Category Archives: Work samples

London Olympics stories for Washington Times

I’m working on a series of Olympic features about athletes from the Washington, D.C.-area.     So far, I’ve written about McLean, Va. rowers Sam Stitt and Giuseppe Lanzone; Centreville, Va. field hockey player Claire Laubach and Germantown, Md. ping-pong … Continue reading

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Content migration, copy-refining for 4-H

Just a couple of examples of some of the work I did while executing a contract for MediaBarn at the 4-H club marketing office over a few weeks in the summer of 2010. The challenge was to migrate the content … Continue reading

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Scottie Reynolds is grinding – from Northern Virginia magazine

My feature on Scottie Reynolds, the former Herndon (Va.) High and Villanova basketball star, was in the November issue of the Northern Virginia magazine. Reynolds was one of the most challenging interview subjects I’ve ever tracked down, bouncing from a … Continue reading

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Washington Post contributions

I covered a pair of high school sports events for The Washington Post on Nov. 11 and 12, 2011. The first was a high school football playoff game between Lee and Hayfield. Lee won with a big second-half comeback. The … Continue reading

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Caroline and Katherine Coyer inspire ESPN.com piece

James Wagner of the Washington Post wrote a story last spring about Caroline and Katherine Coyer, twin basketball-playing sisters from Oakton (Va.) High School. I figured it was worth expanding upon. In the story are anecdotes from the Coyers and … Continue reading

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