The UNC women’s basketball beat has been exciting to cover this semester because of the success the team had.
I was fortunate enough to write a day-in-the-life story with head coach Jaime White a few weeks prior to the Big Sky tournament and write a feature on one of the team’s leaders, senior Kaisha Brown.
Both were enjoyable in their own way.
I had never done a day-in-the-life story before, so it was a nice deviation from the path for me. The feature of Brown was also something I really enjoyed because a lot of people have a lot of good to say about her, making it a really easy story to write, and she has a great story to tell, so it all worked out well.
What made both articles even better was that I got to add information about the team’s success this season, reaching 20 wins for the third time ever and making it to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament after losing in the Big Sky Conference Championship game.
I would have liked to improve on my day-in-the-life technique, because, despite there being a lot to tell, in my mind, it came out a little dry. It was fun to experience, but I was unsure of how fun it would be to read.
The hard part about both of these stories was having so many great details or quotes and not being able to use them all. As a journalist, you can never have too many quotes, but it’s unfortunate when you have too many good ones and you have to pick and choose which ones work the best.
Those are both minor complaints, though, as I’ve still very much enjoyed covering this beat.
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