Let's Talk Tri Delta

Breaking Barriers in Sports Journalism

Episode Summary

Today’s episode is all about belonging as we sit down with rising sports journalist Caroline Fenton, Louisiana State. From leading her collegiate chapter as president to covering the biggest events in sports, including the Super Bowl, Caroline shares how Tri Delta shaped her confidence and prepared her for success.

Episode Notes

Caroline takes us through her exciting career journey—from interning at ESPN to her current role at Yahoo! Sports where she covers major games, events and highlights. She shares behind-the-scenes stories from her biggest sports moments, the challenges of navigating sports journalism as a woman and the resilience it takes to break barriers. Caroline offers exceptional insights from the lessons she’s learned along the way and advice for professionals looking to make their mark—whether in the press box or the boardroom.

Episode Transcription

[Caroline Fenton Transcript] 

This transcript was created using automated technologies and may contain errors.

Welcome back to our Let's Talk Tri Delta podcast. I'm Mindy Tucker, Tri Delta CEO, and

so happy to be your podcast host for today. And I'm really excited to welcome back

somebody that we have had around Tri Delta World before, Caroline Fenton from our

Delta Omega chapter at LSU. She is a sports journalist, currently working for Yahoo

Sports, but we had a chance to get to know Caroline first when she interned, well

when she was in a collegiate chapter for Tri Delta, but then when she interned at

ESPN, so I'm excited to reconnect today. From chapter president for her chapter to

now covering some of the biggest events in sports, including the Super Bowl, which

we're going to talk about, we're We're gonna hear how Tri Delta gave her the

confidence to pursue this big career that she's got and her journey so far. We're

also gonna talk a little bit of sports, which is right up my alley, I love that.

Caroline, welcome to the podcast. - Thank you so much for having me, always down to

talk a little bit of sports and a little bit of Tri Delta. Those are two of my

favorite things in the world, but so happy to be on with you today and finally

able to reconnect after all these years. - Yeah, yeah, well, It's great to see you

again and just to get to hear all the great things that are going on in your

career. I want to take our listeners back to how it all began and how you ended

up at LSU for school. Yes. So I am born and raised in St.

Louis, Missouri and love St. Louis, it is home, but my parents are both from the

state of Tennessee and I have family kind of all around the South. So I knew that

as much as I of St. Louis and as much as I considered at home, I wanted to go

to the South for school and I always had a passion for sports and I kind of

thought that maybe that would be a fun career path to pursue. So I thought, okay,

a school in the South and with big sports, and if I want to pursue sports

journalism, a school that'll give me an opportunity to do that. So I looked around

at schools that, you know, my sister went to South Carolina, my parents went to the

University of Tennessee. I thought I would end up there, a place far away from

home, but still familiar. But then I kind of applied all around just to see what

was out there. And I visited LSU. I didn't know a soul in the state of Louisiana,

never knew a soul in the state of Louisiana before I decided to go to LSU. But I

thought there's just something about it. It's gorgeous. First of all, the culture is

amazing. The people are so incredibly welcoming. And the idea of doing something that

was different, that I could have gone to a place that felt a little bit more

comfortable, had some more familiarity in my family, but I thought I can totally

pave my own path here. And at that point in my life, I was kind of ready to

branch out a little bit. So ultimately I made that decision to do something

different and go to LSU. And that was one of the best decisions I ever made in my

life. And I didn't know anyone there. So I thought the best way to make friends.

Best way to make a 30 ,000 plus person campus feel just a tiny bit smaller was to

go through recruitment. And that's ultimately what led me to Tri Delta. Another one

of the best decisions I've ever made. I love it. I love it. I know all the LSU

Tri Deltas out there like, yes, yes. My girls, my girls. I feel like there's so many

more people these days. I live in California and they're so much more aware of what

that experience is experiences at a Southern school that has sports. So many more

people are making, they just want that more traditional sort of sports college

experience. And they're deciding to go, which feels like it's such a culture shock

when I look at some of the people out here, they're doing that for them, but

they're really enjoying it. So it's interesting to hear you say, that was, you grew

up in St. Louis, but it was a little bit different. You knew what you wanted. And

I love that your family was okay with you choosing a different SEC school. I know

that can get dicey. Oh, they loved it. It was an opportunity for them to come

visit Bat Rouge, which is absolutely beautiful and an excuse for them to get gumbo

and bignets whenever they wanted. So they also fell in love as much as they loved

their own alma mater. They fell in love with LSU because it's hard not to and

because I loved it so much as well. So I also felt very lucky that I had such a

great support system in my family that they were okay with me packing up the U

-Haul and moving 800 miles away from home. So I feel very, very lucky to have that.

Good. Well, tell me a little bit about your Tri Delta experience and how you were

involved there. You were chapter president. So that's clearly an experience unto

itself. Those are not small jobs these days. So tell us a little bit about that.

Yes, not a small job in the slightest, but it was such a wonderful experience all

four years. And obviously that year is a chapter president as well. I joined

Tridelta originally because it was just the place that just felt so easy and

everyone told me that going through recruitment that there's going to be a place

that just feels right it feels easy the conversations flow and I don't think I

really understood that that was a real thing that once I walked into Tridelta I met

so many different types of people different personalities with different backgrounds

from different walks of life from different areas and I thought this is just a

place that I feel so comfortable and I feel so at home. And that doesn't mean that

it doesn't come with some trials and tribulations coming from far away. LSU, there's

a lot of kids that come from Louisiana. So whether you know someone from your high

school or you know someone from camp or just friends of friends, I felt like there

was already kind of a network that was created that I was trying to join. But try

it out to me that's so easy. I never felt like I was kind of on the outside

looking at it, I always felt embraced. I always felt celebrated. Everyone thought it

was so cool that I was from so far away, which I thought it really not from that

far. It's like two states away, but it's not that far. But I always thought that

that was so cool that I, maybe my quote -unquote differences from coming from a

different place and coming from a different hometown, that was something that was so

celebrated in the chapter. And that just encouraged me more and more that built up

my confidence more and more. And it started to feel more like home than a place

that was so far away from home. So early on, I got tapped by some of the older

members to do smaller jobs. And that would be, you know, an out of state

recruitment coordinator for all of the out of state girls in recruitment. That was

something that was, I didn't apply for. That was something that I didn't go out

for. That was something that I was kind of tapped to do, that I was asked if I

could do that and that, that And I was my sophomore year going into my sophomore

year, so my first recruitment. So I thought, wow, that's something that they thought

I would be great at, something that they looked at me and that that would be a

good fit for that. So I think that just kind of grew my confidence more and more

than I became the director of public relations and ran the Tridelta social media

account, kind of established a brand and a voice for that. I loved kind of being

days on between Tridelta and all of our social media channels and that ultimately

brought me to collegiate chapter president. And looking back, going from recruitment

where I didn't know a soul and then now being able to represent the chapter, it

was just the absolute greatest honor. I had the best support system with the rest

of the executive committee and with all of our advisors. I never felt, because it

is like you said, it's a really large job and it's a really large undertaking. And

at that point in your life, at least where I was, I had a heavy class schedule

and I was looking ahead to after graduation and trying to get internships and

applying for jobs. There's a lot on your plate, but I at least felt very lucky

that I never felt like it was too much. I never felt like I had the weight of

the world on my shoulders. I think it was an opportunity for me that I just, I

grew up so much in the best possible way that I understood I am now representing

something as I always have, but now in a larger way, something so much bigger than

myself. I got to learn member stories on a deeper level. I got to connect with so

many more members on a much deeper level. One example that I love to talk about

was when we welcomed in our new member class in the fall of 2019. So that would

have been my last year at LSU. And she came to me and she was an out of state

student as well. She came to me and she said, "I feel so homesick. I feel so out

of place. I don't want to be here anymore. I just feel like this isn't where I'm

supposed to be." Which broke my heart to hear, but I got to talk to her about it.

We talked it through. I said, "Maybe instead of trying to fit in here, how about

you share your home and your life at home with some friends that you've made here?

Maybe invite them home back to where you're from and you can show them your

favorite places from high school and they can meet your family, they can meet your

friends from home and she ultimately ended up staying at LSU. She took that advice,

she brought some some friends home and she said that that really helped. So I think

having that context in the background of me coming from out of state and also being

able to to kind of share that a little bit and make that that place feel a little

bit smaller for other people was a great way and a great opportunity I think that

I could help others while also kind of growing and developing as a professional and

a person myself. - Yeah, I love hearing about your belonging. I mean, that's what it

was. You felt belonging there, you felt like that was your home. And for somebody

who wasn't necessarily from right around there or a Louisiana girl, as you said,

you know, I love hearing that story. So you mentioned earlier, you know,

I thought sports might be an interesting career. - Yeah. - Well, it turns out, I

guess it was. How did you get started and what has that looked like for you?

- Yeah, yeah, so I grew up a sports fan my entire life. Like I said, I'm from St.

Louis, which is a huge, huge sports town, huge baseball town. That was kind of my

first love. The Cardinals got to the World Series in 2006. So I was nine years old

then, and that's when I really started to learn about the sport and went to more

games with my family. And I remember when the Cardinals were in the World Series,

I lined up my dolls and my stuffed animals. I was talking to them about what was

happening during the game 'cause I wanted them to be informed as well. So just kind

of a little bit of a foreshadowing of what I would eventually do for my career. So

that was the early stages, just loving sports and loving storytelling. And So that's

what brought me, one big reason that brought me to LSU was being able to cover LSU

football and LSU baseball and LSU women's basketball, some of the biggest brands in

all of college sports. So at LSU I got involved in Tiger TV, which is the student

run news station. I was a sports reporter and then ended up being sports director

my senior year and got to cover amazing events. I mean I covered LSU football games

almost every Saturday night at home. I got to go to Phoenix to cover LSU in the

Fiesta Bowl. I got to go to Orlando to cover LSU football in the Citrus Bowl. So

I got to go and be like an actual real life reporter. And I interned at some

local stations in Baton Rouge as well, which gave me great experience of what life

is really like in a professional newsroom or also getting that more hands on

experience with Tiger TV. So I think that was one big thing that was emphasized to

me from some people in the business when I was in college was make sure that this

is what you want to do. Because this is a really hard industry. You work weekends,

you work holidays, you work late nights, you work early mornings, and in some

situations, you don't always get compensated very well for it. But that's where I

learned that this is definitely what I want to do, even with the highs and the

lows and some of the not so glamorous parts that may come with this job. I knew

that I really had a passion for it. And so that's how I got my start. Yeah, let's

add to that, you know, a female in a male-dominated industry. I can't imagine all

the different facets there are to what you've been through. Okay, so you start at

ESPN. Yeah. And then what happens? Yes, so I, I applied to so many different jobs

by senior year of college and one piece of advice for any collegiate members

listening to this is apply. Apply everywhere. Apply to the jobs that you feel like

you do not have any business getting. Apply to the jobs you feel like are absolute

dream jobs because that's what I did. When I applied for an internship at ESPN, I

thought there is no way that I can get to ESPN. That is crazy, but I applied

anyways. And ultimately, that's the job that I got. So about a month after I

graduated, packed my stuff up, but I moved up to Bristol, Connecticut, for an

internship with the the Social and Digital Livestream team. So basically, what our

job was was to take existing ESPN shows like College Game Day and Sports Center and

baseball tonight, all of those existing shows on TV and kind of turn them to a

digital show, so a little bit more laid back, a little bit more of a younger

audience. So I had an internship doing that and then ultimately turned that into a

full -time job. So I was with ESPN doing that as a social media producer for about

a year and a half. And that was such an amazing opportunity. I got to travel with

College Game Day. That just so happened to be the year that LSU won the national

championship game. So it was just like-- I got bad timing. - The most perfect, like

the universe winged at me and said, "This is exactly where you need to be." And it

was so amazing because I got to a very unique part of working in digital is

there's no rules. And TV or in more terrestrial forms of media, you have to hit

your brakes. You have certain things and certain parameters that you have to fit

into. In digital, you throw something at the wall. And if it sticks, amazing. And

if it doesn't, that's okay, scrap it, move on from it, learn why it didn't work.

And then, and then try again. So I really loved at ESPN how I really got to kind

of flex that creative muscle. Fun. Okay. And then, is that when you move to Yahoo?

I feel like you moved from ESPN to Yahoo, was that or something else in between?

But I know you're there now. So talk about doing now. I'm a Yahoo now. I actually

had a stop in between. During COVID, I just kind of had a reflective moment,

which I feel like we all probably did when we were stuck in our homes. I had kind

of a reflective moment of, I don't think that this is what I need to be doing

anymore. I just didn't feel so passionate about the work that I was doing anymore.

And I wasn't in love with my life at the time personally and professionally. And I

thought, what am I doing? If I'm not happy, make a change, which was frankly

terrifying to go from ESPN, a place where I was so supported professionally and

financially, and I was able to be at the worldwide leader in sports. I thought it

was crazy that I would voluntarily step away from that, but I thought if I'm not

happy, I need to make a change. And I felt like I wasn't happy because ultimately

my dream, what I always wanted to do, the reason why I went to LSU and got

involved in student media was because I wanted to be on air. That was always my

dream. And I thought if I don't do it now, when am I going to? And if 30,

40 years from now, and I'm looking back on my career, I would question what could

have been? What could I have done? What could have I achieved if I would have gone

for that dream? So I thought I'm going to do it. And so I applied to several

different on -air jobs from TV to more digital roles, to a radio role.

And they're just so happened to be a radio station in Nashville, where a coworker

of mine at ESPN got his start. They were looking for somebody with some expertise

in digital live streaming, which was what I did at ESPN. And I was looking for an

opportunity on air. So it was just kind of the most perfect marriage of I had what

they needed. They could offer what I wanted in my career. So In March of 2021,

I moved from Connecticut to Nashville, and I was on air in Nashville doing sports

talk radio for about three and a half years. For two years, I was in kind of a

sidekick role that grew over those two years, but just kind of learned the business,

learned what it's like to post a radio show because I had zero radio experience.

And then after those two years, I felt like I was ready to take that next step.

And then I hosted my own show for about a year and a half after that. And then I

got a call from my former boss from ESPN and said, I've been following your radio

show, I've been following your work. And obviously, I know you from ESPN know, you

know, your work ethic and the way that you'd go about things. We're looking to

expand our on air host areas and avenues at Yahoo Sports and we think that you

would be a perfect fit. So I came over to Yahoo in June of 2024. So coming up

about seven or eight months now. - I love hearing that trajectory. I think sometimes

those decisions where you're going against the norm, like you said, everybody was

like, you're at ESPN, why would you give that up? But you're going against the

norm, you have your reasons for doing it, but people looking in don't understand it.

I think those are some of the hardest moves to make. - Totally. - As you know, it's

good for you, but it might not appear obvious to everybody on the outside. So, but

obviously you made the good decision. Yes. This sounds like an incredible job.

All the fun things that you get to cover and do tell us a little bit about like

the day to day and what's been the most exciting thing that you've you've been able

to do so far. Oh my gosh. The list is so long and it is such a blast.

It is so much fun. And I've kind of been able to marry those two loves of being

able to be creative and digital but also be on air and be a host. It's kind of

the perfect combination of my previous two stops in my career. So day to day is

different every single day. And I kind of love that, frankly, that I wake up and

might not even know where I'm going to be tomorrow because it might put me on a

flight for something. And it's been so fun. So day to day I host podcasts for

Yahoo Sports. So mainly my main focus is college sports, college football in the

fall. And I'm now focusing in on college basketball now in the spring. So I have a

bi -weekly podcast that I host and then reactions to games. So USC and UCLA are

playing next week on the women's side. So I'll have a reaction to that game and

anything big that happens in the world of sports. A coach gets fired or a player's

out for the year. I'm kind of on air giving my reaction. - The Mavs trade Luka.

- The Mavs trade Luka to Los Angeles. which what in the world are they thinking?

What are they doing? But that was exactly my reaction video that I had to record

for Yahoo is what in the world are they thinking? And then there's all sorts of

other things, which is a blast. I got a call from my boss about a month or so

ago and he asked me, how much do you know about women's soccer? And he said,

frankly, not a lot, but I'll learn. He said, okay, great. I need you on a flight

to LA in four days. And I have 30 interviews set up for you with NWSL players,

one on one interviews. And so I was like, okay, wonderful, let's research everything

that there is to possibly know about the NWSL. And I'm so glad that I did because

I've fallen in love with this league getting to talk to the players and learn about

their backgrounds, learn how they got there, how much the league is booming. So that

was a wonderful experience. I'll be going to Los Angeles in a couple of weeks to

record a selection Sunday reaction and then I'll be heading to the women's final

four in Tampa at the end of March. I was just at the Super Bowl in New Orleans a

few weeks ago, which was an amazing experience. I got to interview Joe Burrow and

Aaron Jones, the running back for the Minnesota Vikings, Jordan Love, the quarterback

for the Green Bay Packers. I got to interview Keegan -Michael Key, the comedian,

which was so much fun. We just had a laundry list of athletes and celebrities that

we got to sit down with. So going to the Super Bowl was my very first Super Bowl

experience. And you know, it was crazy. Full environment. It's got to be almost

circus -like. It is. It is. The game is like the minor player, and the game

happens, but there's so much going on around it with celebrities and artists and,

I mean, just people showing up to do things around it, that brands probably

launching things. - Oh my gosh. - I mean, imagine how you're navigating what to even

cover when you're there. - It's a lot, frankly, but it's also so much fun. You

know, I always tell myself whenever I'm getting overwhelmed or whenever I was

overwhelmed in New Orleans in the Super Bowl, I kept reminding myself, like, hello,

you're in the Super Bowl, you're covering the Super Bowl. Like, it's okay, take the

overwhelming feelings as they come and just remind yourself like this is what you

want this is the Super Bowl. Hello. And so I definitely had to pinch myself a few

times, you know, walking down the street and running into different athletes or

different journalists and sports broadcasters that I've looked up to forever. And now

we're just, you know, bumping elbows at the Super Bowl. And it was crazy. Like they

call it media row throughout the week. So I was at New Orleans at media row for

the week getting up to the game and bounty paper towels had this massive like at

home like they built a home in the New Orleans convention center and they were

giving out wings and there were all these structures that brands were sponsoring and

you could come by and try their products it was truly an experience unlike any

other it was it was truly the super bowl of media events. Yeah, it's funny. It's

fun to hear you talk with. I think sometimes when you have a love and then you go

into work in that business that you love, you see a different side of it and it

can get you can get jaded. It's fun to see your spirit still strong around sports

and what you're doing, even though you're working in it. It is something that, you

know, everyone says they want to work in or so many people say that they they They

want to work in sports, they want to do sports. And I always encourage people to

do that, but I always remind people, we are having fun. We're not saving lives.

I respect the people that do, but frankly, I don't have the nerves of steel for

that. You know, we're not, you know, we're not doing cancer research. We're not

saving lives. We're having fun. We're talking about a sport. We're talking about, you

know, a business of things that truly this is supposed to be fun. were creating

content for people to kind of escape from the craziness of the world and the

craziness of everyday lives. And it's difficult, I won't lie. There are days that I

have to remind myself that I'm in this because I love it and I'm in this because

this has always been my dream. I think the biggest crossroads for me came early in

my career in Nashville Radio. I was the very first female on air voice at the

radio station that I worked for, which I was incredibly honored. That was a title

that I was very honored to have. But it came with a lot of challenges because

frankly, there are a lot of people that don't believe that me or other women or

maybe people that don't look like the traditional sports broadcaster aren't qualified

to be there, shouldn't be there, don't deserve to be there. Get the comments all

the time of what do you know you never played the sport or, you know, her husband

is just telling her to regurgitate these things, or she's not smart enough to do

this on and on and on. You name it, I've heard it, I've been tweeted it, I've

been called in on the radio. And in the beginning that was really, really hard on

me. I started to believe the things that people were telling me. But then I told

myself, I've worked my butt off to do this. Like I have worked so hard to be in

not going to let some, you know, Titan fan one, two, three on Twitter, tell me

that I'm something that I know that I'm not. I always reminded myself that line

from Legally Blonde when she's, you know, crying in the salon saying she's quitting

law school and she had a law professor say, if you're gonna let one stupid man,

you know, tell you what you can't do then you are not the girl that I thought you

were. And I always kind of reminded myself of that. There are people out there that

are going to try and kick me down. There are going to be people out there that

have opinions, but those opinions don't matter because those people don't care about

me or my career or my trajectory. The only people whose opinions matter to me are

my family, my bosses, my coworkers, my mentors, the people who genuinely care about

my success. So I've kind of reminded myself of that and it's something I have to

practice every single day, something I have to remind myself of every single day,

but you learn and you grow and that confidence comes with it. I think that's great

advice for all of us out here trying to make it. However, we're trying to make it.

Are there any lessons or pieces of Tri Delta that you still carry with you today,

things that you learned there, skills you picked up there that you feel like

prepared you for today or you still are leaning on today? so, so many. And that's

always what I tell people whenever, you know, young girls, if it's my friends,

little sisters, or cousins, or anyone in my life that's going into college, and they

ask me if that if Greek life is something that they should do, I always say, Well,

if you're interested, do it, go through it, you know, see if you if it's for you.

But I always tell them that it's not a four year thing that you do. And it's not

just really fun parties and recruitment. Those things are very fun. But I said, I

still I'm shaped by Tri Delta that my experience in Greek life, absolutely shaped

the person that I am now. And part of that one big area of that is, is

confidence. You know, I mentioned how I was kind of tapped to do certain things

early on in my in my try Delta tenure. And I think that showed me that these

girls, these people that I think are the coolest people in the world, the people

that I look up to, people that I want to be friends with, they think I'm good,

they think that I would be good at this me. Then I started to believe it myself.

So that kind of foundation of my confidence grew more and more and more, the more

responsibilities that I had, and the more opportunities that Tridel to give me, I've

carried that so much more into my adult life. Bravery and boldness are always things

that that stick with me a lot. It's not easy to, you know, get up on a microphone

and talk about a football game. And that's in my role, but it's the same thing in

a boardroom. It's not easy to stand up in a meeting and give your opinion or to

say something that isn't right in a conversation with a friend or in the workplace

or whatever it might be to say, Hey, what I think you're doing isn't right, isn't

nice, isn't good, so on and so forth. None of those things are easy. That takes a

lot of confidence and that takes a lot of bravery, but those are the things that

are going to catapult you in your friendships and your any relationships in your

career. The ability to speak up for yourself and to stand up for yourself and to

stand up for other people who may not be able to stand up for themselves takes

bravery takes boldness and it takes a lot of kindness best advice I could give

someone is work hard and be nice to people. I think that's a lot of principles

that I learned in Tridelta. It's not just about grinding and being the best out

there because absolutely that's what you should strive to be, but always be nice to

people. Not just the people that can advance you in your career, but also the

people that look up to you. Also, maybe the people who are, quote unquote, below

you on an organizational chart. Just a smile, a thank you, a how are you, how can

I help you to anyone that goes such a long way and all of those things I think

are principles that we should all have throughout the entirety of our lives but

definitely are some some core principles that really hit home for me in Tridelta.

Yeah I love hearing Matt how that plays out for you still. You're just full of

such great advice I think for everybody today. Thank you. What is Tridelta look like

in your life today? Are you still in touch with sisters? How does it how does it

play out in your life now? Yeah absolutely still in touch with sisters. I got

engaged last month, so I'm planning my wedding and my bridesmaids, four of the six

of them, two that are my sister and my fiance's sister. The other four are all

Tridelta's, all friends that I made, whether it was on bid day or throughout my

Tridelta experience. I'm the maid of honor in one of my best friend's weddings next

month and I met her through Tridelta and I'm still in touch with so many of my

best friends that all came from Tridelta and even friends that I may not stay in

contact with every day, but will always have that background and that foundation of

friendship from Tridelta. And if they ever came calling of, hey, I'm moving to town

or I'm coming to town or hey, I need something I need you would always be there

for them. And I know that they would always be the same for me. So those

relationships, those friendships, whether it's your best best friend in the world or

if it's, you It's the girl to member classes ahead of you that lives in a city

that you're moving to and you just need some advice of where to live. Those

relationships absolutely have been integral in not just my college life,

my adult life. And like I said, I originally went through recruitment to make a

campus feel so much smaller. I can attest that once you graduate and go into the

adult world, it's scary. But having tried outside, having those friendships also makes

this big world feel just a little bit smaller. - Yeah, I love that. And it does,

it's a lifetime. It does not go to college. - It is. - It is truly for a lifetime.

What, your job takes a lot of time, I assume. - Yeah. - What do you do for fun?

- Yeah, I love to travel. I live in Nashville, but I'm actually in Phoenix right

now. Just looking for wedding venues, but also just kind of exploring, hiking around

the desert, exploring new areas of the city that I haven't seen before. I got to

go to Europe actually with one of my best friends from Tridelta. This past summer

is my first trip to Europe, so that was amazing. So any chance I can get to

travel, whether it's a new town near Nashville, it's just an hour and a half away,

or if it's halfway across the world, any chance I can get a free time from work,

and a couple extra monies here and there. I always love to travel. I'm a huge

yogi. I love yoga and bar and Pilates anytime I can. You know, just step away from

the computer and just have some time of movement. It's so important. I'm also a

foster, a dog foster. So I actually, I'm gone now, but whenever I go back home,

I have a sweet foster baby named CeCe. So if you're in the Nashville area and

you're in the market for a new dog, she's precious. But I love to foster dogs. I,

my work schedule is just a little bit too demanding to have a dog of my own right

now. So it's so nice to be able to open it up to a sweet little pup that needs

some loving. That's a great way to do it. I love that. Yeah, it's class. What is

next for you? What's coming up for Caroline? Yes. Yes. So we are looking ahead to the

NCAA tournament. So we'll have a ton of March Madness coverage. I'll be in Los

Angeles at Yahoo's headquarters doing some shows there. I'll be heading to Tampa for

the women's final four at the end of the month. So that's kind of next up on the

agenda. Once we get through March, then maybe we can breathe a little bit. I told

myself once we got through football season, I'd be able to breathe a little bit.

And then they were like, "Haha, nope."

There's always a next thing. There's always something else. So yeah, that's in the

short term. And then looking ahead over the next year or so, just more and more

college football coverage. So we'll be expanding Our podcast will be traveling a

little bit more going to more games on site. So very, very excited for that. I

love that. Well, I'd love to let our listeners know how they can find you and

follow you and keep up with what you're doing. So yeah, absolutely. You can find me

on Instagram at Caroline Fenton. It's just my name. If you are on Twitter, I'm on

Twitter at Caroline Fenton one. You can get all my sports takes here, my podcast

there. And then you can also find me at Yahoo Sports. All of our podcasts are

posted, Spotify, YouTube, at Yahoo Sports, wherever you listen to your podcasts.

And you can also hear me on SiriusXM. I'm on the SiriusXM College Sports channel

and SiriusXM Mad Dog channels as well. Okay. Well, I cannot tell you how much fun

it is to have you back. And thank you. It's been a blast. And thank you for

sharing all your stories and all your great advice. I know there's lots of up and

coming women out there who are thinking about what they're gonna do next. I think

you had a lot of great advice and tips for them as they do that. So, thanks for

that. - I hope so. Absolutely, just keep going. You got it. I'm excited for everyone

out there and I'm here for anyone. Always, always just an email, a phone call, a

tweet, a DM away. - I love it. We're so glad to have Caroline with us today. Also

wanna remind everybody, Treadelta is powered by 2 ,500 amazing volunteers.

We've all had an experience with one of them along the way somewhere. I don't know

what we would do without them. They really do help power our organization. April

20th kicks off Volunteer Appreciation Week, so I hope you will take time to thank a

Tri -Delta volunteer that week. Like, subscribe, and rate our podcast. We have three

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