JMU alumna Lindsay Czarniak (’00) is one of the most recognizable faces in sports broadcasting. An anchor on the 6 p.m. weekday ESPN “SportsCenter,” Czarniak helps inform the nation on the day’s top sports storylines, night in and night out.

But the Centreville, Virginia, native got her start in JMU’s School of Media Arts & Design, where she picked up her love of broadcast journalism. We chatted with Czarniak to find out how she made it all the way to the “Worldwide Leader in Sports.”