From the spring of 2010, when I received my first beat, until the fall of 2012, when I finally became too busy with classes to continue writing, I was fortunate enough to be a sportswriter for Ithaca College’s award-winning newspaper, The Ithacan. Here are some of my highlights from my time on the paper.

Underwater hockey club seeks new home in Athletics and Events Center

My final piece for The Ithacan originally started as an article I wrote for a class website/quasi-newspaper focused on “Weird Ithaca.” When I told my editors at The Ithacan what I was writing about though, they were intrigued and asked me to expand it into a sports front-page feature story. The result is one of my favorite stories, a profile of the bizarre sport called underwater hockey and the Cornell University students who play it.

The Extra Point

From the start of the Spring 2011 semester to the end of the Fall 2011 semester at Ithaca College, I wrote The Ithacan’s general sports blog, The Extra Point. Starting here, on page 2 of my Ithacan archives, and going back to page 10, you can see almost all of the posts I wrote for the blog. Subjects included no-hitters in baseball, college conference realignment, Ithaca’s annual grudge match in football against SUNY Cortland and pretty much anything else I could manage to tie in as “sports.”

Women’s Volleyball

 

Women’s Golf

 

Men’s indoor track and field

 

Men’s cross-country

Men’s Outdoor track and field

Men’s Swimming and diving

Men’s Soccer

Men’s Crew