Two alumni take their skills to the Olympics
Two Liberty University alumni helped showcase the world’s primo athletes at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy.
In Livigno, Italy, the site of multiple sporting events, Megan Day (’21, left photo) worked as a technical director for the Olympic Broadcasting Service, which supplies video feeds to every country. Assigned to snowboard and skiing events, she orchestrated video, audio, and graphics, switching between sources in real time.
“Getting to come to Italy for your job is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the Olympics has such a huge reputation; it’s one of the only things in the world that’s known by everyone,” Day said. “Just to be asked to be a part of that is really cool because you’re helping broadcast people from all over the world and making sure that their friends and family back home can see them.”
Megan Day worked for the Olympic Broadcasting Service in Livigno during the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy.
Day made the trip from North Carolina, where she works full time on contract jobs with PBR (professional bull riding), NASCAR, and basketball.
Day studied communications and business at Liberty, earning an interdisciplinary studies degree. She was a student worker for Liberty’s Campus Production team, which broadcasts live events such as Convocation, and also worked for Liberty Broadcast Experience (LBX), which produces much of the university’s athletics event coverage.
Sports journalism alumna Annie Cory (’24) has been working part time for NBC Sports ever since she completed a yearlong internship with the network. She temporarily relocated to the headquarters in Stamford, Conn., to work as a researcher throughout the Olympics. Whether she was gathering information about seven countries for the opening ceremony or becoming well-versed on speedskaters, Cory said she felt immersed in the Olympic atmosphere.
Annie Cory temporarily relocated to NBC headquarters in Stamford, Conn., to work as a researcher throughout the Olympics.
“I’m basically the go-to person for the information — the talent notes, the fact-checking, and so on — for the daytime shows, primetime shows, and late-night shows,” she said in early February. “The show writers come in and work with us to write the scripts and make sure everything that’s going out there for all the shows is accurate and that we’re sharing fun stories and finding other content that we think people will be interested in.”
Cory had to take a break from her current full-time job with LBX. Her responsibilities at Liberty have included on-camera work for Campus Community and other large events, play-by-play for athletics competitions, and producing. She started with LBX as a student, serving as a sideline reporter for men’s and women’s hockey games and a few NCAA Division I teams. She also worked as sports editor at the “Liberty Champion” student newspaper.
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