About me
In seven years of sports journalism experience at daily newspapers, I have proven my ability to generate award-winning breaking news stories, features, enterprise projects, columns and game stories. I have covered NCAA Division I football and men's basketball beats, PGA Tour and Champions Tour golf events, professional football and baseball games, and high school and recreational sports. I also have experience as a copy editor, designer, agate clerk and do-it-all sports editor at a small daily, so I understand all aspects of putting out a high-quality sports section every day.
For the past four years, I have worked in the sports department at The Island Packet, a 20,000-circulation newspaper in the Hilton Head Island, S.C., area, covering everything from high school and recreational sports to professional golf and tennis.
When the sports sections of the Packet and The Beaufort Gazette merged in July 2008, I became the first college beat writer for either paper, taking over coverage of USC Beaufort, a local NAIA college that launched its athletics program in 2007.
In September 2008, I was tapped to head up our ramped-up online sports coverage, becoming the assistant sports editor/online for both newspapers. Our sports department makes a concerted effort to stay on the cutting edge of the online movement, producing audio and video clips from live events to bolster our Web coverage and recording a weekly podcast discussing the area sports scene. Our Verizon Heritage coverage includes a heavy online element, and I have helped drive traffic to our Web site by maintaining Twitter accounts for various beats within the sports department.
I got my start in journalism at the Columbia Missourian, where I worked while earning Magna Cum Laude honors from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. After graduating from Missouri, I spent a little more than a year as sports editor of the Parsons Sun, a small daily in southeast Kansas.
I've posted my resumé and some of my best work here for you to read, so please feel free to let me know what you think.
