AGHH! Sports is my worst nightmare as a an adviser. This isn't because I don't like sports, I love them. But I really struggle to get my students motivated to go to the games let alone to come up with ANYTHING to put on our sports page.
Students will say their doing a review of the upcoming season and then submit a small paragraph of information only containing stats. They constantly say, "there's nothing else we can do!"
Beyond going to the game and covering it, I didn't know what to tell students. I didn't know how to generate sports article ideas. I was at a loss every month when we started pitching our ideas.
I am super grateful for Alan's section on Sports Writing today. Not only do I have an idea of several different types of sports stories my students could brainstorm, I have a list of over 20 possible stories that we came up with as a class.
I feel as if I was given a valuable tool today - an idea of how to cover sports so that our newspaper will actually do the athletes, fans, coaches, parents and reading community justice.
Sarah Noah
Goshen High School
Goshen, Indiana
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