My name is Kamron Selby and I recently graduated from Texas State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communications with a minor in Business. I grew up in Lockhart, Texas, which is about 30 miles southeast of Austin. In high school, I played both football and basketball and was also a percussionist in the band. I was a member of the National Honor Society and was awarded Academic All-State in both sports I played in during my senior year.

I have always considered myself a skilled writer, but it was not until 2017 that I decided to fully embrace my ability to write as a potential career option. I would frequently perform well on major tests throughout by adolescent years and even earned the highest writing score on the ACT in my class at Lockhart High School. I would often push the maximum limits of required pages for assignments. I remember back when I was 13, we had to write a three page report on a famous person of our choosing in English class, and naturally, I decided to write about my favorite athlete, Tim Duncan. I could have settled to get the easy A, but I ended up writing an eight page essay on his life up to that point. For whatever reason, I found joy in researching and finding out all these crazy facts about him, which is just one example of many that I have.

I started watching football and basketball from a young age, but really got into knowing player names, stats, and all of the sort during the 2005 season when I was eight years old. College football and the NBA were the two that caught my eye the most, but that very well could have been due to both the Texas Longhorns and San Antonio Spurs each winning respective championships that year. I remember always talking and debating as kids with others, who’s only argument for why the Cowboys were not very good was because “they sucked.” There was no denying years of them struggling since the retirements of Michael Irvin and Troy Aikman at the start of the millennium, but I would want to find a rationalization for why they were not doing well. It started from memorizing the starting lineups and being able to tell my school janitor at lunch who won the Super Bowl since 1990 by heart at just ten years old. Then telling friends the origin stories of football and basketball, things that happened well over 80 years prior. My dad would tell people that he “created a little sports monster.” He was definitely not wrong!

In junior high, I started making excel spreadsheets and began predicting games for the NFL. I would try to find analysts I liked and would write down their weekly predictions of games and compete against them. From 2009 to 2015, I would consistently beat them every year, until one managed to tie with me in 2016. In addition to predicting games, I started playing fantasy football in 2011. I have typically performed very well, and when I got to college, I began to be a consultant to friends about advice for their teams. I began realizing the biggest satisfaction was not being right all the time, because it impossible to predict the future correctly, but being able to be the guy that others would go to for advice was a huge confidence booster in my knowledge and abilities. Last year, I ran fantasy teams for four different people, and was able to place first for each in their respective leagues. Obviously that is not something to put on a resume, however it confirms in certain aspects, I know what I am talking about.

My passion for spending hundreds of hours looking into learning new things and coming up with definitive opinions that, in my opinion, exceed many who are on the national stage being able to talk and write about sport for a living. I still have so much to learn, but I know my desire to make a career out of talking about what I love cannot be matched. Whether it be writing feature stories, broadcasting, or even becoming an analyst, I know I have what it takes to be successful. I have so much to learn across each platform, but I am looking forward to gaining as much experience as possible and the challenges that come with the popular field that is covering sport.