About The Author: Sandy Gholston
Sandy Gholston, an award-winning reporter and current
interim director of news services 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 and videos from the workouts as the Bulldogs
prepare for the 2011 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 "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.