Blaine Lewallen

Performed a variety of different tasks, such as website management, story writing, public address announcing, gameday operations, intern management, livestream setup, stat keeping, and multiple other duties as assigned.

Attended scout days, tournaments and showcases organized by Prep Baseball Report in the Chicago Suburbs and near Milwaukee, WI. Responsibilities included writing player reports, taking player video, running analytics technology, entering data, and attending meetings, among other responsibilities as assigned.

Involves the need to stay focused, using great communication skills and attentiveness in order to meet the needs of State Farm's customers. Worked in data entry, and also assisted State Farm agents around the United States answering questions over the phone and through chat services to makes changes to customer auto insurance policies.

Began as an intern in the fall 2017 semester, and continued assisting with high school sports game coverage as a stringer in the central Illinois area, along with feature stories revolving around numerous different subjects

Served as the baseball sports information director as a full-time intern until the season was cut short due to COVID-19. Conducted duties such as creating game notes, running the team's social media accounts, working with media members to conduct interviews and configuring stats after each game.

Began as a senior sports reporter, covering the women's basketball and women's soccer beats before becoming sports editor in May of 2019. As sports editor, performed numerous duties such as managing a full sports staff, covering the men's basketball and football beat, creating full sports pages for the newspaper using Adobe InDesign, organizing podcasts, and writing online sports articles, among other items as assigned.