Spencer Mathews
Before the spring semester of the 2018-19 school year, I had thought many times about joining the Western Herald to potentially see what I could do to contribute to the sports section.
I was coasting along with my schoolwork while writing for a couple different online sports websites and I had planned on continuing down that road. Living 35 minutes off campus, that was just too big of a logistical challenge to commit myself to anything that occurred on campus outside of my classes, especially with the other jobs I held in my hometown.
But things changed during that semester after a conversation I had in my News Writing and Reporting class with former editor-in-chief of the Herald (sports editor at the time), and now a good friend of mine and MLive reporter, Samuel Robinson.