{"id":98744,"date":"2019-09-30T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744//?p=98744"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:41:16","slug":"ucf-grad-dreams-further-with-womens-world-cup-nike-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744//ucf-grad-dreams-further-with-womens-world-cup-nike-ad/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Grad Wins Emmy for Nike Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Katie McCain /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744/u201907 a crazy dream has come true, as a Nike commercial produced by the advertising/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744//public relations and radio/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744//television double major recently won the the Outstanding Commercial Award during the 71st annual Emmy Awards./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744/n

McCain, a former women/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744/u2019s soccer player, served as lead producer for the sportswear company’s Dream Crazy ad, which features Serena Williams, Colin Kaepernick and fellow alum Shaquem Griffin /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744/u201916./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744/n

She became enamored with filmmaking after attending a summer video production camp in between her soccer camp schedule. Soon after, she borrowed her father/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744/u2019s video camera and began to create her own videos centered around her friends and soccer teammates with the goal of making them all laugh and cry./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744/n

After graduating from UCF and spending a decade working for various production and advertising companies in Orlando and Los Angeles, she moved to Portland, Oregon, in 2017 to join Wieden+Kennedy advertising agency for her dream job /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744/u2014 producing commercials for Nike./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/98744/n