Kelcey Wright Johnson’s road to Memphis has taken her around the world.

It’s been quite a journey since Wright Johnson graduated with a masters degree in journalism from Western in 2014, but it’s one she’s enjoyed thoroughly.

The former Mustangs and Ryerson Rams basketball star has travelled the globe as a sports journalist and recently landed her first full-time gig as a sideline reporter for the National Basketball Association’s Memphis Grizzlies.

The five-foot-nine former guard said she was attracted to journalism out of a desire to travel and when she won an internship to cover the World University Games in Russia in 2013 that opened her eyes to new possibilities.

“They picked two people from each continent to go,” she said. “I thought, ‘I like sports. I like writing. This will be cool. It’s free and it’s experience.’ And then after those Games, I thought: ‘This is it. This is what I want to be doing with my life.'”

Before the University Games experience, she wanted to be a foreign corespondent.

“I’ve loved sports my whole life and I love journalism, but it wasn’t until the World University Games that my mind went ‘Oh, this is what you should be doing,'” she said. “I don’t know why I didn’t put those two passions together.”