Two Liberty alumni take up the broadcasting torch for the Winter Olympics

With the eyes of millions around the world on Italy for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, two Liberty University alumni are helping to showcase the primo athletes on their biggest stage.

In Livigno, Italy, a roughly four-hour drive from Milan and the site of multiple sporting events, Megan Day (’21) is working as a technical director for the Olympic Broadcasting Service, which supplies video feeds of the events to every country. She is assigned to the ski and snowboard Big Air, Parallel Giant Slalom, and Cross-Country skiing events. As a technical director, she is responsible for orchestrating video, audio, and graphics, and 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 a part of that, and 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. It’s definitely an honor to be asked to do that.”

Day made the trip from North Carolina, where she works on contract for various sporting events, including PBR (professional bull riding), NASCAR, and basketball. A PBR production director was assembling a team for the Olympics and invited Day to join him.

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 Campus Community, and also worked for Liberty Broadcast Experience (LBX), which produces much of the university’s athletic event coverage. Looking back, she said the ability to learn and use professional-level equipment at Liberty has served her well in her career.

“A really cool thing about Liberty is it has the top-of-the-line equipment,” she said. “The switcher that they use is pretty much the industry standard, so getting to learn on that was a game changer because I was able to start working right away, and I knew how to use that equipment. It gave me a huge leg up.”

Sports journalism alumna Annie Cory (’24) has been working part time for NBC Sports ever since she completed a yearlong internship in its Digital and Editorial division in 2022 and 2023. Now temporarily relocated at the network’s headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Cory is working as a researcher for multiple sports and ceremonies throughout the Olympics. Whether gathering information about seven countries for the opening ceremony or becoming well-versed on the long and short track speed skaters, Cory said she has felt immersed in the Olympic atmosphere.

“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. “It’s preparing for what we think will happen; having graphics built, having statistics ready, and having hypothetical situations all planned out. 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, that we’re sharing fun stories, and finding other content that we think people will be interested in. It’s a lot of different moving parts and roles, and every day is a little bit different, but it’s so fun.”

As a child, Cory said she loved the Olympics, specifically figure skating and gymnastics, and she feels grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the Games.

“It’s very surreal, just getting to see the Olympic rings outside of the (NBC) building and to take part in it, sharing the information that I grew up absolutely loving,” she said.

Cory had to take a break from her current job with LBX in order to travel to Stamford. Her responsibilities have included on-camera work for Campus Community and other large events, play-by-play for athletic competitions, and producing. She started with LBX as a student, both behind and in front of the camera, serving as a sideline reporter for the  ACHA Division I men’s and women’s hockey games and a few NCAA Division I teams. She also spent two years as the sports editor of the “Liberty Champion,” the university’s student-run newspaper. She said the diversity of experience she has received at Liberty has informed her work with the Olympics.

“Liberty has taught me a lot of versatility, and that versatility has allowed me to be able to understand what kind of information different people need in their different roles,” she said. “I understand what the producer needs to see, I understand what my reporter might like to see in terms of storytelling, and then I know the kind of information that the play-by-play person is going to want in their hands. I’ve been in those roles myself, so I feel like having been in those shoes, and now having to cater to the people who are in their shoes, it’s helped a lot.”