Author: Marissa Essenburg

Marissa Essenburg is a senior from Frisco Texas, majoring in Broadcast Journalism. She loves spending time with friends and family, playing/watching and writing about sports, traveling, and listening to any and every musical soundtrack. After graduating, she hopes to pursue a career in sports media after potentially getting her masters.

For decades, women have been proving they belong in sports conversations. The real question is why society still acts like they don’t. The issue isn’t that women need to “get educated” on sports. The problem is that audiences, media and casual fans alike must stop acting surprised when women bring authority and insight to the conversation.

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