As the new sports reporter for The Iola Register, I am super excited to begin covering Iola’s high school sports as well as those of Allen Community College and those in the area. A big thank you to Susan Lynn, Tim Stauffer, Richard Luken, Vickie Moss and everyone else at the Iola Register for helping with this smooth onboarding process and helping me get my toes wet here at the Register.
My plan is to bring the community and its readers the most entertaining and informative stories around the local sports scene and to provide the most straightforward, truthful and timely stories to the town of Iola and its surrounding areas.
I grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland, before moving on and graduating from West Virginia University. In my four years in the mountain state I wrote for a number of news outlets including The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia’s student newspaper, where I worked as a sports writer. The sports I covered there ranged anywhere from football to gymnastics and included different stories like a “Diversity Week” feature on the lone African American Division I men’s soccer head coach Marlon LeBlanc.
Throughout my college writing days, I also spent time with the Mountaineer Maven on SINow.com, the West Virginia University Sports branch of the Sports Illustrated news outlet as well as Blue Gold Sports, the USA Today news outlet branch of West Virginia sports. I also have experience in radio after working at U92 The Moose, the student radio station at WVU.
This showed me the different sides of journalism and that print journalism isn’t the only form of news people enjoy taking in.
I also wrote for my high school’s student newspaper, The Mountain, where I worked my way up to sports editor. At The Mountain, I covered all the bigger high school sports including football, basketball and lacrosse, which is big in Maryland.
My passion for covering sports sparks mainly from my love of storytelling and giving readers clear stories of different players, coaches and topics as well as my love for all different kinds of sports but mainly baseball and football after growing up outside Baltimore as an Orioles and Ravens fan, respectively. I am excited to bring my passion for sports to you. My career dreams include covering professional sports in the NFL and MLB for big national outlets like the AP, NBC or CBS or big city newspapers like The Kansas City Star, The Baltimore Sun or The Chicago Tribune, just to name some.
Again, thank you for the warm welcome to Iola. I couldn’t be happier to be here covering your local sports and telling your community’s stories!
