Alison St.Clair currently lives in the Washington, DC area: a city where sports championships were banned for years.
A graduate of Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, Alison earned a BS in Marketing and a BA in Communication. The original plan was to pursue a career in news broadcast. After completing an internship with WDBJ7 Your Hometown Station in Roanoke, VA the former sports director, Mike Stevens, encouraged Alison to focus on a career in sports. At that time, there were few females in the business but that was the day Alison changed her career direction from being the next Katie Couric to the next Linda Cohn.
Alison also interned in the media department while attending Coastal Carolina University. The experience at COASTAL TODAY (now called COASTAL NOW) is where Alison found a passion for the production side of broadcast. Linda Kuykendall, a former Communication professor and mentor, gave Alison the confidence that she was a writer and pushed Alison to write and produce her own segments with COASTAL TODAY, the University Magazine, The Sun News, and the Wall School of Business.
Eventually the passion for writing turned into creating her own sports blog. In February 2010, Alison started www.DaNuhNuh.blogspot.com. With the average blog only lasting 100 days, Alison has continued to write for the past 14+ years. As a result, her own website was created as well as Alison creating her own company. In 2011 Alison was asked to blog for the Double A Radio Show and for Tony Basilio; the Dean of Knoxville sports radio. Alison has been a contributor for Authenticity Magazine and Onside View.
Alison is the owner and President of ALISON ST.CLAIR INC. Her consulting company is focused on making professional athletes, coaches, teams, individuals and companies successful off the field. Alison has worked with high profile players, coaches and teams. Alison specializes in consulting, management, marketing, social media, organization, scheduling, travel, financial, foundations, event planning, home construction, decorating, problem solving, and a lot of adulting skills.
Growing up, Alison became a University of Tennessee fan. She dreamed of playing basketball for Pat Summitt, however, she stopped growing in the 6th grade. Her twin brother, Byron, is a foot taller than her and also a season ticket holder for UT football. Meanwhile, she is still waiting for her growth spurt and for the Vols to be good again. Alison bleeds TEAL and is a proud to be a CCU Chanticleer!
Alison is single with no children (hey, Tony Vitello- call me) so her schedule is planned around sports. Besides UT and all Coastal Carolina University sports, Alison is an avid fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Washington Football Team, and Dustin Johnson PGA. Vin Scully is her idol and Coach Bob Knight is her hero. Charles Barkley and Nolan Ryan were her first sports loves. (It was Jake Taylor until she found out the players in the movie Major League were not real MLB players.) Clint Eastwood and Mick Jagger feed her soul. If she owned a racehorse, Alison would name it RunningInHeels.