Sports Journalism Grads Land Full-time Jobs

            We’re happy to report that Tara Allaire and Logan Clow, members of the Sports Journalism class of 2012, have landed full-time reporting jobs.

            Tara began working in May as a reporter at Thunder Bay Television, near her hometown of Red Rock, Ont. She had completed her one-month SPJN internship at Thunder Bay TV in April.

            Tara is a former competitive runner who attended Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina, before completing her Bachelor of Arts degree at Lakehead University.

            Logan Clow, of Brockville, Ont., is heading soon to Fairview, Alberta, to begin his job June 18 as a multi-media journalist with Sun Media. His primary duties will be to report for the local weekly newspaper, the Fairview Post.

Logan did his SPJN internship at CKWS TV in Kingston and is a 2011 graduate of Loyalist’s Radio Broadcasting program.

Logan Clow Chosen as Sports Journalism Faculty Award Winner

Logan Clow, of Brockville, Ont., received the G.P. Hunt Faculty Award as the outstanding Sports Journalism student in the class of 2012 at Loyalist College’s convocation ceremony on June 8.

            Logan was a 2011 graduate of Loyalist’s Radio Broadcasting program and was named to the Dean’s List in both 2011 and 2012.

            The G.P. Hunt Award is given annually to the graduating student selected by the Sports Journalism faculty who best exemplifies professionalism, leadership and academic achievement.

Sports Journalism Class of 2012

Back Row: Jaden Snoddon, John Langdon and Ryan Dickison
Front Row: Shawn McLeish and Logan Clow

Congratulations to all members of the Sports Journalism class of 2012 who received their post-grad SPJN certificates at the 45^th convocation ceremony at Loyalist College on Friday, June 8.

            Members of the class of 2012 are: David Alexander, Tara Allaire, Anthony Bumbaco, Logan Clow, Ryan Dickison, John Langdon, Shawn McLeish, Jaden Snoddon and Matt Taylor.

            Mike Wobschall also received his SPJN certificate on Friday. Mike is the first Loyalist student to undertake the combined Journalism: Online, Print and Broadcast (JOPB) and post-grad Sports Journalism program. The dual-credit program of study enabled Mike to earn his SPJN certificate while completing his third year in the JOPB advanced diploma program.  

            The class of 2012 is the fourth cohort to graduate from the SPJN program which began in 2008-09.

McLeish Tackles CanadaFootballChat.Com

Loyalist College Sports Journalism student Shawn McLeish is doing his internship with CanadaFootballChat.Com.  McLeish is posting articles on a regular basis to the online football website.  Here's the link to his first article:
GRANVILLE EASTMAN: A Coach's Journey South

Farewell Class of 2012

The post graduate Sports Journalism Class of 2012 has finished their work at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario and is off to spend the next month on their internships.  Students are required to arrange their own internship.  They have all been successful in finding a place to polish the skills they've learned in the past 24 weeks of the Sports Journalism program.
It has been a pleasure working with our student journalists and we are looking forward to hearing positive things about the futures in their chosen careers.
Now we prepare for the class of 2013 that will be arriving on the doorstep of the college in September.

Successful season ends at Seneca for Lady Lancers

Lancer guard/forward Diane Bauder
drives to the net around a defending
Seneca player in the second half.

by Shawn McLeish

The Loyalist Lancers women’s basketball team began the season with a singular goal:  To make it to the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA) championships.  In order to achieve that goal, they had to beat the Niagara Knights in a playoff game at the Lancer Dome.

Through three quarters, the Lancers prospects looked bleak.  They were down 40-34 and had yet to even have a lead in the game.  Enter Dianne Bouder.  Bouder, a fifth-year forward, was playing her final game at Loyalist.  The Lancers teams she had played on the past two seasons won a combined five games.  She had never been to the OCAA’s before and wasn’t about to let her final chance slip away.

The Lancers began to chip away at the Niagara lead until they were within two.  Bouder, a Cannifton native, coolly received a pass from point guard Martine Gauvin and drained her second consecutive three-pointer to give the Lancers their first lead of the game.  Less than five minutes remained and Loyalist never relinquished that lead.  Bouder and second-year guard Haley Sisler led the team with 12 points each.  Center Samantha Goff added an astounding 16 rebounds in the win.

Putting their Thoughts into Words

Loyalist College post graduate Sports Journalism students aren't afraid to express their opinions on the top sports stories of the day.  On this edition of Behind the Play:

Lancers Basketball
The NHL trade deadline
The NBA all star weekend
Ryan Braun's 50 game suspension overturned

 Behind the Play - Feb 24-12 by 91X