08-15-25 *INTERVIEW* CBS Colorado's Lead Sports Anchor Romi Bean Hosting 'Girls In The Game'

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, very happy to welcome to the show or
back to the show. It's been a long time though,
Romi Bean Romie. I got to know Romey a little
bit when she did a lot of radio here at KOA,
and from time to time I'd see her at Broncos
games because she was a Broncos cheerleader as well. She
is the lead sports anchor for CBS Colorado. She's the
first woman ever to be a lead sports anchor in Denver,

(00:23):
and she's doing a cool thing tomorrow that I wanted
to give her a chance to talk about on the show. So, Hi, Romey,
it's good to talk to you, so ros.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Thank you so much for having me on. It's such
a treat. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
So tell us about Girls in the Game. What do
people need to know? Where should they go? How do
they do this? What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah? Girls? So Girls in the Game. It's a free event.
It's from nine to one tomorrow at the University of Denver,
and since schools not in session, there's also free parking
all around the campus, which is good news. You know,
parking is important. But Girls in the Game is designed
to empower young girls, young women to consider a career
in sports too, potentially pursue a career in sports, and

(01:02):
we have got so many incredible organizations's got over forty
organizations that are going to be there. Everyone from your
favorite sports teams, the Broncos and Nuggets, the Rocky CEU,
c SEO down the line. We've gotten nonprofits and all
sorts of careers that maybe you didn't even consider. I
think when we started this event, when I was growing up,
I always wanted to pursue something in sports, but I

(01:24):
didn't know what that looked like, and there wasn't really
any sort of event available to me where there was
all of these careers in one place, and so we
wanted to create that for whether you're thinking about careers
and you're a younger girl, or you're a woman, or
you're in college. It's kind of designed for all ages.
We've also got sports clinics, so if you're coming and

(01:45):
you got a little sister who's like, I don't care
about careers, that's great. We've got twelve different sports clinics.
You know, everything from flag football to fencing. So it's
really designed for anyone of all ages, but really to
maybe tickle your brain to help you find your passion.
And there are so many incredible women that they're going
to be there careers that I didn't even know existed.

(02:05):
Ross you know, everything from what you think of, right,
maybe the front facing media, to so much incredible work
behind the scenes, sports medicine, scouting, everything down the line.
So there's a little bit of everything there that maybe
just maybe we'll inspire, inspire someone to find a career
path in sports and get more women involved in the
world of sports.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, and like you said, there's so many different aspects
of potential careers in sports that go beyond just the
first thing that'll come to your mind. Right, it's going
to be a very very minuscule percentage of women or
men who end up being good enough at a sport
to actually be a professional athlete. And it's probably actually
even harder for women, right because they're just you know,

(02:45):
fewer professional sports leagues and fewer opportunities there. There's TV
stuff that you get to do, not very many people
get to do that. What do you just pick like
one or two other non obvious careers, potential careers and
sports for women that you think might be fascinating. Yeah,
you know, we spoke to.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I spoke to a young woman yesterday who is a
sports psychology. You know, growing up I always wanted to
study psychology, I never did, so du is going to
have their sports psychology program there. I think that's such
a fascinating different aspects when you think getting to help
athletes on the mental side. I think Air Force was
there last year, they'll be here again, and they have
so many incredible jobs that have to do with athletics,

(03:27):
but also have to do with you know, high security
and different kind of details like that, which again are
totally connected to the world of sports. You still get
to be part of a team, you still get to
be helping athletes, but something so far off the spectrum
that I would have never thought, oh yeah, wow, this
is totally a job in sports. And then you see
a lot of you know, the marketing and the community

(03:50):
work and all of those kind of different jobs as well.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
So I think that the Air.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Force jobs would be really cool though, because it's if
you have a passion as well for service and you
want to be involved in athletics as well, right, that's
an avenue that you can pursue. So those are some
of the cool one sports medicine. We're really happy to
have sports medicine on board this year. I also wanted
to be a doctor. I wanted to be a lot
of things. Rosman ended up being on TV right, But
all of these things have that tie into the world

(04:16):
of sports. A lot of people who were former athletes
and are looking for how do I keep being part
of this world when I'm not performing on the field anymore,
And there's just so many different ways.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
So ROMI tell us how folks can can register to
attend Girls in the Game, Which, folks, if you didn't
get this before, it's free right at DU tomorrow. But
how can folks get all the information? Sign up if
they need to, or can they just show up? But
what websites should they go to? And so on?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yees, so you can do both. We'd love for you
to register before if you can Cbscolorado dot com slash
Girls in the Game and there's a link to register
there and you can see more of all the organizations
are coming. But if you don't have time to register,
no big deal. You can register on site tomorrow again.
It goes from nine to one and it's on the
University of Denver campus. It's in the Hamilton Gymnasium, but

(05:07):
there'll be directions around there if you can't find where
you're going, so you can register before. But if you don't,
don't worry to show up, you can register. It's free
and I'd love to have everybody out there awesome.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Romy Bean is CBS Colorado's lead sports anchor, first woman
ever to be lead sports anchor in Denver, pretty fantastic,
and hosting Girls in the Game tomorrow at du So
you can go where romy just said. And if you
forget any of that, if you go to my blog
at Rosskominski dot com and click on the Friday blogcast,
I've got the links with the information for Girls in

(05:39):
the Game, including where you can sign up and where
you go and when it is and all that. Very
cool event. Romi, thanks thanks for doing what you're doing.
Thanks for telling my listeners about it.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, Roth, I appreciate it so much. Thank you for
letting me share. Glad to Glad to