Being a good pit-lane reporter is all about knowing how to react to chaos.
, and NASCAR events—including the Craftsman Truck Series—and more, and there’s a great chance you’ll see Amanda Busick at work. She’s the voice you hear from pit lane, the first on-site when something notable happens, and the person bringing order and explanation when things change quicker than the blink of an eye.
As a freelance broadcast reporter, Busick works with Fox Sports and NBC, as well as this publication from time to time. “My job is to react to chaos, and somehow I’m great at it,” Busick said. “I don’t know what that says about me.”Whether or not that last bit was meant in jest, we think we know what it says about Busick: She’s the one to call when you need someone cool, calm, and collected to tell everyone else about the race.Growing up in Greensboro, North Carolina, Busick had always been “a total ham.” Since the beginning, she’s loved performing and watching the local morning news. And despite not majoring in journalism in college, she never lost her love for the profession. She combined her obsession with college basketball with a summer internship at the sports department of the very same local news channel she watched as a little girl.“That was where I cut my teeth, going to and from the local game, bringing back tape, cutting highlights, and creating stories,” Busick said. But then the recession hit, and with it went the job market. Busick found an unpaid internship with a sports agent in New York City that represented broadcasters. She moved there and supported herself for the next two and a half years by working at a steakhouse at night and spending her days trying to find and make any connection she could to a job in sports.Busick finally took a job as a production assistant in Chicago and did some high school football work for Time Warner Cable back home in North Carolina. After her mother suffered “a bit of a financial implosion,” the two women moved in together in a tiny Boston apartment, with Busick taking a break from media to sell Italian sausage instead. Tony Stewart is interviewed by Fox Sports reporter Amanda Busick during the NHRA Nevada Nationals on October 28, 2022, at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Image credit: Photo by Jeff Speer/LVMS/Icon Sportswire viaSports reporter Amanda Busick, Liberty Media president and CEO Greg Maffei, and Formula One Group president and CEO Stefano Domenicali speak during the Formula 1 Las Vegas race’s 2023 announcement at the Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on March 30, 2022. Image credit: Ethan Miller – Formula 1/Formula 1 viaBrittany Force, NHRA Top Fuel Dragster driver, reacts as she’s interviewed by Fox Sports reporter Amanda Busick after winning at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals on April 3, 2022, at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Image credit: Jeff Speer/LVMS/Icon Sportswire viaTony Stewart picks up and hugs Fox Sports reporter Amanda Busick after winning his class at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Camping World Drag Racing Series on April 16, 2023, at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Image credit: Jeff Speer/Icon Sportswire via Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources. Georgia Bulldogs Head Coach Kirby Smart Goes Viral After Lane Kiffin’s Instagram PostGeorgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart has recently gone viral following a social media post by LSU head coach Lane Kiffin. LSU Football Surging for Elite Wide Receiver as Lane Kiffin's Offense Turns HeadsKiffin and Co. continue pushing for the coveted pass-catcher, Lone Star State prospect high on the Tigers.United States Latest News, United States Headlines
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