Robert Gonsoulin

Sports have always taken the number one spot for my biggest passions since I was young. My fascinations  for different teams, games, athletes and coaches drove me to want to work in its community and express my own love for the ways we are all motivated by sports. Early on, I knew that reporting would be the perfect outlet for me to immerse myself more into a world that brings a tremendous amount of people closer together.

Beginning in my junior year of high school in 2019, I became a VYPE U Ambassador for my high school Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, writing web articles about the school’s sports, conducting post-game interviews with athletes and creating other various content for VYPE Media. Throughout my time reporting for this outlet, I began to regularly report on other high schools in the greater Houston area, in addition to my own, traveling all across the city and meeting athletes who are performing at the college level today. In the fall of 2020, I co-founded and co-hosted the VYPE U Podcast, where I discussed the biggest games and topics in Texas high school sports at the time

When I started attending the University of Texas at Austin as a Journalism major in the fall of 2021, I knew that the opportunities for me to grow as a sports reporter were expanding. I joined the sports department of Texas Student Television (TSTV), UT Austin’s student-broadcast organization, during my second semester. Not long after joining, I became involved in their different shows, taking on various roles such as hosting episodes and analyzing different UT sports. I also gained an understanding of producing video and working behind the scenes by assisting TSTV show directors in the control room. In the spring of 2023, I became an associate producer for TSTV Sports’ College Crossfire show. Heading into my third year as a UT undergraduate student, I plan on continuing my involvement with the group!

In the summer of 2023, I earned my first internship in the broadcasting field, interning for KXAN, Austin, Texas’ local NBC affiliate station owned by Nexstar Media Group. Throughout this internship, I worked alongside sports reporters, helping them create video content for their segments of the nightly newscasts and shadowing them as they conducted sports stories in the field. Along with helping produce the station’s sports content, I also practiced my own reporting at KXAN’s official studio and at the sites of real news stories.