The 2015 Webster City High School graduate doesn’t physically pinch herself every time she walks onto the turf and looks around at the nearly 70,000 seats inside Kinnick Stadium, but she understands and appreciates the reality — she’s a lucky girl.

“I love it,” Myers said.

For the past two years, Myers has been a part of the University of Iowa Communications team — also known as the Iowa Sports Information Department. She’s on the inside, so to speak, and it’s something she hopes to make a career of when she graduates with degrees in Journalism/Mass Communications and Sport Recreation and Management next month.

“I knew I really liked sports and writing, so it just seemed like I could try to make a career out of that,” Myers said. “I just thought, what could be better?”

Following a standout prep athletic career — Myers was named the Daily Freeman-Journal’s 2015 Female Athlete of the Year — she landed at Iowa Central Community College to play volleyball. From there her travels took her to Iowa and eventually an internship with the sports department at the Daily Freeman-Journal.

In 2018, Myers began her journey with the Iowa communications department. She worked game days for football, being a jack of all trades, and expanded her resume to include other sports.

“You get to do a lot of different things and gain a lot of experience in a number of areas,” she said. “I’ve done a lot of social media things and other random stuff like stats, writing features and game recaps.

“What I really liked about my position too is if FOX Sports or ESPN or the Big Ten Network come in to broadcast a game and they need extra help, they ask us. Last spring I worked in the Big Ten production truck for the men’s gymnastics championships, and I’ve also been hired by the Big Ten to be a timeout coordinator at basketball games. A lot of what I do is kind of all over the place.”

A volunteer with the department during the 2018-19 school year, Myers became a paid employee prior to the start of the 2019-20 year. She took on the task of being the media contact for women’s golf and men’s gymnastics — two sports she wasn’t familiar with when the assignments landed on her desk.

“I was nervous going in (last) fall because I didn’t play golf in high school and I was not familiar with gymnastics at all, so I knew it was going to be a challenge.” Myers said. “But my supervisors were great with helping me along and my time with them has really brought in my knowledge about those two sports.”

Myers was slated to travel to Mexico with the women’s golf team over spring break, but the trip was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The virus has caused an upheaval in college athletics — the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments, the NCAA wrestling tournament and all spring sports were canceled — and there’s plenty of uncertainty as schools attempt to prepare for the fall.

And that also leaves Myers in a bit of a bind. She wants a career in college athletic communications, but COVID-19 has shut down all of those opportunities for the time being.

“It’s a lot of uncharted waters right now,” Myers said. “College is stressful enough trying to find a job, but right now the places you thought you were good with are canceling interviews. Trying to stay in this field, I’m obviously worried about it because there are a lot of question marks, but I’m trying to stay positive. I’m just keeping at it and trying to find something.

“Right now, it’s mostly colleges that I’m looking into. I really like what I do, being the communications contact and being that liaison with the press. I like the social media and the writing that I do for teams.”

College athletics will eventually return, that’s a given. And all Myers wants is a chance to be a part of it.