As a 30-year veteran of community/suburban journalism, I know some stories are hard to get. Others are impossible. On the impossible side is prep sports.
In the beginning you start with a young sports editor and a limited staff, relying on dozens of teenagers to phone in scores. Gradually it grows, until eventually you will get the football standings half-right for the Public League.
Well, you’ve gone far beyond that: football, basketball, baseball, hockey, tennis, swimming, cross-country . . . that’s just the beginning of the list, and you do it for the entire metropolitan area, which stretches from here to Farfoodle. Not to mention sports for both sexes.
In my opinion, prep sports is the toughest job in journalism. Not only is your coverage excellent, but the feature stories are generally exciting and meaningful. And I am not particularly a prep sports fan.
What is truly exciting is that your coverage interests young people in becoming newspaper readers.
