There’s no need to worry about Cullman making the nightly news on Fox 6.

With Christina Chambers working for the station as a sports reporter, it’s already a guarantee.

Not only is the well-traveled 28-year-old a proud Cullman native, she’s also such an enthusiastic alumnus that pitching stories on her beloved Bearcats comes rather easy.

“When I started at Fox 6, this was a dream of mine,” said Chambers, a UAB graduate. “How many places can you work and cover your high school alma mater and your college alma mater? This is like a dream come true for me, because this is exactly what I wanted to do.”

In the nine months or so she’s been with the Birmingham outlet, Chambers has had the privilege of covering Cullman’s first state soccer championship since 2002 and the Bearcat baseball program’s third straight trip to the state finals. Last Friday’s home game against Oxford, however, marked her first time shooting football at Oliver Woodard Stadium.

Chambers took full advantage of the opportunity, making the social rounds before settling in to capture the early action for WBRC Sideline.

“It’s just awesome. I love any time I can put Cullman on the map,” she said. “This is where you grew up. This is your hometown. I used to sit in those stands 10 years ago and cheer on the Bearcats, so it’s really cool to be back and just see how much the school’s changed and things have progressed.”

The most obvious change Chambers noticed was to Cullman’s track. One of her seasons as a star hurdler, the surface wasn’t fit for competition and actually forced the ‘Cats to have their meets at Wallace State.

Since significant stadium renovations in 2010, though, the track’s in tip-top shape and has hosted the past two Class 1A-3A state outdoor championships.

“I just can’t get over it,” Chambers said. “I’m like, man, I wish I would’ve had this (laughs).”

Chambers’ broadcasting roots reach back to her CATS 55 days at Cullman High. She made sure to catch up with her former teacher, John Drake, for a selfie on the sidelines last Friday and had no problem admitting the program’s impact on her eventual career path.

“I knew I always wanted to be involved in sports, but I knew I wasn’t going to go professional in running. Because I’m sorry, I’m not Lolo Jones,” she said. “So which way can I be involved without actually participating? It was a no-brainer — it was cover it. And I’ve enjoyed every single minute of it.

“Being involved in stuff like CATS 55 here really helped me. I was glad our school had that program.”

After four years on scholarship in cross country and track, Chambers graduated from UAB in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. It wasn’t long before she landed at Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS) in Atlanta, where two of her top broadcasting moments took place.

The first was her Emmy nomination for an hour-long sit-down with Charles Barkley and second was being on site for the 2010 national title game.

“Just seeing Auburn and Oregon battle it out, back and forth,” she said. “I remember I’m on the sidelines getting ready. You see the field goal go through the uprights. Everybody just looked at each other like, ‘Did Auburn just win their first national championship since 1957?’ And then everybody sprinted to the field.”

For Chambers, it was more like a sprint to the finish.

“Just to go through the whole season covering Auburn and then get to experience that in your first year of broadcasting, I was just like, ‘Whoa, this is really cool,'” she said.

Though neither quite trumps that memory, Chambers said covering the Kick-Six and Prayer at Jordan-Hare are both “definitely up there.”

The ending of the former had her constantly shifting sides to the team that looked like it was going to win.

Then, with one second left on the clock, the unthinkable happened.

“When Chris Davis caught the ball and just ran it back, that’s another shocking moment where you just look at your photographer and then you’re like, ‘Run!'” Chambers said. “Then we sprinted all the way down to the field just to try and get the dogpile.

“That’s another good one, too, that you’ll never forget. It’s one of those things you just have to pinch yourself and you’re like, ‘Did I really just see that? Did I witness that? Gosh, that’s crazy.'”

Before becoming the interviewer, Chambers remembers being the interviewee as a freshman at Cullman. Standing at the top of the stadium with teammate Jessica Geisen, Chambers was asked about her ultimate goal.

Without hesitation, she responded she wanted to break the Bearcats’ 300-meter hurdle record, which was held by Hillary Stiefelmeyer at the time.

Three years later, the record was among the five she owned.

“Who knew my senior year I would finally accomplish that?” Chambers said.

Sharing the accomplishments of others is now more Chambers’ style. Just last week, she made the trip to Holly Pond for a segment on kicker Savanah Fortner, the first female to score a point in program history.

Telling Fortner’s barrier-breaking tale is only the latest confirmation for Chambers that she picked the right profession.

“Just being able to share these kids’ stories. Because I knew, when I was in athletics, the adversity that you battle,” she said. “Everybody has a different story. It doesn’t matter how you get to point A, there’s different routes people take. And to be able to share those along the way, it’s just cool to tell.”