(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Hunter Pee-Wee team scores a touchdown in a 26-20 win over Olympus Gray during a Ute Conference youth football championship at Mount Jordan Middle School on Oct. 31, 2020. The Ute Conference, the largest youth football league in the state, ran an 11-week season for 6,000 kids over the summer yet saw just 30 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Julie left the beach of Santa Cruz, Calif., where she worked for 17 years, for the mountains of Salt Lake City in 2019. She has covered the NBA Finals, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Maverick's big wave surf contest and two Olympics. A Colorado native, she enjoys creating her own adventure, occasionally with her husband and two kids in tow.