So pretty much my entire life has had something to do with media, especially print. Since before I can remember my dad has been a high school basketball coach or softball coach and a highly publicized teacher (dealing with troubled kids is his specialty). Also, my mother passed away when I was very young and she was a very notable person in our community so her funeral and circumstances surrounding our family at the time were made known (my dad's basketball team was going into the finals for the state at the time of her death). It was at this time that my name first appeared in print when several newspapers quoted me following one of my father's wins at the age of four when I entered the locker room telling all of his players, "I'm so proud of you and I know my Mommy is too," causing not one dry eye in the entire locker room and surrounding area.
When I entered middle school I was approached with the opportunity of taking part in the school newspaper and jumped on it! I was bit with the journalism bug and couldn't seem to shake it. It became my goal to get onto the staff of the prestigious Ashland High School student run newspaper Panorama. I thought it was the coolest thing ever! So I made my way up the ladder on the staff and finally I got to become editor-in-chief of the number one high school newspaper in the country for both weekly and overall. I could not believe it! I never knew I could be so proud as I was of my time on that newspaper.
Now that I'm in college I've written a few articles for The Aviso and am majoring in integrated language arts, so I'm going to be a high school English teacher, so I will get to pass on the journalism bug to some other willing and eager student in the future and I honestly, cannot wait for that opportunity.
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