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"It's wonderful to have that kind of geographical diversity, but you can't just go home and see all your friends."

GS: What was the biggest nightmare of your career? The worst mistake you made?
AT: I haven't made any huge mistakes that caused a problem. You always have little problems to deal with. I was doing a sportscast once and we were on a new computer system and the teleprompter all of a sudden started scrolling backward. That was kind of interesting.

GS: What's the best career move you made?
AT: I was offered a job in Minneapolis, the 13th largest market in the country for a lot more money than I'm making here. But it was a news job at the point where my station here was offering to transition me into sports, which is my lifelong dream. It was a tough decision because anyone in this business in my size market will tell you that you don't know if you're ever going to be offered a top 15 job, ever again. As it turned out, I haven't regretted it, and I'm really loving doing sports here. We don't have any professional teams but as far as college teams go, sports fans don't get much more fanatical than the University of Kentucky fans. It's a great town for sports, college and high school, and we're just down the interstate from Cincinatti where they have baseball and football. That was a tough choice for me to make to pass up a potentially big market job for staying in Lexington Kentucky for half the money.

GS: How much money were they offering at Minneapolis?
AT: Close to double what I'm making now.

GS: Were you something of a tomboy growing up?
AT: If you watch sports at all on TV every one of the networks and ESPN and CNN all have lots of women [sports reporters]. I consider myself part of the trend that's going on all over the country as far as women in sports.

GS: Do you do any networking?
AT: I think you always do networking when you meet someone.

GS: Do you join clubs or organizations for the sake of networking?
AT: Not really. I keep in touch with people I think are interesting.
GS: What advice would you give other young women who want to get into TV journalism?
AT: To know what you're getting into as far as the commitment timewise, moneywise, being thousands of miles away from your family, working holidays.

GS: What's the most difficult thing about your job right now emotionally?
AT: Being away from my family. Also being in a busienss that's transient like this where you move a lot, your friends are all over the country. It's wonderful to have that kind of geographical diversity, but you can't just go home and see all your friends.

GS: Do you live alone?
AT: Yes.
GS: How often do you visit home?
AT: I've been home once a year probably. They come out here though.

GS: How much vacation time do you have?
AT: Two weeks a year.

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