Not only was Bermuda represented in various sports events at the Olympics but in an Atlanta TV audio booth one young Bermudian's broadcasting career was also taking off.

Angela Young, 24, who has spent the summer of her senior year of college interning as an audio assistant for NBC Sports was assigned to the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta.

She was stationed to the artistic gymnastics events which took place in the Georgia Dome where she worked with the commentators in the audio booth.

"It has been nerve-racking and exciting at the same time'' Miss Young told The Royal Gazette . She also said that she had been intrigued by the diversity of nationalities and the level of competition.

Miss Young, who is a public relations major at Clark Atlanta University, has had an impressive beginning to her broadcasting career.

Since she has been with NBC she has also worked as both audio assistant and production assistant for live sportscasts featuring the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and New York Jets and the NBA's Charlotte Hornets and Orlando Magic.

Miss Young also completed an internship with Ketchum Public Relations, the second largest public relations agency in the city and third in the nation.

There, she gained experience producing press releases, news articles, biographies and developing press kits for clients such as Delta Air Lines, VISA and ViewCall America.

She explained how her interest in broadcasting began: "At college I got involved with a programme called the `Host Broadcast Training Programme' and I saw the whole side of TV broadcasting.

"It was then that I saw a different side of my interest and thought, hey, I could do this too!'' After her involvement with the university programme, she became the associate producer, set designer and audio manager for a university talk show called "Town Talk'' which aired on the university's TV channel in the Spring of '94.

This year Miss Young has been elected as President of Clark Atlanta's chapter of the Public Relation Student Society of America.

She has also served on the National Conference of Black Mayors Public Relations Committee that was hosted in Atlanta.

Miss Young puts her success in her career, thus far, down to the support of all her family, but especially her aunt, Joan Dillas Wright, noting that, "she instilled in me a lot of courage and motivation.'' "Bermuda is very restricting in that way -- people see things out of a box.

Students are not encouraged to pursue their dreams on the theatrical side.

"My hope is that a young person could look at me and be inspired to at least give it a try.'' Miss Young graduated from Berkeley Institute, attended the Bermuda College and was also a 1993 EXEL scholarship recipient. Her initial goal was to get involved in tourism and that aspiration led to broadcasting.

She said: "I eventually want to get back to my goals in tourism but I like what I am doing right now.'' Miss Young's long-term career goals include "facilitating the need for professional public relations practitioners in Bermuda by establishing a full-communications agency, specialising in public relations and television production within the next five to ten years.

"Being away I have received more exposure than I ever could have in Bermuda.

I have gained a more well-rounded attitude and perspective from working in so many areas and different positions,'' she said.

As far as the recent excitement in her career, she sighed in disbelief: "It has all happened so fast!'' OLYMPIC BROADCASTING -- Pictured here in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta is Bermudian Angela Young who worked for NBC Sports in the audio booth for the gymnastic events at the Olympics.