NASCAR Week: This interview is part four in a series of five articles this week on jobs in NASCAR.
If you've ever watched a NASCAR race, you've seen Krista Voda. As a pit reporter for NASCAR on Fox, she brings fans into the pits to get insights, predictions and reactions from drivers, crew chiefs, team owners and other stakeholders in the know. And when she's not on TV, she offers her behind-the-scenes take on the sport on Twitter.
Although she has a dream job now, Krista was one of those women who, like many of us, graduated college and then thought, "Now what?" Realizing quickly that she needed to hit the ground running, Krista held jobs in radio sales at KROS, her hometown radio station in Clinton, Iowa, as well as small market television sales. She then became a sports reporter at WLEX in Lexington, Ky., and eventually moved her way up to weekend sports anchor, where she spent a handful of years before moving to Charlotte, N.C., to cover NASCAR. During her tenure at WLEX, Krista cut her teeth — covering everything from NCAA tournaments, to College Bowl games, to the NFL and World Series playoffs. She even co-anchored the station's annual live coverage of The Kentucky Derby.
Krista believes hard work and taking risks pays off — and based on her extensive resume, we can't hep but agree with her.