Wagner hosts the Alarm Clock Pep Rally on Friday mornings, bringing Good Morning San Diego the best high school pep rally in San Diego County, and continues that energy into the night as she reports from the Alarm Clock Pep Rally Game of the Week.

Wagner knew she wanted to have a career in sports broadcasting from the age of nine. "I would watch Monday Night Football and just know that I needed to be involved in sports broadcasting," she said. After Wagner graduated from Ramona High School (Ramona, California), she pursued a journalism degree at San Diego State University.

Her first job working in radio was for XTRA Sports 1360/KOGO before she moved to work with the PPR as a field producer. Working her way up the ladder, Wagner has been producing and reporting on sports for KUSI-TV for the past six years.[when?]

Wagner enjoys covering high school football because the game played in this format is the game at its best. "It is football at its most basic, with people who are truly passionate about the game," says Wagner. "The PPR is a way to stay a child at heart being able to watch all the excitement that goes on with these kids and be right in the middle of it all."