It all started with box scores.Before the days when information on every sports game in history was at our fingertips, I would rip open the local newspaper each day to the Scoreboard page to see all the results, statistics and leaderboards. Little did I know that at 8 years old, I was setting myself down my career path.At 20, I was covering local high school sports full-time for that same newspaper in Wenatchee, Wash. – and yes, paginating my beloved Scoreboard page on Quark. Six years later, I took a leap of faith to join a Seattle sports radio station to write for and help run its website on a part-time basis. Five years after that, I became the editor of that website.I had a plan for SeattleSports.com, and we executed it. In my first year as editor, 17 articles produced 20,000 or more pageviews. In my second year, that number grew to 89. The next, it was 146. The site has grown in some measurable way every year since, with a personal highlight being the five articles in 2022 that surpassed 100,000 unique pageviews. In the four years prior, four articles total made it to the 100,000 mark.My early passion for sports and stats revealed a love of writing. That led me to journalism, which has shown me even more things I love to do. Running a CMS. Leading a team of content producers. Editing. Brainstorming. Utilizing social media. Regularly learning the new skills that are necessary when working in an ever-evolving industry.I have a lot of tools in my belt, and I'm as eager to see what I can do with them in the future and as I am to find the next one to add. All because of box scores.