When Georgia State played host to the ESPN Slam Dunk/Three-Point Shootout in 2007 during the week of the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four, a pair of GSU student-athletes posed with ESPN broadcaster Erin Andrews.
Those two student-athletes shared similar goals and aspirations with Andrews' path and they are beginning successful careers of their own since earning their degrees four years ago in 2007.
Tiffany Blackmon worked for 16 months as a production assistant at The Weather Channel here in Atlanta. She then landed a job as a Weekend Sports TV broadcaster in Lake Charles, La., at KPLC-TV. Blackmon won an AP award for her talents. She got a bigger job at ABC News Channel 25 (KXXV-TV) in Waco, Texas, as the weekend sports anchor and reporter in August, 2010, and was promoted to Sports Director in December. Her photo is in the masthead of KXXV's web site (kxxv.com). Tiffany lettered all four years in soccer at GSU and grew up in a sports family where dad played and then coached in the NFL.
Christa Mann learned all she could while at Georgia State, hanging around the sports communications office and getting experience as a CAA Sideline TV reporter and with a five-month internship at WXIA-TV, while working on campus at GSTV. For the past two years, Mann has served as the Public Relations Manager with the Atlanta Beat of the Women's Professional Soccer League. Mann has served two years as a color analyst with Fox Soccer Channel for college games and at the NSCAA. She was a WPS correspondent for several web sites as well.
Erin Andrews had started doing internships in 2000 and worked in Atlanta at Turner Sports in 2002. Eventually, Andrews landed with ESPN in 2004 covering the NHL. She has moved on to cover football sideline and pre-game shows. Andrews interviewed GSU head coach Bill Curry on the sidelines at last year's Alabama game.
Three rising professional women's broadcasters with bright futures, which is why we call them Three of a Kind.
