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Article Example 1: Titans still eyeing playoffs after loss Bryce Parry
Friday night saw the first loss for the University Titans varsity football team. The 24-20 defeat at the hands of the Lake Brantley Patriots also gave the Titans a district loss, putting them in a tighter spot for playoff hopes. Another district loss could mean disaster for the team in a district where two losses might have them on the outside of the playoffs looking in come November. The Lake Brantley game put them in this situation. “We’re upset as team over a loss in a close game,” said junior offensive lineman Jonathan Sandomenico, “it was a tough loss but we’ll see them again (in the playoffs).” The loss also has the Orange and White taking things a little slower now. After expecting a win against the Patriots, the Titans are now looking at each game more individually. The team has a more “week-to-week” approach to the rest of the season now, according to Sandomenico. However, a lot is staying the same for the team, such as the play calling and game plan. “We want to stick to the same, stick to what we know can beat other teams,” Sandomenico said. Expect the Titans to continue to use their running backs to be the primary offense for the rest of the season, with limited passing plays from sophomore quarterback Cody Braden. The team’s expectations are staying the same as well; a run for the state championship. “(The) expectations are not lowered (following the loss to Lake Brantley). This a team still expecting a state (championship) run,” said junior receiver Ryan Kenis. The district loss on their record does mean that the team needs to focus on each district team, added Sandomenico. “Four more district games, no losses,” he said. The Titans will face Lyman, Oviedo, Lake Mary and Winter Springs in those games. The remainder of the UHS football season looks to be promising, with the Titans having already played the best team in the district in Lake Brantley and beaten the second best team in Sanford Seminole. The Titans are in a good spot to be a contender come the playoffs. The offensive talent in the backfield paired with the strong play of a defense that hasn’t allowed a team more than a four-point lead all season, makes the Titans a threat to any opponent. The team is taking each game week-by-week, but come the end of the season, it expects to be in the playoffs.
Article Example 1: Self Analysis In this article, I began with a lead that identified what happended, where and when it happened, and what is the result of this thing happening. This provides immediate insight as to what the focus of the article will be about. I structred it with an information then quote then more information structure. The quotes I used were helpful as they provided an emotional insight to how the team was affected; this would have been difficult to do if I had been using only my own paragraphs and still staying objective and factual. As the article presents the basic information, I began to address the future and how the tem was planning ahead, this gave more information and followed it up with more quotes to add emotion, insght, and help validate what I was saying as true. I also added to the article by writing a “look-ahead� which was helpful because it addressed any further questions the reader might have had about the possibilities the team was facing in the following weeks.
Article Example 2: Spring Training brings new season Bryce Parry
Sunny skies, tee shirts, hot dogs and baseball. It sounds like the perfect day in July but for Major League Baseball’s 30 teams, it comes a little bit sooner in the year; in February in fact. Pitchers and catchers first reported to their squad’s spring training starting Feb. 18, and the position players arrived starting Feb. 22. Each team begins their season with these early workouts in either Arizona or Florida, two states that don’t seem to know the definition of winter. By late February and early March, both of these states reach temperatures that some states won’t get close to until the Fourth of July; and MLB teams take advantage of the fair weather with spring training. Spring training is a yearly occurrence for each team and consists of preliminary workouts, batting practice and pitching all culminating to a mini-season where clubs play not-so-competitive games against each other. “Spring is one of my favorite seasons, just because it means baseball is almost here,” junior Tyler Thompson said. It is mostly for minor league talent getting a chance to prove their worth on a big league roster or the teams’ All-Stars getting a few innings to sharpen their skills before opening day that Spring Training exists. Half of the 30 teams in MLB come to Florida for their spring training, and going to a game is often a favorite experience for fans of teams they might not normally get to see in the regular season. “It’s a lot of fun to attend the games,” junior Sam Munsey said. “It’s nice to experience the baseball atmosphere again after a long off season.” However, the experience is not quite the same as the regular season. “If you’re expecting to watch your team’s ace pitch all nine innings or Yoenis Cespedes hit for the cycle, spring training probably isn’t for you,” Thompson said. This is because spring is a time for growth in baseball. Teams give playing time to players trying to make it in the majors for the first time, and definitely do not play their star players the whole time in a game that at the end of the day does not affect the regular season at all. However, spring training is still baseball and it is a great way for fans to enjoy America’s pastime once again.
Article Example 2: Self Analysis In this article about Major League Baseball’s spring training, I took more of a features approach and wrote about what spring training is and how it helps the team. I felt that this was efective as some of the readers did not know what Spring Training’s purpose was. I structured the article as more of a narrative, begining with some contextulaization about the timing of Spring Training and the overall schedule of it. Then I tranistioned into what Spring Training is, and how if benefits both players, and fans. The quotes give insight into how spring training is helpful, and I also used them to cast spring training in a positive light and atmosphere while remaining objective in my own writing. I felt that the lead was one of my more creative ones as it is more of a narrative lead and not a who, what, when, where, why, how one like is typical in my writing. The quotes added information to the story that wouldn’t have been able to add quite as effectively because of their subjective viewpoints. At the time of publication the story had newsworthiness as it was the beginning of Spring Training for MLB.
Article Example 3: Regional Track Meet Bryce Parry Late April is known for hot temperatures in Florida, but it is also known for fast times. As April winds down, the competition only winds up for track athletes across the state as regional meets are conducted determining who gets the honor to advance to the state meet on the blue track at IMG Academy. University High School sent seven athletes to the 4A Region 1 meet: senior Anothny Vinciguerra, senior Jake Reilly, junior Jordan Fletcher, and sophomore Lorenzo Lingard made up the first 4X400 meter squad to advance past districts since the Titans captured third at the state meet in 2013. Individual athletes included senior Hannah Palelis in the 100m hurdles and 300m hurdles, senior Sarah Boerboom in the discus, and Lingard in the 110m hurdles. “You want in (the regional meet),” coach Lisa Eggert said. “The key is looking at the competition and what’s the best path to regionals. We use it (relays) as a vehicle to get a few talented kids there.” That was the story of the 4X400 who captured 4th place at the 4A District 2 meet and the last spot to the 4A Region 1 meet. But the region isn’t called the Region of Death for nothing. The competition was fierce with some of the state leaders competing on the track at Lake Minneola High School. The boy’s 4X400 ran a few seconds off their season best and finished 15 out of 16. Palelis placed 8th in the finals of the 100m hurdles in a time of 15.68 seconds and scored a point for the girls and she placed 9th in the 300m hurdles. Boerboom threw a few feet under her personal record but was good enough for regional runner up with a throw of 111-08 feet. Boerboom was the only girl to advance to the state meet. Lingard came to run and he did it fast. He ran a season best 13.94 in prelims and a 13.98 in the finals of the 110m hurdles on his way to a regional championship in the event. His prelims time is currently the sate leading time in Class 4A. As the two Titans prepare for the state meet, Coach Eggert has made no changes in their practice schedules. “(We’re) staying in our normal plan, normal build up, staying in routine,” Eggert said. “Comfortable and confidant.” Lingard heads into the state meet a serious contender for a state championship and appears to be the man to beat. Boerboom is also in a good position to score and place in the state finals. “You never know (how it will play out) because they’re in events that are unpredictable,” Eggert said. “It never turns out like it does on paper.”
Article Example 3: Self Analysis
This aticle was one of my favorites because I got to write about track and field. This article was also a little different for me becasue I presented it with more of a narrative style. The lead was more of a narrative and not a hard-fact lead. Also the results and information I presented began with how the athletes got to the meet, and then I presented the results of the meet. After that I focused on the next meet (the state meet) and the chances the athletes that moved on how. Also, I enjoyed the article becasue the interview with Coach Eggert provided the article with some insght into the proccess and how things were going with the athletes that I wouldn’t have been able to include if I had relied soley on the results of the meet and the athletes’ times. All of the athletes were represented and had their results. However, the athletes that moved on got more attention. I wish I had included more athlete perspectives, from both the state bound athletes and the ones that had just barely gotten into the regional meet.
For years I had lived with a passive mindset that if something were meant to happen it would. I did not go out of my way to accomplish things; I let them be and went with the flow. However, I suffered disappointment. I had goals (I don’t even know if they can be called goals since I did nothing to achieve them) that never materialized, expectations that never became reality. I was beat, in competition, in study, in some way I was beat in every aspect of my life. I had relinquished any chance that I could achieve my dreams and aspirations, because if I were really meant to have them then they would have come to me. I had given up. My freshman year of high school, after getting cut from the baseball team, I went out for track. I was just trying to get faster, but Coach Eggert saw something that I had never seen. During the workouts, I would run with the lead group like any nieve freshman, but when the number of repetitions grew, I continued to run with them. She saw the potential for a distance runner; so I trained with the distance squad all year, and in my last race I set the school record for fastest mile by a freshman. So naturally I was excited for my first cross country season and held high expectations for the fall. But my summer was plagued by injuries and they continued into the season. I had expected to be one of the best runners of the team, I had told myself I wanted to go to the state meet. But when the season ended I was injured, not running, and definitely not where I expected to be. That track season I wanted to advance past the district meet and make it to states, and I had a pretty successful first half of the season, winning a few medals, but then I got injured again. By no I had assumed that my dreams of making it to states was not meant to be, and all my injuries were the universe telling me that. I entered my junior season just wanting to run, but with no high aspirations, as a result I had lack-luster times in both cross country and track season, and I was even more convinced that I was not meant to be a state caliber runner. But that was the fault in my mindset: “mean to be.� I had placed the outcomes of my dreams in hands that were not mine, hands that were never there. In other words, I was wasting my time.
I realized that if I want something, there is no higher force that will decide whether I deserve it or not. There are no predetermined outcomes. No. The only person that has control over what I accomplish is myself. So I took up a more aggressive mindset. No longer do I think that something is meant to be. If I want something to happen, I work for it. If I want to be a better athlete, I go out and run every day, because there’s no mystical force that decides how fast I run. No that force is very real and it is called hard work, and its magic potion is sweat. And if I want an opportunity to present itself to me, I set up the circumstances myself, I do not leave it to chance. I have realized that to not take accountability for my circumstances is to not care about them at all. Chance is not something that is kind to some; it is something that is kind to none. The successes that some people have have been earned in some way or another. They made those things happen to themselves. I now live with that mindset that I must grip the reigns of my life and decide what I want to accomplish; because anything is a possibility with enough work. Obviously some things are easier than others and some might require intense dedication and focus, and there will be failures. But those failures are only tests, tests to see how bad someone wants something. When a failure occurs one either quits, showing they never had true dedication, or they continue on, continue to strive for their goals.