# @amanda_carmela on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C3EVLdHxqge
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10930989-amanda-carmela-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/3e8a92336e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-02-08T01:14:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Amanda Wijangco 💌 (she/her) (@amanda_carmela) — https://gondola.cc/amanda_carmela

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Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! 🤸🏻‍♀️

I may not work in sports full-time, and I may not cover gymnastics as often as I did before, but I'm still proud to be a woman in sports. As I began covering gymnastics and pursuing a career in sports media in college, the impostor syndrome was real. Everyone else in my sports classes were into mainstream sports — not to mention most of them were men — but that didn't make me any less legitimate. I was and sill am a woman in sports.

I've interviewed Olympians, provided on-site coverage for major NCAA gymnastics and USA Gymnastics elite competitions and done color commentary for the Illini women's gymnastics team. That's more than 16-year-old me could have ever hoped for after falling in love with gymnastics.

#NGWSD #NGWSD24 #NGWSD2024 #WomenInSports #gymnastics #Illini

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illini, womeninsports, gymnastics, ngwsd, ngwsd24, ngwsd2024

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