By COOPER STANLEY, Student Reporter
One student combined her love for rodeo and her passion for mass communication to create an audio and visual work of art.
Sarah Otto, a senior mass communication major is the mastermind and creative talent behind NWTV7s weekly segment “The Bullpen”. The Bullpen is a weekly feature news package done over a member or multiple members of Northwesterns Rodeo team. The Bullpen takes a deeper look into these athletes to show viewers not only what these rodeo team members go through in the rodeo area but shows who they are as people, their dreams, faith, and goals.
Otto says her love for rodeo runs deep because she was raised on a buffalo ranch, and her family is strongly rooted in the rodeo community. Otto said she got the idea for The Bullpen because as a child journalists would come to her family’s buffalo ranch and interview her parents, she remembers as a child wanting to one day be the person who got to interview people, not be the interviewee.
Otto’s favorite segment of The Bullpen to date is one that covered rodeo team member Rhino. “He inspires me, it was nice to see him finally get the recognition he deserved” said Otto. The Bullpen has become so popular among members of the rodeo team that these sometimes-shy athletes are itching to be the next in line featured on the weekly segment.
As long as Otto is a member of the mass communication program, and there’s a rodeo team at Northwestern, people can count on a new Bullpen segment every week.