She Knows Sports featuring Terrika Foster-Brasby
In this installment of the Detroit Worldwide Podcast, Marquis connects with multimedia journalist, content creator, and producer, Terrika Foster-Brasby about all things sports including her earliest Detroit sports memory and her love for women's basketball.
Terrika also discusses her career at a large and how community helped to cultivate her success as a multimedia content creator.
About Terrika:
Terrika Foster-Brasby is one of the best multimedia journalists, digital podcast producers, on-air hosts and speakers in sports.
Self-made, self-driven, self-motived, but most of all, selfless, Terrika covers the game to tell the stories of others. While the WNBA and NCAAW basketball are her passions, she's covered NBA, NFL and NCAA DI Men's Basketball. You can find her bylines with espnW and ESPN's The Undefeated, but she's become synonymous with women's basketball as one of the two voices on espnW's Around The Rim podcast, alongside acclaimed women's basketball analyst LaChina Robinson.
Terrika began her career in sports writing for La Dulce Locura online magazine in 2012. After several months, Terrika was then offered an opportunity to host a Friday night sports talk show on the online based Sportzfam Radio Network, hence The Gridiron Gurl was born in February 2013. She later added contributing to Yahoo! Sports before taking a position with ESPN Radio in December 2014. This was all accomplished ahead of her receiving her Masters Degree in Multimedia Journalism from Full Sail University in the summer of 2015.
Since then, Terrika has had the pleasure of producing some of the most well-known personalities in sports including, Jemele Hill, Michael Smith, Mina Kimes, Cari Champion, Sarah Spain, Matthew Berry, Field Yates, and more. She's sat down with Hall of Famers Eric Dickerson, Sheryl Swoopes, and Rebecca Lobo. She's interviewed for radio hip hop legend Ice Cube, actor Omar Epps, Power star Omari Hardwick, comedian Mike Epps and others.
She's covered for audio and print the 2015 AAC Men's Basketball Conference Championships, the 2018 NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles, the 2018 NCAAW Final Four in Columbus, and the 2018 NBA Draft in Brooklyn among others. Terrika brings a perspective to sports that's real, authentic, unique, and one-of-a-kind that resonates with fans and media colleagues alike.
Outside of sports, Terrika is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., Iota Sweethearts, Inc., and the National Association of Black Journalist. She's a former NCAA Division II dual athlete, playing both volleyball and softball at Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh, NC.
Connect with Terrika:
Website: terrikafosterbrasby.com
Twitter: @SheKnowsSports_
YouTube: She Knows Sports/Tee Take Two
Instagram: @sheknowssports_