Victoria Nguyen

You have extensive experience working in sports. Let's hear about it!

At the age of 12, I decided I wanted to watch sports—specifically basketball—for a living. As a freshman in high school, I started volunteering to cover all the teams and had my own sports column in the school newspaper. While studying journalism, I worked for my university's athletics department and filmed games, cut highlights, provided color commentary on broadcasts, produced video features, and wrote about our teams. I got my first taste of working in the NBA as a video production intern with the Charlotte Hornets. After I graduated, I spent three years working for theScore, where I wrote primarily about NBA and college basketball.

What is your dream job?

My dream is still to watch basketball for a living. I would love to carve out a career in the NBA's legal department.

What made you leave your native Toronto for law school in Las Vegas here at Boyd?

First, I was sick and tired of the cold. Second, and much more importantly, Boyd stood out to me because it has the number one legal writing program in the country and offers courses, as well as a law journal, focused on gaming law. I was intrigued by the prospect of studying in Las Vegas, a growing major sports city with the UFC, Golden Knights, Raiders, NBA Summer League, and so on. I have a hunch that when the NBA expands, it will bring a team back to Seattle and a team to Las Vegas. I hope that studying here and learning as much as I can about contracts, copyright, IP, antitrust, and gaming law will give me a leg up on the competition.

We're asking this of everyone... what's the thing you are most looking forward to doing when life as we once knew it resumes?

I am most looking forward to being able to attend sporting events and to travel again. The first thing I will do when life goes back to normal is go to school and hug all my friends.