A Year in the Making

It’s new, it’s different and it’s infinitely better.
I’m talking about the latest and greatest incarnation of the Linfield Athletics Web site.
What makes the site better?
There is more color, thanks to the focus on color photography and new Flash slideshow technologies.
There’s moving pictures, in the form of video clips that will spotlight coach and player interviews, [...]

Summer’s Slipping Away

Though we are still in the middle of the summer doldrums – from any Linfield sports fan’s point of view at least – the sports information office has been working steadily behind the scenes in July and August gearing up for another great sports year.
The initial competitions of the fall are Sept. 1 when the [...]

Back to Work

Just returned from a three-week hiatus from the office that included a week in San Antonio at the annual College Sports Information Directors convention.
At the CoSIDA convention, Twitter was the big buzzword and consensus was that soon most colleges and universities would no longer be printing traditional media guides. Instead, sports information offices will migrating [...]

Remembering Erik Anderson

How fitting it is that Linfield track and field coach Dr. Garry Killgore has decided to rename the Linfield Icebreaker meet to the “Linfield Erik Anderson Icebreaker” in honor of the man who was killed last week while at work at the Community Colleges of Spokane.
Erik was a phenomenal athlete and a remarkable person. I [...]

Keeping Score

Could a basketball game be played if no working scoreboard were present?
The decisions players make on the floor, such as when to shoot, what kind of shot to take, and how many fouls they have left to ‘give’ are often predicated on the information the scoreboard displays.
At a couple of recent home basketball games, problems [...]

Shifting Gears

We’re at one of those times during the sports year that can be especially difficult for the sports information director to navigate: The crossover period from one season to the next, in this case the transition from fall to winter.
While soccer, volleyball and golf are concluded for the fall, and football and cross country are [...]

Wildcat or Mildcat?

This gem is sent to us from Austin, Texas, home of Gomez the Cat.
Gomez is yet another member of Linfield’s amazing subway alumni fan base.
Gomez and his owner, Chris Peck, a 2005 Linfield graduate, follows the Wildcats from the capital city of the Lone Star State.
Since Chris brought his wife to Linfield for a visit [...]

From the eMailbag

Hi Kelly……
I enjoy reading your game summary and overall coverage of the Linfield football games every Sunday morning on my computer here at home. There are some games I am unable to attend and the coverage they give in the newspapers, particularly The Oregonian, is nothing more than a short blurb anymore. One [...]

Time Flies When You’re Working Hard

Where does the time go? Why don’t I ever seem to have enough of it?
Since the fall sports athletes reported to campus on Aug. 21, it’s been one big wind sprint getting things operational. Morning, nights, weekends – anytime I could find an extra 15 minutes to work on Linfield athletics I did.
Rosters had to [...]

Winds of Change

And now, for something completely different: A fundamental change in the way the Linfield athletics department markets its people and programs.
With support of the college’s director of athletics, coaching staff, director of enrollment services and college webmaster, the time has come to modernize the means of communicating the good news about Linfield athletics.
We are moving [...]