We all have a favorite movie growing up, but the one that left a mark on Christie Wood \u201997, \u201902 MS wasn\u2019t a feature-length film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was really big into One Shining Moment<\/em> at the end of the NCAA [tournament], and I wanted to make highlight films,\u201d says Wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fast forward to today, and it\u2019s apparent that film left quite the impression on Wood, who is in her 24th year as video scouting coordinator for Major League Baseball\u2019s Draft Operations. When Wood was hired in 2000, she was the first female scout in the MLB. She\u2019s also the longest serving. \u201cI mean, there\u2019s never been another female, so far, in the history of the game, with any sport, that has worked as a scout longer than me,\u201d says Wood, who graduated with a communication degree, got a master\u2019s in sport management and shot video for many NC State teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI mean, there\u2019s never been another female, so far\u2009. . .\u2009that has worked as a scout longer than me.\u201d Wood, 49, spends her late winters, springs and summers away from her home in Raleigh on the road, compiling videos of the top prospects that are then housed in the league for teams to review. She travels up and down the East Coast, from Florida to Maine and over to Kentucky and Tennessee. She\u2019s assigned different high school and college\u2009\u2014\u2009mostly ACC, SEC and CAA\u2009\u2014\u2009practices and games, capturing the swings and curveballs of talent that MLB teams will bank their hopes on in the draft every summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And she has indeed been in early with her camera on some future stars. There\u2019s former New York Mets\u2019 great David Wright and Los Angeles Angels\u2019 perennial All-Star Mike Trout, who has three American League MVPs to his name. There\u2019s NC State greats, too, including Carlos Rod\u00f3n \u201915 and Trea Turner. But just as important to her as seeing all that talent before those players bloom into stars is her place as a \u201cpioneer,\u201d a word the MLB uses to describe Wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI do know that there\u2019s like a certain amount of pressure, that I\u2019ve got people watching me. And I hope I\u2019ve always represented MLB well, females well, and things like that,\u201d she says. \u201cI do feel the way I have worked has opened doors for others.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n\n\n\n\n We all have a favorite movie growing up, but the one that left a mark on Christie Wood \u201997, \u201902 MS wasn\u2019t a feature-length film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was really big into One Shining Moment<\/em> at the end of the NCAA [tournament], and I wanted to make highlight films,\u201d says Wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fast forward to today, and it\u2019s apparent that film left quite the impression on Wood, who is in her 24th year as video scouting coordinator for Major League Baseball\u2019s Draft Operations. When Wood was hired in 2000, she was the first female scout in the MLB. She\u2019s also the longest serving. \u201cI mean, there\u2019s never been another female, so far, in the history of the game, with any sport, that has worked as a scout longer than me,\u201d says Wood, who graduated with a communication degree, got a master\u2019s in sport management and shot video for many NC State teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI mean, there\u2019s never been another female, so far\u2009. . .\u2009that has worked as a scout longer than me.\u201d Wood, 49, spends her late winters, springs and summers away from her home in Raleigh on the road, compiling videos of the top prospects that are then housed in the league for teams to review. She travels up and down the East Coast, from Florida to Maine and over to Kentucky and Tennessee. She\u2019s assigned different high school and college\u2009\u2014\u2009mostly ACC, SEC and CAA\u2009\u2014\u2009practices and games, capturing the swings and curveballs of talent that MLB teams will bank their hopes on in the draft every summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And she has indeed been in early with her camera on some future stars. There\u2019s former New York Mets\u2019 great David Wright and Los Angeles Angels\u2019 perennial All-Star Mike Trout, who has three American League MVPs to his name. There\u2019s NC State greats, too, including Carlos Rod\u00f3n \u201915 and Trea Turner. But just as important to her as seeing all that talent before those players bloom into stars is her place as a \u201cpioneer,\u201d a word the MLB uses to describe Wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI do know that there\u2019s like a certain amount of pressure, that I\u2019ve got people watching me. And I hope I\u2019ve always represented MLB well, females well, and things like that,\u201d she says. \u201cI do feel the way I have worked has opened doors for others.\u201d <\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christie Wood \u201997, \u201902 MS has an eye for discovering the next stars in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":5850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"views\/single-immersive.blade.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-immersive-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"backgroundColor\":\"red_400\",\"displayCategoryID\":8,\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"subtitle\":\"Christie Wood \u201997, \u201902 MS has an eye for discovering the next stars in Major League Baseball.\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,9],"tags":[109,125,1501,1500,1503,1504,745,1502,885,1505,1179],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"class_list":["post-5849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-act","category-newswire","category-stories","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-christie-wood","tag-david-wright","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-trout","tag-new-york-mets","tag-one-shining-moment","tag-trea-turner"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":8,"name":"Newswire","slug":"newswire","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":8,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":60,"filter":"raw"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5915,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions\/5915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n