MORE ABOUT COURTNEY
Born and raised in the bluegrass, Lexington will always be my home. I grew up going to Keeneland and watching Kentucky games, and my love for the state runs through my veins.
I graduated from LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication in December 2020. Growing up with family on the bayou, I always knew to cheer for the Tigers once the Kentucky game was over. As a senior sports reporter and product for LSU Tiger TV, I covered a whirlwind couple of years that included an SEC Championship in gymnastics, men's and women's March Madness appearances and of course the 2019 National Championship run. They teach you the alma mater on the first day of orientation down in sweet Baton Rouge, and I will always yell "Forever LSU."
After graduating a semester early, I was fortunate enough to start my career close to home. In April 2021 I started as a Sports Reporter and Anchor for WYMT. It has been a dream to cover not just Kentucky football and basketball, but more than forty high school athletic programs. Telling the stories of young athletes who overcome great adversity and still go on to play college ball and win state championships has become my passion.
At the end of 2023, I accepted a position with WCIA in Champaign, Illinois. I'm so excited to be working at the official station of the Fighting Illini and travel to all football and men's basketball games during the regular season and postseason. The Big Ten is definitely different than the SEC, but offers a ton of unique opportunities to tell stories. My partner, Sydney, and I are excited to embrace the community in Chambana.
Right before starting my junior year of high school, I was diagnosed with an aggressive strain of thyroid cancer. The last two years of high school were filled with surgeries, treatments, and all in all just feeling like garbage all the time. Going into college, I was finally healthy and have been living with cancer ever since. My dad received the same diagnosis in February of 2018, and my family has continued to spread information about thyroid health. At my first fundraiser cocktail event during Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month in September 2022, we raised over $1.5k for the Thyroid Cancer Survivors Association.