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 2008 gridiron campaign.

Gholston previously served as a sports reporter and assistant sports editor for the Big Rapids Pioneer prior to his appointment at FSU last fall. A native of Detroit, Mich., Gholston has covered Ferris State athletics for over 12 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 co-head coach of the Reed City (Mich.) eighth grade boys' basketball team 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 Athletics homepage at www.ferris.edu/sports.

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