Contacts and Story Ideas

Contacts

Ryan Ressa
Head Men's Golf Coach
Office: (562) 985-4390
Cell: (310) 824-3376
Fax: (562) 985-8197
E-mail: rressa@csulb.edu

Andy Sythe
Head Track and Field/Cross Country Coach
Phone: (562) 618-1020
E-mail: andysythe@csulb.edu

Patrick Cunniff
Assistant Track and Field/Cross Country Coach (Distances)
Phone: (562) 985-2318
E-mail: pcunniff@csulb.edu

Cameron Fujimoto
Media Relations Assistant (Golf, Cross Country)
Phone: (562) 985-2054
E-mail: cfujimot@csulb.edu


Story Ideas

1. Reports and Reviews of Golf and Cross Country Tournaments:  Golf and cross country are the only active men's sports this fall other than water polo, which is being covered by Kyusung Gong because it is his Daily 49er beat.  Although most of the events are outside of Long Beach, I can still find results online and contact coaches and players for interviews when they return.

2. Preview of Men's Basketball:  Basketball and baseball are Long Beach State's biggest sports, and even though basketball is a winter sport, I can still gather enough information to do a preview story later in the semester.

3. Long Beach State Football:  This is the story I'm currently working on: will Long Beach State ever get its football team back? NCAA football is so huge that it is given the same amount of attention as the NFL.  Many CSULB students want a football team here, and the debate over whether we should have one or not has some interesting points.

4. Feature Stories: I can always take aside a star player or at least a player with an interesting story and feature them in an article.  The person I have in mind right now is Kevin Roy, a senior on the golf team from Syracuse, NY.