Since I learned about their existence, I’ve always looked forward to writing a senior column. 

Unfortunately, it turns out that three years of sports coverage has not given me great first-person perspective writing skills. So instead of writing a well-constructed reflection on my time at The Sun, I’ll resort to something more my speed: a meandering feature article. Here’s the first few paragraphs of How Eli Fastiff Became a Sun Senior Editor.

Having grown up reading the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Sporting Green” daily and regularly falling asleep to Giants baseball on KNBR, I arrived in Ithaca my freshman year with a strong opinion of what strong sports reporting and coverage looks like.

I wasn’t afraid to complain to my friends when I felt like The Sun wasn’t living up to those standards. By my sophomore fall, my friends told me to put up or shut up. Either write the timely recaps you complain about the absence of, or stop the whining. 

So, I joined The Sun (which at that point only involved a friend adding me to the slack) and selected my beat: women’s hockey. 

I started by writing weekly recap articles for home games, but I began adding on additional pieces that spring which included weekly previews and individual game recaps, then consistent road game recaps, feature articles and Professional Women’s Hockey........

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