Looking for a job? Back to Profile. Photos Works. Main Photo. Caitlin Morrall. School period Add photo. Career Add photo. Achievements Add photo. Membership Add photo. Awards Add photo. I had spent many years competing in the Miss America Organization and had always placed as one of the runners-up at the state competition.
During one of those years, a judge suggested I try out the Miss USA pageant because my height, my styling and my fashion choices fit the "USA look" a little better. I entered the pageant on the very last day entries were being accepted and really went into it kind of blind! I had watched the Miss USA pageant and the subsequent Miss Universe pageant on television but I had never seen the state pageant in person even. I remember very clearly, during our orientation, the directors during that time telling us "we aren't looking for Miss Wisconsin USA today.
We are looking for the next Miss Universe". Those two sentences really struck a chord with me and every time I walked on that stage, I pretended I was competing in the Miss Universe pageant.
The organization also teamed up with Best Buddies, I particularly loved those events. I continued work with my personal community service platform of Character Education and I also spent a lot of time preparing for the Miss USA pageant that was held in Hollywood.
I still say the night of the Miss USA pageant was the best night of my life. As a wife and mother, I sometimes feel bad saying that. Shouldn't I think my wedding day or the birth of my child were the best nights of my life? I look at it this way - you get a lot of amazing days and nights in your life.
Marriage and children are things that so many people get to experience. But competing on that stage, hearing your name called in the top It's a truly special moment. I had originally studied Education in college. I wanted to eventually become a special needs teacher focusing on students with cognitive disabilities. I had done a lot of substitute teacher's aide work in this field and I really enjoyed anytime I got to work in the classroom.
We were on red carpets, in front of cameras that belonged to Access Hollywood and E! It absolutely fascinated me! When I returned home, I changed my major to Professional Communication and then worked toward finding internships in broadcasting. It allowed me to learn about marketing, event planning, sports recap writing and more importantly it gave me on air experience in the realms of talk show and reporting for High School Football.
The people I met and worked with during this internship encouraged me to audition for a job on Fox Sports Wisconsin. Since I didn't have any television experience at that time, I did not get the job - but the producers saw some potential in the work I was able to show them and hired me as a freelancer to sideline report during the Wisconsin High School Football championships at Camp Randall.
They also hired me to do a few feature reports for Bucks Live, the pre-game show for Milwaukee Bucks telecasts. After that I stayed in the sports industry and did some marketing and on-camera work for a Fantasy Football company that was located in Southeast Wisconsin. Little did I know that my television break would actually stem from my work in Education! A parent at the school I worked Summer Camp at for many years was a producer for the morning news broadcast on Milwaukee's NBC affiliate.
Their traffic reporter had given her notice and he knew I had dabbled in on camera work previously. He got in contact with me and I interviewed for "Live at Daybreak" two days later. I was the traffic reporter at Today's TMJ4 for five years. I loved my job more than I can even say. The hours But the job made it so worthwhile!
The people I worked with were incredible and I made some lifelong friends working there. I think I loved working in broadcasting so much because even though you went to the same job every day, it was always different.
I am someone who craves variety in her work. It was also so inspiring to meet different people who came on our show from time to time. People who were doing amazing things in the Milwaukee community, people who had accomplished incredible things and even a celebrity here and there!
My most memorable day on the air was a morning that started with what we thought was an abandoned car on that major freeway leading out of downtown. What we found out shortly after was that there was a man and his girlfriend in the car refusing to get out. It was also believed they were armed. The stand off lasted until after AM and we usually went off the air at AM.
We basically did one huge traffic report for hours! As exhausting as those long traffic days were sometimes during a snow storm I would be there for 15 hours!
I absolutely love being a wife and mother. I am in a very unique situation being married to someone who is finishing his medical training. It requires me to be what I call "a married single Mom". I would never in a million years compare myself to a real deal single Mom. Those women are the true superheroes!
Basically what I mean by that is that I am managing life day to day without the ability to count on help from my spouse. My husband completed his plastic surgery residency in and is now finishing the last few months of his orthopedic hand surgery fellowship in Boston. After that we will relocate to Los Angeles for his finally!
Being married to someone who doesn't work set hours and someone that many days has to be on call to come in at any moment forces you to try and live an independent life while still being flexible to change plans at a moment's notice.
It was a lot easier to do that without a child in the mix. I was a working mom for the first 18 months of our son's life. Working the hours that I worked and having a spouse with even crazier hours really proved to be a challenge. We were fortunate to have great young women who got up in the wee hours of the morning to come nanny while I worked and my parents were instrumental in picking up the slack anywhere it was needed. Eventually, I decided that in order to keep my own sanity and to be a better wife and mother, I needed to stay home.
Being a stay at home mom is some hard work, let me tell you! I think the most difficult thing is that if you're having a bad day at "work" you don't ever have the ability to leave the office, so to speak.
The greatest joy I've gotten out of staying home is being able to watch our son learn and grow on a daily basis. He's really thrived during this past year living in a city where so much is available to us. He learned his colors by riding the subway, he's learned about taking turns and sharing on the neighborhood playground, we are able to visit places like the New England aquarium and the Boston Children's Museum whenever we please. It's just a really cool perspective.
I'm very excited to see how he tackles a new city and new experiences when we head to the other coast! Right will always come when you least expect it! I had just gone through an incredibly romantically challenged year and wanted nothing but to be by myself and start on a new journey. I had now become interested in the entertainment and media industry. I had gotten a taste of modeling and that was interesting to me as well.
Most of all, my confidence and love of myself was renewed and I was ready to just be in a relationship with me and grow a new and improved life. Well, the very next day I boarded a plane A 20 something medical student was sitting in the terminal in Denver, waiting to board my same flight to Milwaukee where he was attending Medical School.
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