CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CHARLOTTE SPORTS LIVE) — Much like in life, there’s a bit of luck involved to being a good videographer.
Sometimes you find that perfect shot.
And every so often, as Charlotte FC’s Alex Warrington points out, that perfect shot finds you.
“I didn’t realize it until I was 21,” she recalls. “I was struggling to find my place.”
That all changed for the 29-year-old Virginia native, the moment she was asked to pick up a video camera during an internship. From the instant she hit record, she knew she had found her calling.
“I felt like I could anticipate what players were going to do and the next moves they were going to make,” she explained.
Through her lenses, she could see everything, including, sadly, the glass ceiling that still exists for women working in professional sports.
“You always want to find yourself not blending in with the crowd,” she said. “And it’s super easy to be a woman in this industry and not speak up for what you believe in.”
Though there’s been an improvement over the last decade, Sportsbusiness.com says men still dominate the field, holding up to 80 percent of available positions worldwide.
But when an opportunity arose with Charlotte more than a year ago, Warrington could see a difference. Not only were more women working for a team, but these women also had a say.
“There is so many of us in those meetings,” she remembered. “I thought that was rare at an MLS club.”
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Though she’s the only female videographer on the Crown’s staff, she believes progress is being made. She says she is proud to be a part of it.
“What we put out is going to change the narratives on the teams and the players. We just want positively all around basically.”
Like the perfect video, this was an opportunity that found her. Now Warrington is finding ways to change the world.
One video clip at a time.