Sports' Blog

My first story for WVU News was an absolute success! 

Our second newscast of the semester was a blast to complete and I am so proud of our team for making each show better than the last. We are getting stronger each week! My package for this show made WVU News’ Best of the Rest website and I am elated with how it turned out and the improvements I’m making as a reporter. I was ready to get to work on this package, so as soon as we wrapped up shooting our first show in the studio, I headed out to the Monongalia County Ballpark to start my story. I knew this would be a great newsworthy piece because our baseball team was about to hit the road that Friday for their season opener. 

For show 3, my story was about Mary Roush being named the 68th Mountaineer Mascot. Roush is only the third ever female Mountaineer in WVU’s history. Going in, I went into this story not knowing who was going to win until the announcement of the winner. So, I had to come up with specific questions to ask each candidate if they won. I wanted to do this story because this competition only occurs once a year and the Mountaineer is the most recognizable person in the state of West Virginia. When people think of West Virginia, the Mountaineer is often the first thing that comes to people’s minds.

After completing our fourth newscast of the semester, it’s hard to believe that we only have one more left! I have gotten more confident each cycle and as a team we are truly getting the hang of producing a great show. For this newscast, things ran a little differently. We had a thirty minute block to fill, instead of our normal 15 minute time slot. This gave each of our reporters more creative freedom to produce longer packages. My fellow sports reporter Andrew and I decided to do our sports segment together this week to give joint coverage on the Mountaineer football team’s spring training.To make sure we had a dynamic package, we decided to each focus on different story angles.

For Show 5, my story was how COVID cancellations affected the mental health of student athletes in