# @sjmagmedia on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CcJCmTpr-eC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/147837-sjmagmedia-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-04-09T19:00:23.000+00:00

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“When as a kid you are watching ‘SportsCenter’ before school starts every day, that’s all you’re really thinking about. Getting here was a lot of hard work that paid off.”

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As a kid, Max McGee dreamed of knocking out grand slam home runs at Citizens Bank Park and catching fly balls in centerfield. To say he was a driven player is putting it lightly.

But then McGee suffered a career-ending injury in 2008, during his senior year on Cherry Hill East’s varsity baseball team, and everything changed. As McGee raced towards home plate, trying to score a run with an opposing player on his tail, he slid forward and smacked his chin hard against the plate. “I didn’t really feel it at the time but 10-15 minutes later, I noticed that something was wrong,” he says. “I had nausea and dizziness and was diagnosed with a concussion later that night.”

The incident triggered an existential crisis, he says, noting that – up to that point – it didn’t even occur to him to have a back-up to his plan of going pro. Looking back, he now thinks of the injury as a blessing in disguise. It set him on the path that took McGee to ESPN, where he started in January as a SportsCenter anchor – working in Bristol, Conn., alongside broadcast journalists he’s admired his whole life.

Want to learn more about McGee? Check out his full story in our Link in Bio!
📷: @espn 
#espn #sportscenter #sports #anchor #southjersey #newjersey #cherryhill

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SJ Magazine | @Justsaysj | https://gondola.cc/Justsaysj | Magazine |
| Elyse Notarianni | @ElyseNotarianni | https://gondola.cc/ElyseNotarianni | Social Media Manager |

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