2008 Woodie Awards
Adam Miller: Tennis and Track and Field
Adam Miller, Collegian Staff
Issue date: 5/13/08 Section: Sports
When I originally chose to go to UMass, I wasn't sure if I would continue writing sports, which occupied most of my life in high school. I pretty much decided that I would stick with the newspaper until it wasn't fun anymore, which ended up being a smart decision.
It was a very fun year with a staff full of great people and opportunities that I would never have my freshman year if I wrote at a Big 10 school (including a baseball game and the Atlantic 10 women's lacrosse semi-final game).
I remember hearing at the first sports meeting that there is a lot of turnover so if I stuck with the paper, I'd move up quickly. That was definitely the case this year. However, I have to thank a few people who gave me a positive experience at the Collegian this year and made me better as a writer.
Jeremy - At the beginning I was pretty overwhelmed at how much you edited my article and amazed at how well you knew AP style and could find so many different ways to say something.
I definitely feel like you really made my writing flow better, although I learned the most from you just by going to the meetings. You always mentioned what you didn't like in everyone's writing and what you said at those meetings stuck with me.
I couldn't explain how happy I was when you read my feature and moved your hand off the mouse, and it stayed off the entire second page.
Earlier this year, I said I wanted to have a correction-free article. That may not have happened, but I'm still happy with those 500 or so words in the track feature that went untouched. That feature gave me a lot of confidence in my writing.
Eli - You are the first and only person I know who was born outside the state of Illinois and is a White Sox fan. Even a south-snider would laugh that you support Chicago's second team but you're pretty cool anyway.
I hope you realize that once this year is over, you're not allowed to make fun of me and Brinch for being freshmen. You know more about sports stats than any other person I know, which definitely makes the podcasts pretty interesting even though you repeat everything you say in the news room.
It was a very fun year with a staff full of great people and opportunities that I would never have my freshman year if I wrote at a Big 10 school (including a baseball game and the Atlantic 10 women's lacrosse semi-final game).
I remember hearing at the first sports meeting that there is a lot of turnover so if I stuck with the paper, I'd move up quickly. That was definitely the case this year. However, I have to thank a few people who gave me a positive experience at the Collegian this year and made me better as a writer.
Jeremy - At the beginning I was pretty overwhelmed at how much you edited my article and amazed at how well you knew AP style and could find so many different ways to say something.
I definitely feel like you really made my writing flow better, although I learned the most from you just by going to the meetings. You always mentioned what you didn't like in everyone's writing and what you said at those meetings stuck with me.
I couldn't explain how happy I was when you read my feature and moved your hand off the mouse, and it stayed off the entire second page.
Earlier this year, I said I wanted to have a correction-free article. That may not have happened, but I'm still happy with those 500 or so words in the track feature that went untouched. That feature gave me a lot of confidence in my writing.
Eli - You are the first and only person I know who was born outside the state of Illinois and is a White Sox fan. Even a south-snider would laugh that you support Chicago's second team but you're pretty cool anyway.
I hope you realize that once this year is over, you're not allowed to make fun of me and Brinch for being freshmen. You know more about sports stats than any other person I know, which definitely makes the podcasts pretty interesting even though you repeat everything you say in the news room.
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