![]() What are we going to do about it? Let’s move forward.” So, I like to say yes, so s**t does happen. You know, there’s a reason why the windshield is that much bigger than our rearview mirror. “Why? Why am I going to keep feeding that? We’re going to keep feeding forward. Because this conversation could have gone in a completely different way if I would have told you the sexual harassment da da da. That sounds ‘Oh, she’s being simplistic.’ And it is that simple. “Every day,” Trejos said of the constant instances of gender inequality. “Either we keep focusing on the things that we don’t have, or we focus on the things that we do have. As a woman working in a male-dominated field, Trejos has seen the ugliness of gender inequality firsthand. She just chooses not to let it stop her or ruin her love for her career. Ultimately, Trejos’ story is a happy one of successes and triumphs, but they haven’t come easy. I’ve done World Cups, and I get paid for this.” I still feel like, ‘I’m getting paid for this?’ I did the NBA. I still feel like I’m having a great time. I have yet to find myself working a day of my life. “I know you got an idea for what it is that you want to be. “The universe said, I know you got plans,” Trejos said. That led to the opportunity to work as the Sports Director at L.A.’s KWHY TV channel 22.īigger and better options opened up for Trejos, and she never looked back. She was then asked to cover tennis at the U.S. Trejos made the most of her three minutes on camera. You edit it, you know, you know.’ And I was like, ‘okay.’ Sure enough. “And it was only a halftime show for a Laker game, and it was all three minutes. “The talent didn’t show up,” Trejos recalled. One of the commentators didn’t show up to work a halftime show, and Trejos was asked to be the emergency fill-in. Working what Trejos described as a side job, fate threw another curve into her life’s path, but this time for the better. Sadly, Trejos and her family never saw her mother again. I mean that it was almost like fight or flight. ![]() “Something to be said about when you’re going through traumatic moments, you just have to be in the moment,” Trejos said. Rather than be paralyzed by grief, Trejos decided to fight for her family by supporting them financially in any way she could. When something terrible happens, people handle trauma in different ways. ![]() Claudia Trejos brings her broadcast experience to BYB Extreme Bareknuckle fighting for the Biloxi Brawl on May 28 Trejos got a job with a company called Prime Sports doing graphics and editing. She sacrificed school and her dream and heroically put her family first. Amid the horror of her mother’s abduction, Trejos jumped into action to take care of her family. Trejos’ mother was a judge in Colombia who was shockingly kidnapped. And then I had to take care of my family, my sister, my younger sister, and her son.” “I got accepted into the biology program, you know, getting my pre-meds yadda, yadda, yadda,” Trejos said. Trejos studied biology at UCLA and seemed to be on her way to achieving her dreams, but a terrible family tragedy interrupted her studies and forever changed her and her family’s lives. She wanted to enter the medical field as a doctor. And he was like, wow.”Įven though Ali’s specter transfixed her at a young age, Trejos never thought of a future as a sports broadcaster. And lo and he behold, that was Muhammad Ali. Trejos continued, “And I was like five years old, and I’m thinking, Oh, my God, what is that? It’s bigger than life and a huge personality. “So I must have been about five years old when I saw this beautiful man who’s bigger than life,” Trejos said of Ali. ![]() Out of all the boxers her family watched, Trejos’ favorite was Muhammad Ali. But the world would stop at any given moment, specifically when Muhammad Ali was fighting and then Roberto ‘Manos de Piedra’ Duran,” Trejos told FanSided. “Well, it’s an interesting story because my family was definitely not into sports at all. ![]()
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