My name is Brenna Barkley and I am a Mass Communications student at Colorado Mesa University from Denver, Colorado. I graduate in May 2022 with my BA in Mass Communications. While I am going for my BA, I have also taken classes in Sports Management.
Over the past four years, I have worked at The Criterion which is the student newspaper at CMU, broadcasted games on the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Network and has taken sports photos for the Criterion and the Sports Information Department.
I have held many roles in The Criterion. I started with being a staff writer then eventually moved up to being the assistant sports editor in the Fall of 2020. In the spring of 2021, I moved up and have held the role of being the sports editor ever since.
I completed an Internship with Five Tool Baseball over the summer of 2021 where I would write features on the teams and athletes that competed in their tournaments. I also have an internship with the Sports Information Department at CMU where I broadcast games on the RMAC Network and have taken photos that have accompanied the previews and recaps written by the department.
In the Spring of 2021, I started my own Instagram account that has sport photos that I have taken over the past year and I will continue it moving forward. My photos have been used on websites and social media sites such as the RMAC website, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, and on the NFL Draft Diamonds Instagram page.