By Scott Stump - Senior Editor
E-mail: stump@digitalsports.com
Attention, coaches, administrators and parents: Do you want to
nominate a senior student-athlete from the winter season who has
excelled in the classroom, on the athletic field and in the community
while overcoming adversity for the $1,000 DigitalSports "Applause''
Scholarship? Click here for more.
From the moment she started working with DigitalSports, Freehold Township senior Emily Nassi was a great asset to our coverage of Shore Conference swimming and has shown substantial promise.
She took the initiative to contact us in an effort to help put more of a spotlight on the swimming community, and since then has collaborated with our staff to produce work that stands up to anything a full-time employee could have provided at designated championship swim meets. That helped earn Nassi a $1,000 DigitalSports Media Award, which is presented to a senior student based on
the timeliness, originality and accuracy of reporting and content contribution
on their school’s DigitalSports website. Nassi, who was also a swimmer for Freehold Township, will be attending the University of Delaware in the fall.
Emily's work is thorough and precise, she was helpful in pointing out story leads and potential interview subjects, and she immediately was able to assist our staff on the ins and outs of the swimming scene.
She showed she was willing to go the extra mile to do a thorough job by giving event-by-event breakdowns of championship meets, and provided stories with quotes from the winners at meets in which she was actually participating as a swimmer herself. That showed the ability to focus on multiple tasks at a sprawling event, and it also showed her ability to organize her time to still compete and yet also get the necessary interviews for a story on the event.
In just a short time working with her, our staff saw all of the qualities in Emily that we would look for in any prospective employee, and they are qualities I also would think any school would be searching for as well – hard-working, disciplined, eager to learn and improve, pleasant to interact with, thorough and talented.
Click the links below to check out examples of Emily's great coverage:
BOYS AND GIRLS SWIMMING: MEET OF CHAMPIONS PREVIEW
DIGITALSPORTS GIRLS SWIMMING ALL-STAR TEAM
GSW - OCEAN COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS
BOYS SWIMMING: SHORE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS PREVIEW
