As the regular season begins with promise and teams anticipate their games with excitement, the athletic department has been full of energy all week.
As sports editor for The DePauw, I walk through the halls of the second floor of Lilly with frequency, stopping in to talk with any coaches I can find to learn how their teams are looking.
I hear stories every day of success and development, of impressing players and coaches excited to take to the field and to the court with new opponents in the NCAC.
I am constantly hearing new ideas for stories.
I want to tell all of them.
As I enter my sixth semester of writing for the sports section of this paper, I am excited to foster a new relationship with WGRE sports to provide more comprehensive coverage of Tiger athletics by combining resources.
This will allow the writers of The DePauw to share stories with WGRE and vice versa, allowing for more in-depth stories and better profiles on our athletes.
As WGRE continues to broadcast games for many of DePauw's teams, I want to drive the staff of The DePauw to provide the same sort of coverage, similar to newspapers in the professional world.
This season, we will try and report on games when they happen. Instead of waiting for Tuesday to publish articles on games that happened Friday or Saturday of the previous week, we will work to post game recaps for home games as soon as the final whistle is blown.
The goals of The DePauw's sports section have been, for as long as I have been here, to write post-game reports to tell our readers if the teams won or lost.
This is not how the professional world works, and we are going to try and move away from our outdated model.
As we move away from that model, it would free up space for more in-depth sports articles.
More profiles can be written and fill up the pages of the sports section so readers can get to know the team on a personal level.
I know many of the coaches and players of DePauw athletics.
I think they are all genuinely good people, and I hope that our campus can learn about them as well.
This sports staff is young and full of excitement.
They are enthusiastic to learn about the teams at this school.
We will be striving to produce the best content and experiment with same-day reporting, something that The DePauw has not regularly done before.
As great as our sports teams are, we will try and be the same.
— Appelgate is a junior from Kent, Wash. majoring in communications. He is the sports and multimedia editor of The DePauw. sports@thedepauw.com