by Kylee D. Miller, Clarke Sports Information intern

The whole attempt started out as simply a long shot goal. "I was just filling out applications looking for a job after graduation," said Bettcher. "I didn't expect a reply."

ESPN receives over one thousand applications a day, and tells applicants on their website not to expect to hear back from the company, but this past fall, Chelsea got a call from a representative.

"I was extremely surprised," she said. "I was told I had made it to the first round of getting a job."

The first round consisted of answering sports trivia questions over the phone. "One question was name a member of the Lakers basketball team who is not Kobe," she said. "I only missed one question out of all of them. It was about golf."

A few days later, she received another phone call. Bettcher had made it to the second round. But this would prove to be much more difficult. "I was sent a test over e-mail and told I had 45 minutes to finish it, so my roommate had to be my timer."

The test was nine pages long and was no longer simply sports trivia. "There was a lot of math and box scores where you had to find errors in someone's calculations. I found a few and each one kept getting more difficult. There were questions about what sport has this and what college did this. I relied a lot on Google."

Bettcher finished on time, missing only eight out of one hundred questions. Within a week she found out that the job was given to someone else. "I was kind of relived when I was told," she said. "I would have had to move out to Connecticut and leave all my family here. The hours would have been crazy and stressful, so this is probably for the better."

Bettcher filled out 25 other job applications, including ESPN, and has been offered jobs from most of them. "I want to work for the Registrar here at Clarke or maybe Prudential," she said. "Too bad I can't say ESPN almost gave me a job when I apply to other ones."