TNA

Debuting as a manager in 2002 with Golden State Championship Wrestling, and continuing to hone her craft with various independent companies over the following few years, SoCal Val is probably best known as a TNA producer, announcer and occasional performer. She officially joined the company in 2006 after several appearances the previous year,  gained a vast amount of notoriety among fans in 2008 after turning on Jay Lethal after an onscreen romance and engagement, eventually joining Sonjay Dutt as a gold digging heel who was only with Dutt for his – storyline – father’s money. What many fans wouldn’t realize is that she was also a producer with the company , helping a number of the perfomers with their vignettes – specifically helping them with French, German and other languages she speaks when they need to record country specific promos. She also wrote a vast number of scripts for many vignettes and promos for the international market, as well as fully producing many of them. After leaving Total Nonstop Action