About The Author: Sandy Gholston
Sandy Gholston, an award-winning reporter and a current
marketing specialist within FSU's University Advancement and
Marketing Division, will keep fans up-to-date throughout the spring
season with periodic blogs, features and recaps of scrimmages in
his "Bulldog Spring Ball Blog". He'll also correspond with photos
from the workouts as the Bulldogs prepare for the 2010 gridiron
campaign.
Gholston is the current author of two popular blogs focusing on
FSU Athletics called the "Bulldog Athletics Blog", which is
available at www.ferrisstateathleticsblog.blogspot.com, along with
the recently-launched "Crimson & Gold Report" available on
MLive (http://blog.mlive.com/crimson_and_gold_report/index.html).
Previously, he served as a sports reporter for the Big Rapids
Pioneer. A native of Detroit, Mich., Gholston has covered
Ferris State athletics for more than 14 years. He started covering
Bulldog athletic events as an undergraduate student at FSU in 1996,
working as a sports reporter for the campus' student newspaper,
The Torch.
Gholston began his career in May 1997 with The Pioneer.
In that time, he won several awards for his coverage of FSU
Athletics including a first-place Associated Press Award
for "Sustained Coverage of a Single Sports Event" in his reporting
on the tragic death of a Ferris State Football student-athlete in
the fall of 2002. In addition, he also received the 2003 Great
Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Media Service
Award and the 2002 United States Tennis Association's Fred Burns
Journalism Award for his coverage of Ferris State Athletics along
with being a finalist for the 2004-05 American Volleyball Coaches
Association (AVCA) Grant Burger Media Award after being chosen as
the national recipient in the print journalism category.
Gholston has also been active in the community, serving as a
basketball coach at Reed City along with officiating at Ferris
State summer basketball camps.
Gholston's "Bulldog Spring Ball Blog" will be available for fans to read by clicking the banner icon located on the FSU Football homepage at the link below: http://www.ferrisstatebulldogs.com/sports/fball/index.