{"id":2681,"date":"2022-08-03T20:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T01:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2023-08-01T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:21:11","slug":"mini-sports-reporter-makes-moves-on-the-sidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/mini-sports-reporter-makes-moves-on-the-sidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini sports reporter makes moves on the sidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\">By Alexis Davis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>NABJ Monitor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Pepper Persley shares details about her conversation with Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_7NKKCYExEg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the tender age of 11, Pepper Persley is breaking barriers and scoring big, one sideline at a time. She is wasting no time living out the question most people her age get asked as they get older, \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This 11-year-old has made it a point to cover both WNBA and NBA sports leagues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing and it\u2019s something I never would have thought for me at this age,\u201d Pepper said. \u201cBroadcasting and reporting is like my long-term goal as an adult and the fact that it&#8217;s happening now is something very incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-bottom is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-bottom is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pepper-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pepper-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pepper Persley and WNBA Basketball Player Britney Griner\" class=\"wp-image-2689\" width=\"635\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pepper-1.jpg 1270w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pepper-1-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pepper-1-848x1024.jpg 848w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pepper-1-768x928.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pepper started going to New York Liberty Games at a young age with her family, which sparked her passion for reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Affectionately known as the \u201ckid reporter,\u201d Pepper wasted no time jumping into the action and leaving her mark. She scored an interview with Liberty point-guard Sugar Rodgers. The interview resulted in Rodgers and Pepper creating their own handshake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In just five years time, she has interviewed some of the biggest names in sports including Reporters Ros Gold-Onwude, Arielle Chambers, and Basketball Players A\u2019ja Wilson, Kelsey Plum, Sue Bird and Natasha Cloud.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of all of her star interactions, Persley says she was the most nervous to interview Phoenix Mercury Point-Guard Dianna Taurasi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had the chance to interview Dianna Taurasi and as someone who watched her previously, I have to admit I was a little bit scared and definitely nervous because she&#8217;s so intense on the court and the fact that she was so nice to me is something I will always remember.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her father, Christopher Persley has been one of Pepper\u2019s biggest advocates. Watching her evolve into an impactful journalist, grips him with gratitude.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s great that she has connections with so many different people she looks up to and are accomplished in different fields, so I\u2019m quite grateful for that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just want her to be the best Pepper she can be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from crafting her way into arenas, Pepper is also a star softball player, a black belt in taekwondo, violin player and has even taken on learning how to play squash. She has her sights set on higher heights in the journalism world but enjoying the journey along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Pepper Persley is breaking barriers and scoring big, one sideline at a time.  <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/mini-sports-reporter-makes-moves-on-the-sidelines\/\" title=\"Mini sports reporter makes moves on the sidelines\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,38,363,152],"tags":[366,364,365],"class_list":{"0":"post-2681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archives","8":"category-features","9":"category-nabjnahj22","10":"category-sports","11":"tag-alexis-davis","12":"tag-pepper-persley","13":"tag-sports-journalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}