The first time Lauren Stowell \u201906 (CLAS) walked into a television production truck, she knew this was how she wanted to make a living.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was organized chaos, and you could cut the tension with a knife,\u201d says Stowell, who was working as a runner for ESPN that day for a UConn basketball game when she was a student. That meant she was doing every little odd job the ESPN crew needed during their time in Storrs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember looking at the producer and the director in front of the board calling camera shots. There were graphics people yelling. It was the most chaotic, but beautiful, orchestra of madness I ever experienced. When I went home, I told my dad, I am not sure what I just experienced, but I want to be doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stowell knew about sports at an early age, as her father, Bob Stowell \u201971 (CLAS), was a UConn football student-athlete and then a long-time photographer at Husky events.<\/p>\n
Lauren Stowell, who graduated with a degree in journalism with a concentration in pathobiology, is now a features producer at ESPN and a five-time Sports Emmy Award winner.<\/p>\n