taking was so career focused that I was blinded to the good things I had in my life. Now I can stop to be thankful for a family that loves me and forgives the poor judgment I made. Thankful for the friends who called in to remind me that they know the person I am and that that which has been published is not the girl they know and love, especially those who turned down constant inquiries by the press for made up “dirt” on me in exchange for a great deal of money, as no such dirt could be found anywhere in my past. And thankful for you, the countless strangers who understand that not everything one reads in the tabloids should be taken for the truth. For those of you who have stopped here to get to know me as a person and see what I can contribute to the sporting world on my own accord. The fact that I have survived this ordeal and can sit here writing this is an achievement in itself. Each of us are works in progress in life, I am as imperfect as anyone and I hope someday I can gain back the respect of people for who I am rather than being defined by a bad choice I made early on in life. Someone once told me what good is a lesson learned if you only get one shot at it, thanks to everyone who is willing to give me that 2nd chance, I will not disappoint.
-Brooke
