{"id":50,"date":"2014-08-20T20:20:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T20:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/grsc7900\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:26:04","slug":"content1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/content1\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image: url('http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2023\/11\/GIM7775-683x1024.jpg');background-position: 25% 56%\"><\/figure>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns: 38% auto\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/content1\/img_6127\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-611\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-611  alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2026\/01\/IMG_6127-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2026\/01\/IMG_6127-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2026\/01\/IMG_6127-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2026\/01\/IMG_6127-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2026\/01\/IMG_6127-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2026\/01\/IMG_6127-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2026\/01\/IMG_6127-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2026\/01\/IMG_6127-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Growing up in a Pakistani household as the eldest child, I was surrounded by future doctors, lawyers, and engineers, but I always knew my path was in sports. Even though I couldn\u2019t play growing up, I found my way through sports media, operations, and management. I\u2019ve written for The Red &amp; Black and INTENNSE, managed social media for high school and semi-pro teams, and gained hands-on experience in accreditation and venue operations with Major League Cricket and the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup. I also served as the Assistant Venue Manager and Accreditation Manager for MLC 2025 in Broward County. I\u2019m also fluent in Hindi and Urdu.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00a0<\/h2>\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-transform: none;text-align: left\">Gallery<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" data-id=\"519\" class=\"wp-image-519\" src=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-02-at-11.44.25-PM-1024x564.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2141\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2023-11-02-at-11.44.25-PM-1024x564.png 1024w, 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Even though I couldn\u2019t play growing up, I found my way through sports media, operations, and management. I\u2019ve written for The Red &amp; Black and INTENNSE, managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-ayaanbakaly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}