Since the last Time Out with the Editor, there’s been some roster changes on the Chronicle’s staff. Because of that, I’m subbing for Emily Zadny as the sports editor for the rest of the year.
Some of you might know me, some of you might not, but allow me to introduce myself. My name is Hannah Bevis, and I’m a senior at NCC. I ran cross-country and track for two years before stepping away from collegiate sports in the middle of my sophomore year. It wasn’t that I still didn’t love to run — I did. But I felt myself being pulled in a new direction. Instead of being the one on the track competing, I wanted to be the one up in the press box writing about it.
That started me down a crazy path in sports writing. I currently write and edit for two different sports websites, work for the athletic department here at NCC and recently got a Richter grant that sent me to New York, Boston and Toronto to do research on women’s professional hockey and their marketing strategies. It’s been a whirlwind, but it all started because I took a chance and made a decision that ended up changing the rest of my college path.
It’s officially 2016 and time for the best/worst part of a new year — making resolutions. It’s easy to say that THIS will be the year you finally start going to the gym every week, or run a marathon, or start cutting back on the chocolate (never going to happen). I want to challenge you to challenge yourself in 2016 — whether it’s getting your GPA up, setting a new PR or chasing down your dreams, no matter how wild they seem.
It won’t be easy, but there are ways to hold yourself accountable. Write your goals down, tell a friend, find a buddy to encourage you. It can happen.
You can make it happen.
