Marc's resume

Marc Lancaster

Work Experience

Sportswriter, Cincinnati Post, March 2002-Present.

Features, takeouts and general assignment reporter. Beat responsibility for University of Cincinnati football and professional tennis. Also serve as backup on Reds beat.

Associate Producer, College Sports, CNNSI.com, June 2000-March 2002.

Primary responsbility for college basketball and tennis sections of the site, while backing up the college football producer as well. Duties include editing wire and original copy, coordinating with freelancers, daily story selection for the site, writing copy and project planning.

Sportswriter, Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald, Aug. 1996-June 2000.

Primary beat responsibility for University of Georgia football, women's basketball and tennis. Other coverage included UGA baseball, gymnastics, soccer, softball and volleyball, plus occasional prep stories, periodic columns, copy editing and layout. During my time on staff, we earned four consecutive APSE Top 10 Sunday section honors.

Various positions, The Red and Black, Mar. 1995-Aug. 1996.

Moved up from sports stringer to sports staff writer to sports editor to managing editor of UGA's student newspaper. The Red and Black is a broadsheet with 16,000 circulation published Monday-Friday during the school year, and weekly with a circulation of 8,000 during the summer. Editing duties included supervision of up to 25 staffers and planning daily coverage and design.

Reporter/Associate Producer, Hotline Sports with Gerald Riggs & Jerry Gross, Sept. 1994-Aug. 1995.

Lined up interview guests and handled incoming phone calls as an unpaid intern for sports talk show, which aired on WQXI-AM in Atlanta. Also provided some coverage of UGA men's and women's basketball and Georgia Tech football and men's basketball.

Education/Personal

Graduated in June, 1997, from the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with an A.B.J. degree in newspapers and a minor in political science. Previously attended The George Washington University and DeKalb College. Graduated from Dobson High School in Mesa, Ariz. Born in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., also lived in Holt and East Grand Rapids, Mich.

Other Highlights

Have done freelance work for CNNSI.com, USA TODAY online, Sports Illustrated, Soccer America magazine, the Albuquerque Journal, the Louisville Courier-Journal, The Clarion-Ledger, the Chattanooga Times, Host Communications, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Utah Jazz Homecourt magazine.

Member of nationwide voting panel for AP women's basketball poll, 1998, 1999 and 2000 seasons.

Taught a sportswriting class during the Summer 2000 Georgia Journalism Academy, a weeklong program for high school students on the University of Georgia campus.

Proficient with Quark Xpress, Word, WordPerfect, and other applications, and a constant Internet user.

Honors and Awards

Won three awards in the 2000 Georgia Sports Writers Association competition, for work published in 1999, including best columnist in our division for the second year in a row. Also took second place with C. Trent Rosecrans in best college news story, and tied for second in best individual column for "Superfan Arnold will bark no more".

Placed third in sports writing category, largest classification, in the Georgia Press Association contest for 2000.

Earned APSE Top 10 honors in our classification for a game story ("Unbelievable!") in 1998.

Won seven awards in 1999 GSWA competition (covering work published in 1998), including first-place honors in the best columnist, college feature story and college news story categories. Took second place in individual column, college news story, college event story and high school feature story categories.

Won sweepstakes award for best overall story of 1997 in our division in 1998 GSWA contest ("A successful courtship")

References

Frank Carini

Cincinnati Post, Sports Editor

W: (513) 352-2705

[email protected]

Brad Zimanek

Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Sports Editor

W: (706) 208-2239

[email protected]

Steve Quintana

MySanAntonio.com, Content Manager