Anna Laible is about to add another accomplishment to her already impressive resume.

The Lehighton teenager is covering the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

It’s a dream come true for Laible, who, in the last few years, has co-hosted the National Dog Show, reported for Sports Illustrated Kids and written for MLB.com.

Laible, 19, was on her way Friday to France with a team of fellow journalists from the University of North Carolina.

“It still hasn’t sunk in yet, but I’m incredibly grateful for this opportunity to cover my first of hopefully many Olympic Games,” Laible said. “Without my parents’ support and help over the past five years, this wouldn’t be possible, and so I’m incredibly grateful to them for helping me chase my dreams, this one being one of the top ones.”

Laible said she made it her goal to get to the Olympics a few years ago.

“At 16 when I was the reporter for the National Dog Show Jr. on Peacock in 2021, and worked alongside Laurie Hernandez, an Olympic gymnast, and Matt Iseman, who has done hosting at the Olympics, I knew that I wanted to find a way to cover the Paris Olympics,” she said.

When it came time to decide on a college, it was important for Laible to find one that would be taking a team to the games. She discovered that the University of North Carolina was planning to do so.

“However, I was told it was going to be pretty hard to make the team, considering that all of the other students which they were considering were almost all upperclassmen or recent graduates,” Laible recalled. “However, there was still a slight chance I could make it, so the odds didn’t scare me and I knew with God’s help, anything was possible.”

Laible knew she’d have to work hard.

“So I did all I could do in my control to show the professor who would be selecting the students what I was capable of doing in the fall of 2023, my first semester in college,” she said.

She applied and received a position to write for the sports desk for The Daily Tar Heel, and earned a job with GoHeels Productions. GoHeels, she said, is the production team that puts all of UNC’s home sports on ACC Network, ESPN+ and other platforms.

Additionally, Laible was originally waitlisted for a UNC sports show class with mostly seniors and a few juniors.

“I was able to get off the waitlist and I took it my first semester to show (the professor) what I could do,” she said. “Ultimately, all of the work which I put in to show him what I was capable of, even in my freshman year, paid off and I’m stoked to be going to cover the Paris Olympics as the youngest in our UNC team.”

Laible will arrive in Paris today.

She’ll be there until Aug. 10 with a team of 20 students.

Her coverage will appear in the Raleigh News & Observer, as well as the Charlotte News and several sister newspapers in South Carolina.

They’ll also be posted online. Laible also plans to share news of her days with the Times News. She can be found on Instagram at @anna_laible.

She is the daughter of Greg and Jennifer Laible of Lehighton.