Kaitlyn Vincie
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Born | Kaitlyn Anne Vincie December 10, 1987 Harrisonburg, Virginia, U.S. |
Occupation | Television presenter, journalist |
Employer | Fox Sports |
Kaitlyn Anne Vincie (born December 10, 1987) is an American sports presenter and journalist. She works for the Fox NASCAR team as a reporter and presents in their daily news and update show NASCAR Race Hub. Vincie's interest in stock car racing began when she was issued with a pit lane pass, and after graduation from Christopher Newport University, she worked as a reporter at Langley Speedway. She garnered attention after self-made video blogs on NASCAR were published on stock car racing website SceneDaily.
Biography
Vincie was born on December 10, 1987, in Harrisonburg, Virginia,[1] and was raised firstly in Bridgewater before her family moved to Warrenton when Vincie had started high school.[2] She is the daughter of John and Margaret Vincie, and has one older sister.[3] Vincie's grandmother, Eleanor N. Logan, was a fifth-grade teacher, while her grandfather was part of the faculty of Bridgewater College.[4] From an early age, she displayed an interest in journalism.[5] Vincie graduated from Fauquier High School in 2006. She competed in track and field competitions, and worked as a manager for the school's wrestling team for four years.[3] She clinched victory in the 800 meters event of the AAA Cedar Run District.[6] Vincie met journalist Al Pearce who mentored her and provided Vincie with a large amount of information. She graduated from Christopher Newport University in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in communications.[3] Vincie worked as an intern for the university's athletics department, and had a similar job for the USAR Pro Cup Series at Charlotte Motor Speedway.[1] She wrote a senior dissertation on auto racing gender disparity which was focused on woman race car driver Danica Patrick, and became interested in the sport after she secured a pit lane pass for the NASCAR All-Star Race.[7] She names Krista Voda and Wendy Venturini as her inspirations.[8]
Vincie successfully auditioned for a job at Langley Speedway after a friend discovered the opportunity while browsing on Craigslist.[2] During her time at Langley Speedway, she waited tables for three nights each week.[3] She interviewed drivers for Langley Speedway TV which were telecast on local television station WSKY and on Cox on Demand.[7] After the conclusion of her first racing season, Vincie became concerned over her future and chose to upload self-made NASCAR reports onto YouTube.[3] She uploaded a video blog series aimed towards racing fans called Hot for NASCAR where she interviewed drivers and gave her opinions on the Sprint Cup Series.[7] Vincie was assisted by producers from Langley Speedway who provided her with a chroma key and installed video equipment. She also studied computer software to allow her to edit her videos.[3] The blogs achieved a large amount of success, that it caused stock car racing website SceneDaily to broadcast them on their site every week.[7] Following her new popularity, Langley Speedway's management elected to keep her for the next racing season, after which she left.[3] Vincie auditioned for Miss Sprint Cup in 2010 but did not make the final round.[7]
Vincie subsequently worked as the marketing director for a Newport News–based tanning salon. She received an email from Speed who hired her as a social media reporter after a successful interview.[3] She worked as part of Speed's Road Tour Team which involved on-camera work for several of the channel's programs dedicated to NASCAR.[9] Vincie moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in the summer of 2012, and Speed placed her on their daily news and update show NASCAR Race Hub late in the season.[3] She hosted a series called Women-In-Racing, and said her favorite segments were on Hendrick Motorsports tire specialist Lisa Smokstad, and Christina Rudisill, a race engineer for Richard Petty Motorsports.[9] Vincie was involved in Speed's coverage of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season-ending award banquet held in Las Vegas in 2012. Vincie started working as a pit lane reporter for K&N Pro Series East races on Fox Sports 1 in 2014, and was made a feature reporter on NASCAR Race Hub that same year.[1] She received help from fellow pit lane reporter Steve Byrnes.[10] Late in the 2014 season, she began working as a garage reporter for NASCAR Race Day and NASCAR Live. In addition, Vincie filed feature reports for Fox Sports 1's coverage of the Camping World Truck Series, and was the co-host of The Mock Run a view of the latest developments in NASCAR taken from a comedic point of view.[1] She secured help from Fox writer Dave Vrable to assist her in writing scripts and jokes.[2] 1x1px
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External links
- Kaitlyn Vincie at the Internet Movie Database
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- Kaitlyn Vincie on Instagram
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- Living people
- 1987 births
- 21st-century American journalists
- American television hosts
- American women journalists
- Christopher Newport University alumni
- Fauquier High School alumni
- Journalists from Virginia
- NASCAR people
- People from Bridgewater, Virginia
- People from Harrisonburg, Virginia
- People from Rockingham County, Virginia
- People from Warrenton, Virginia
- American women television presenters
- American YouTubers
- 21st-century American women