Since 2019, Feeney has been quickly rising through the ranks ofsocial media influencers.
Her career has taken her to the Super Bowl and the White House.
So, how did she get here?
Let’s take a look back.
She grew up in Olney, Maryland with her two older brothers and her parents.
From a young age, she was surrounded by sports.
Despite her sporty upbringing, she once had dreams of entering a very different career.
“And then I wanted to go into physical therapy up until my junior year of high school.”
When Feeney was young, she even trained with Abbey Lee Miller ofTLC’s “Dance Moms.
“As Feeney explained onTikTok, she wasn’t a part of the series.
Instead, she attended because she’d won a scholarship to the dance camp.
“Throwback to when I went to Abby Lee boot camp,” she captioned the post.
As a teen, she later became an ambassador for Dance Hope Cure in 2017.
“I made comedy videos, too,” she told theNew York Post.
“I hadn’t gotten into a niche yet, but I had fun.
But Musical.ly wasn’t cool at all especially not in the way thatTikTokis cool [now].”
In fact, it was considered so lame she started to get bullied.
“I’d come home crying, saying, ‘I don’t want to do this.
I don’t want to be the weird social media girl.'”
However, after a year, she realized that she shouldn’t let other people’s opinions affect her.
She told Elite Daily, “So I continued and started doing lifestyle content like unboxing videos.”
While she was there, she got involved in a number of extracurriculars.
For one thing, she was on the cheerleading team.
She posted a video showing off her skills with a friend onInstagramin 2019.
According to her Instagram feed, she also competed as a high jumper.
Onevideofrom 2019 showed her doing some high jump practice.
Feeney’s rankings and best times as a track and field athlete can be found onMile Split.
Evidently, Feeney stayed extremely busy as a teen.
In anInstagramvideo from 2019 captioned, “Didn’t think it would be this hard.
I miss my annoying brothers,” Feeney showed clips of her two brothers moving away from home.
She posted the same video toTikTokwith the caption, “My brothers left for college today.
I’m gonna miss them sm.”
At the beginning of the video, her brothers can be seen packing up the car.
Then, there are a few clips of Feeney helping the two boys settle into their dorm rooms.
It then flashes to a clip of Feeney frowning as she says goodbye.
Finally, we see the two boys waving as the car drives away with a crying Feeney inside.
Pretty soon, her videos started to go viral.
Her success continued after the COVID-19 pandemic hit and she started posting more and more videos.
Within just three months, she gained 3 million followers.
“I would say on TikTok it’s much harder to grow at the pace I grew at.”
“My mom and I screamed once we realized this was actually happening, and I cried.”
However, everything changed when she began earning money on social media.
Suddenly, she could afford to go to college outside of her home state.
She picked Penn State University thanks to its incredible football culture and its school spirit.
However, she quickly realized that might not be possible.
Then, in her very first week during a freshman assembly, one of her teachers spilled the news.
So much for going unnoticed.
“It was so unreal: the atmosphere, the students…
Ever since then, Feeney has been focusing more and more on sports reporting and content.
“I knew from that moment on that I wanted to do something in sports,” she said.
By the sounds of things, it’s all about organization and staying busy.
“I enjoy being busy,” she said to PSN News.
But, of course, Feeney does sometimes need to take a break and reset.
When she feels overwhelmed, she likes to simply get outside away from her screens.
“It is so therapeutic,” she said to Her Campus.
“That was a surreal moment,” she said to Elite Daily.
I captured a lot of behind the scenes to show the atmosphere at FedEx Field.”
After she filmed these fun behind-the-scenes clips, the team realized just how powerful Feeney’s content could be.
In 2022, she reported from theSuper Bowlwith YouTube.
As she recalled, her 50 videos received a staggering 35 million views over all.
Although it was all new, it made her think about her future career.
It’s been cool to merge the two.”
Clearly, Feeney is well on her way to single-handedly transforming sports journalism.
“I don’t think I have to pick one.”
For now, she’s keeping an open mind and preparing for the unexpected.
She also wants to usher in a new era of sports where women play a bigger role.
