HW#2 Interview a Classmate: Alazia Williams

Daniel Booth                                                                                            Professor Stomski

COM-600                                                                                                                   7/24/18

                                             HW#2 Interview a Classmate: Alazia Williams

            Alazia Williams is a great human being. She was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina. She didn’t travel too far from home to studied Mass Communications at Morris College. Morris College is a Historically Black College in Sumter, South Carolina, and has less than 1,000 students. Moving to Syracuse is going to be an adjustment for her because of the size of the University. Alazia played numerous sports throughout her life, but in high school her favorite sport was Track & Field. She did the Long Jump, Triple Jump, and occasionally ran the 400-meter race. Alazia is not a fan of sprinting because she doesn’t believe she’s that fast. Her three biggest role models in the world of sports media are Doris Burke, Jamele Hill, and Cari Champion because all three of them aren’t afraid to speak their minds. While at Syracuse, Alazia wants to learn as much as she can. She doesn’t exactly know what she wants to do yet, but she’s open to anything life throws her way.

Interview Transcription:

Me: Alright is Daniel Booth for N-C-C News here along with Alazia Williams, and we are here to talk about a lot of things, and I’m going to figure out who Alzia is. First and foremost, thanks for being here.

Alazia: Well thank you!

Q: Where are you from?

A: Greenville, South Carolina

Q: Where is your favorite place you’ve ever travel to?

A: Oh Gosh I’ve been a lot of places. I would have to say Cozumel, Mexico, and it was beautiful. Because I had my first real tacos there and they were so good, and they had a lot of tequila everywhere, and I had an authentic Pina-Colada. It was just really good. I really enjoyed it.

Q: Where did you go for Undergrad?

A: I went to Morris College. It’s a really small HBCU in Sumter, South Carolina. We had about, less than 1,000 students.

Q: What are you majoring in here at Syracuse?

A: I’m majoring in Broadcast and Digital Journalism with an emphasis in sports.

Q: Why did you decide to take the Sports Emphasis?

A: Simply because I love sports, and I couldn’t think of anything; news doesn’t excite me. I want to talk for a living, I want people to listen to me talk for a living, and the only thing I could think of that I would enjoy talking about is sports. Or entertainment, I’m willing to go either way, but I do really love sports.

Q; What sports did you play growing up?

A: I played soccer. That was the first sport that I ever played, and then I played basketball, volleyball, and I ran track. I did the field sports because I’m not really fast. I did do some running, I did the open 400, the 4x1, 4x4, but my main events very long jump, triple jump, things like that.

Me: My brother was a sprinter.

Alazia: Yeah that wasn’t me. Haha.

Q: What is your dream job?

A: You know honestly, I don’t know, and I’m just getting comfortable with being able to say that. I know I either want to do sports analysis, maybe getting into the sideline reporting, but I want to do more of on-air sports talk show type things. I’m really trying to find my comfotability here, and just know what I like to do, and be open anything.

Q: What was your major in Undergrad?

A: It was Mass Communications.

Q: Who’s your biggest role model in your field of study?

A: While I did my paper on Doris Burke, which she’s absolutely amazing to me, and its between her and Jamele Hill. And you know it would be the typical black girl to say Jamele Hill, but both of them are awesome. They’re not afraid to say what they mean, they mean what they say, and they stand up for what they believe in. And I said in my paper, one of my videos I put up in my paper was a blooper video of Doris Burke messing up, and I tend to do that a lot so it makes me feel a lot better to know that I know everyone’s not perfect and everyone does mess up, and it makes me feel like, ok Alazis, calm down because you can definitely do this. So it’s between those two. I also love Cari Champion. I love her two, and those are my top three if I must say.

Q: What do you hope to get out of this program?

A: I hope to learn a lot. Kinda relating back to the last question, just know what exactly I want to do in this field, find my comfortabilty, so I can be more certain which is ok now. It’s ok not to know right now. I just want to learn. I’m open to absolutely everything at this point.

Link to the Recording of the Interview:
https://soundcloud.com/user-164888916/stomski-hw2-alazia-williams-interviewmp3

(I had problems uploading the interview, so I just posted it to my Soundcloud account instead. The Link should work, regardless I plan on sending you an email with the mp3 just to be safe.)