Sports Media and Communication B.A.
Featured Stories
- Women in Sports has entered the chat - A new club on campus, Women in Sports Group, where all genders interested in sports (regardless of their major) are welcome.
- Faculty Spotlight: Molly Yanity - Molly Yanity, professor and director of sports media and communications, joined URI after several years as a journalism professor at Quinnipiac University.
- Michael LaValva ’24 - Across his four years at URI, Michael LaValva ’24, communication studies and sports media and communication, took many opportunities to push himself both academically and professionally. As a student in the Honors Program, he worked with Professor Matt Hodler for his honors project. Alongside Hodler, LaValva’s project focused on one of his passions: tennis. He […]
- Aniekan Okon ’23 - Aniekan Okon, journalism and sports media & communication, was part of the inaugural class of graduates from the sports media program. Today, he works as a Sports Anchor and Reporter at CBS19 News in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- Valerie Shields ’06 - “Work hard, but also be a little patient... you're gonna work for a long time. It'll come. Enjoy the journey because you're gonna learn a lot on your way there.”
- Katie Siegle ’22 - “Harrington is great because a lot of the majors interact with one another. You can be any major, and you're doing similar things. It's all part of one school.”