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Her playing days are more than, but Baillie Burmaster’s sports journey continues to be fulfilling.
 
A native of Duluth, Ga., Burmaster was a member of the Oklahoma State soccer group from 2011-14, playing 28 games on 3 NCAA Tournament teams, which includes the ’11 Elite Eight squad, and assisting the Cowgirls to a Huge 12 championship.
 
Due to the fact leaving Stillwater, she’s created experienced stops in Lubbock, Texas, Green Bay, Wisconsin and Cleveland, Ohio, exactly where she is at present a sports anchor and reporter for Cleveland 19 News, a CBS affiliate.
 
Burmaster stated her profession path was shaped by her time at OSU.
 
“I am genuinely grateful since of the people today in Stillwater and my experiences as a student-athlete,” Burmaster stated. “I was a stroll-on who did earn a scholarship. That trajectory of functioning up the totem pole as an athlete set me up for precisely how my sector was going to be.
 
“Just the life experiences, irrespective of whether it was discovering my operate ethic or getting to have a grown conversation with my coaches – operating at that level and cultivating relationships was a substantial deal.”
 
Burmaster’s experienced journey has been filled with memorable moments.
 
Although in Lubbock, she covered Texas Tech in the College Globe Series and Patrick Mahomes’ on NFL Draft day.
 
She was in Green Bay when Aaron Rodgers and the Packers played in back-to-back NFC Championship games, then reported on the quarterback’s unhappiness with the team’s draft picks.
 
In Cleveland, she’s covered the drama surrounding former Browns’ Baker Mayfield and Odell Beckham Jr. as properly as the group trading for quarterback Deshaun Watson and has also been on the sidelines for coverage of the Cavaliers and Guardians.
 
“It is just been a exclusive encounter since I do not assume absolutely everyone gets to cover the chaos that follows me so to speak,” Burmaster stated with a laugh.
 
Although establishing herself in a challenging sector, Burmaster has objectives and dreams to do even larger factors, which includes getting a hybrid for a network and at some point branching out with her personal exclusive vision.
 
“I want to do a lot of factors – I want to host, I want to anchor, I want to sideline report,” Burmaster stated. “I want to have my personal speak show – I want to speak to athletes and dive into their brain of who they genuinely are.
 
“My crazy, crazy dream is to have my personal HBO show exactly where I can be unfiltered with athletes. A female version of Howard Stern but for sports – that is the significant dream.”
 
Burmaster says getting a former athlete provides her a various mindset for getting good results when dealing with such higher-profile performers in the planet of sports.
 
“I assume, ‘Would I want to be asked this query right after I lost?’ And it is like, ‘No,'” Burmaster stated. “Or how can I phrase this so they know that I am coming from a spot of getting genuine and not insulting them when I ask the query.”
 
As Burmaster’s ascension via the sports planet continues, she’s speedy to praise and thank these in Stillwater as the roots of her good results.
 
“My professors and counselors have been the ones to assistance guide me and figure out the arranging aspect of what was ideal for my future,” stated Burmaster, who earned degrees in sports media and advertising from OSU, “My sport counselor, Agatha Adams, and Jawauna Harding with profession solutions, along with my teachers, helped me come up with a program to attain my academic objectives whilst also not interfering with the objectives I had on the field.
 
“I know for a reality I could not be performing this devoid of the university and the people today who pushed me. Becoming a student-athlete was not generally the easiest, I’d be lying if I stated it was – it is not for absolutely everyone. But at Oklahoma State, if you think in oneself and think in what you want to attain for your future, OSU will give you all the tools to make that come about.”