By Megan Sanders, March 24, 2026
The month of March is recognized as Women’s History Month, which provides an opportunity to highlight the achievements of women who have fought to make their way in male dominated fields.
There are many women behind the scenes at Bronco Athletics who play a pivotal role in creating game-day graphics, setting up the broadcasting booth, ensuring athletes are ready to perform at their highest level and promoting the athletes.
Delanie Gearing
At just 24-years-old, Delanie Gearing is working as the assistant director of athletic communications. She is responsible for being the primary media contact for men’s and women’s soccer, men’s basketball and trackand field.
Gearing joined the athletic communications team at CPP during the fall semester of 2024. In just her first semester, she helped cover successful volleyball and cross-country seasons as well as the women’s soccer team winning the national title.
According to Gearing, having so many important milestones right away was exciting, and it was helpful learning how to write a winning story rather than a losing one.
“It was a whirlwind, and I would take it day by day and see what happens and see what we can do to highlight them for who they are as a team,” Gearing said.
A typical day for Gearing includes planning out the graphics needed for social media, ensuring all staff are available to work when needed for gamedays and writing game recaps for the athletics website.
Before working at CPP, Gearing worked for her alma mater Azusa Pacific University from 2022-2024, where she was a graduate assistant and an athletic director of internal affairs.
Growing up, Gearing participated in competitive swimming and water polo. Her swimming career spanned five years at APU, and she also played water polo for the 2022-2023 season.
According to Gearing, being a woman in sports means being able to represent a minority population while also mentoring the next generation of individuals in sports communication.
“I know a lot of women are sometimes scared when they start, but just open up and try new things,” Gearing said. “And don’t be afraid to step into a role even if you have the experience or not.”
Some of her other achievements include winning the College Sports Communicators Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest for the best season recap in the district eight college division and working as a championships and communications intern for the PacWest Conference.
Ashley Musick
A typical day is not so typical for CPP associate head athletic trainer Ashley Musick, who gets to campus at 6 a.m. to open the athletics clinic for student athletes before the first practice of the day.
According to Musick, an athletic trainer can never expect anything because when they do, that’s when everything they didn’t expect hits them all at once.
Musick is currently in her fourth year as the head athletic trainer at CPP. Prior to working at CPP, she was the head athletic trainer at Cal State Dominguez Hills and a trainer at Mira Costa College.
According to Musick, she took on the role of the head athletic trainer at Dominguez Hills early in her career and felt the need to transition to a community college.
“When I left Dominguez, I went to a community college because that was just kind of where my path took me,” Musick said. “I relatively quickly decided that I missed being at the Division II level, and I really wanted to go back.”
Musick was asked by Ruem Malasarn, the assistant athletics director of sports performance, to interview for the position at CPP, a school she had been curious about for a while. Once she got the job, the rest became history.
Her favorite part about being an athletic trainer for the Broncos is being able to get to know student athletes early on in their career and then watch them grow into the best that they can be.
Musick said being a woman in sports means she gets to model the power, strength and intelligence of women and hold space for all the women who come after her.
“There is ample space and room for everybody in sports, and it is male dominated field, but it doesn’t have to be,” Musick said. “There is room for all of us, and I think sometimes we do it better, but that’s just my personal opinion.”
Sarah Macias
Assistant Athletics Director of Marketing and Creative Services Sarah Macias has always been around sports ever since she was young, so being a women working in sports is just the normal to her.
According to Macias, from growing up playing softball to playing in college, a lot of leaders and people she looked up to in her department were women.
“My best advice is to get into it while you are in college because you have no risk,” Macias said to any women wanting to get a career in sports. “You can figure it out before you have to choose a career path.”
Before becoming the assistant athletics director, she worked in facilities and events in the equipment room at CPP. She also worked at Sonoma State as the sports information coordinator for the 2018-2019 academic year and at APU as a graduate assistant before coming to CPP.
Working in sports in college gave her a glimpse into what it looks like without the risk of livelihood.
There are many more women working behind the scenes not only at CPP, but around the world that contribute to the success of athletics programs.