Alumna continues Olympic legacy

“We worked every [baseball] game,” Turner said. “We helped the people who were doing the scores and the mix zone, which is where they do the interviews with the athletes afterwards.”

Until voted off of the Olympics in 2012, baseball had been a sport that competed every day over the two-week period of the Olympics. Turner’s schedule was packed and intense, sometimes working three games in a day and also alligning reporter interviews with the athletes.

Though Turner and Teaberry were both at the Olympics in 1996, they did not meet until they both started working at NIU. Then at 25 years old, Teaberry was competing in the women’s high-jump for the U.S.

She made it through the first four heights…