Meet the Boosters

Elijah Agurs is a freelance photographer, videographer and creative director who wants to push the boundaries of photography to tell stories and show emotions that can’t be understood through words. He takes his best photos when he feels the most creatively free, like at the Oregon22 World Championships.

Alex Andrei is a visual track and field storyteller. He tries to show athletes’ visceral emotions — his favorite project was when he mic’d up Olympian Clayton Murphy during an 800-meter race. He has freelanced for Nike, New Balance, Citius Mag, the American Track League and The Ohio State University.

Jay Bendlin works for the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, shooting photos of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United. Whether he’s standing on a folding chair above a crowd or shooting from a stadium roof, he focuses on preparation and consistency, so he’s always ready to capture peak moments. He doesn’t have a favorite photo; usually, he’s thinking about creating his next one.

Hannah Borenstein is an Anthropologist Fellow at the University of Chicago. She has spent several years in Ethiopia, and is working on a book about Ethiopian women distance runners’ lives beyond their running. More broadly, she writes about gender, labor and race in the context of the international running world.

Katherine Burgess (who designed and built this website) is the co-owner of Rhoam Creative Studio, which is a women owed agency. Rhoam brings graphic design, photography, art direction, and more to sports and lifestyle brands. Using graphic design, Katherine wants to showcase women’s sports through new perspectives.

Demitra Carter is a former Baylor sprinter who wants to feature athletes’ personalities outside of the track. She started Tiny Talks, a new-age interview platform that asks athletes light-hearted questions to help bridge the gap between fans and athletes. Demitra is also a digital assistant for Team USA and runs their social media teams.

Ben Crawford is an all-around creative who wants to take track and field mainstream — shrinking the distance between top athletes and the people who follow them and creating crossover between the sport and pop culture. He started New Generation Track and Field and has worked with major brands like Nike, On, Garmin, Hoka and more.

Serenity Douglas is a former NCAA All-American and two-time Big 12 champion while at Texas. You can currently find her on the air on KYTX CBS19 in East, Texas but still finds her way to many meets across the country as a freelance sideline reporter, emcee, and color commentator.

Anderson Emerole has been more comfortable defining himself as a journalist since joining Magic Boost. He created Track and Field Black History, which connects the sport’s past, present and future, telling stories about athletes like Olympic gold medalist Quincy Watts. Anderson also runs The Final Leg, a YouTube channel with up-to-date commentary on track and field news.

Sam Fariss is a freelance journalist and a contributor for RunBlogRun, where she writes the column “Run By Women,” giving a spotlight to female track and field athletes who are often overlooked. Her favorite story was about racewalking, which challenged her to find new way to explain the sport.

Dana Giordano is a podcaster, content creator and retired professional runner who hosts More Than Running with Dana, a Citius Mag podcast giving “an inside look into women’s running from all sides." Dana wants to amplify her fellow female athletes, empowering them to tell their stories. A retired professional runner, Dana wants to provide perspective as a former professional runner.

Elizabeth Hernandez is always searching for opportunities to combine her passions of athletics and communications. She recently finished her master’s degree in sports journalism at DePaul University, where she was a graduate assistant cross country coach. Previously, Elizabeth competed for Cal Poly Pomona and was editor-in-chief of the campus’ newspaper.

Robert Hooper is a sophomore at Tennessee State. When he’s not running anything from 400m on the track to 8K on the cross country for the Tigers, you can find him on TikTok offering his thoughts on the latest track and field news via @RobHoop (33.5K followers) or @CITIUSMAG.

Katelyn Hutchinson is a sprinter for Kentucky and an interviewer with Citius Mag. While she loves every interview, she especially liked talking to Athing Mu about her hairstyle choices. Katelyn has a unique insight into the issues currently affecting athletes (even interviewing people she’s competing against) and isn’t afraid to say what’s on her mind.

John Larracas (who produced the Magic Boost video seen here is a photographer, producer and director. The common denominator in all of John’s projects — like his work with “Humans of HOKA” — is telling stories that the audience can relate to just as much as the story’s subjects.

Taylor Mascetta is a distance runner for Syracuse University while pursuing her master’s in broadcasting and digital journalism at the Newhouse School. Taylor previously attended Fordham University, where she worked for an NPR-affiliate radio station, WFUV, as a sports commentator. She is also an announcer at the Armory Track and Field during the indoor track season.

Kelcey McKinney is a photographer telling stories at the intersection of art and athletics. She wants to help underrepresented black, brown and female runners tell their stories through visual media. A former Division I sprinter and jumper, Kelcey also coaches and manages Nike’s Chicago Windrunners, an all-female sub elite racing team.

Nikki Merrill is a freelance writer. She currently writes for World Athletics on topics related to gender equity, and formerly wrote “The Off Track Blog”. She graduates from Villanova in May 2023 with a double major in psychology and communication, and is seeking writing and communication related opportunities related to sports, mental health, and/or DEIB.

Olumide Olamigoke is a 2016 Olympian, coach, and multifaceted content creator. After representing Nigeria in the Rio Olympics, he shifted his focus to mentoring the next generation of athletes how to create successful careers both on and off the track. He does this primarily through his work from behind and in front of the camera, as a photographer, videographer, and director.

Jillian Michales works as a project manager in the NBC Sports Olympics team, where she’s always advocating for track and field. As the marketing project lead for NBC’s On Her Turf, a women’s sports empowerment initiative, Jillian can be found producing shoots and conducting interviews for social media.

Johnny Pace is a track and field creative who likes telling unexplored stories, and has worked with TinMan Elite, Brooks Beasts and several other teams and brands. Johnny covered Cooper Teare through video throughout the 2022 season — taking a risk in not knowing how it would unfold — and created a compelling documentary-style story.

Matthew Parker is a videographer, photographer, director, journalist, filmmaker and content creator. He’s constantly trying new styles and content forms, getting a little better with every project he creates. Matthew aims to be the LeBron James of media — he doesn’t have to be the best at anything, but wants to be one of the best at everything.

Aaron Potts is the co-creator of the 2 Black Runners podcast along with his brother, Joshua — a podcast produced “for and by the Culture.” He applies what he’s learned from athletes like Dalilah Muhammad and Ajeé Wilson to his own athletic experience, and wants to help create a more equitable environment by uplifting voices that don’t always get heard.

Joshua Potts is a track and field pundit and the co-creator of the Running Report alongside his brother, Aaron. In 2020, he co-produced “Running While Black,” which interviewed Black track and field athletes about their experiences with race. Joshua thinks running media needs more Black voices and diversity, and wants to make an impact to help accomplish that goal.

Cole Pressler writes for his school paper at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and does freelance track and field writing. He doesn’t want to just retell events — he wants to tell stories that show something below the surface. He’s written for DyeStat, New Generation Track and Field Magazine, FanHub T&F and more. He also runs for the Cal Poly Distance Club.

Diana Ramos is a high jumper for Arizona pursuing a masters degree in Latin American Studies. Originally from Venezuela, Diana wants to use her voice to amplify other Latinx voices in track and field, researching the history of Latin American sports and the contributions Latinx student athletes’ contributions to college athletics.

Dominique Smith is a freelance sports journalist with bylines in the Orlando Sentinel, Runner's World, Citius Mag and more. His favorite story was an article for Florida Runners about former high school track athletes serving on the frontlines of the COVID pandemic. Dominique is all about simplicity — he tries to be creative without taking away from the story he’s telling.

Jasmine Todd is a long jumper and sprinter for Team USA and a world silver medalist in the 4x100m relay. She works for Citius Mag, producing podcasts with other professional track athletes to help tell their stories. She competed at the University of Oregon, where she was a several-time NCAA All-American.

Colin Waitzman pushes content via Track World News – his Instagram page dedicated to sharing the latest news and his own opinions to the masses in bite-sized chunks. Over the past three years, Colin has attended and covered major events including the Millrose Games, ’22 World Championships, New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, American Track League and more meets in North America.

Ben Weingart is a photographer who grew up at Mile 20 of the Boston Marathon. He considers himself an artist as much as a photographer, and likes shooting things you can’t find at a regular track meet — like his project Don’t Count Me Out, which portrayed the coping mechanisms elite athletes use to combat self-doubt.

Sheridan Wilbur is the editor of Tracksmith’s METER Magazine, writes, and teaches at Tufts University. As a former runner at Duke, she prefers to focus on the emotional journey her subjects go through behind competition — making sure they aren’t seen as ‘just’ runners, and readers feel connected too.

Tiara (Tee) Williams is the founder of RealTalk, a platform that highlights athletes’ stories in a raw and authentic way. A former heptathlete at the University of Texas, Tee is skilled at connecting with athletes on a personal level, like how she got Sydney McLaughlin to open up about mental health during an Instagram Live interview.

Matt Wisner is the editor and creative director of New Generation Track & Field Magazine and runs for the Oregon Track Club. Matt isn’t afraid to write in first-person or throw in edgy jokes — anything that makes his work feel true to him and the subjects he’s covering.

Taylor Woods is a former sprinter and jumper for UConn who is now working on her Masters of Science degree. While in Storrs, she ran student productions for Sports Xtra covering all athletics for the Huskies. She was also a sports anchor intern at WTNH-TV in New Haven.

Ka'Deem Wynn is the director and producer for RunnerSpace, where he has worked for almost a decade. He wrote articles for DyeStat in high school but quickly expanded into shooting and producing videos. Ka’Deem likes any project where he can be hands-on from start to finish and put his creativity on full display.

​​Johnny Zhang (who took most of the photographs for this website) is a photographer and videographer who started taking photos by accident. After quitting his corporate job just before the pandemic, he went all-in on photography and never looked back. Like his photo of Noah Lyles after the 200m final at Oregon22, He won’t share any work that doesn’t make him feel strong emotion.

Emma Zimmerman is a freelance journalist who writes about sport and social change, running and gender, and environmental justice. She is pursuing her masters in creative nonfiction writing at NYU, where she also teaches a writing course. She formerly hosted the Social Sport podcast through Citius Mag.