The guest speaker for our next meeting will be Luke DeCock, Sports Columnist for the News and Observer. DeCock has been with the News and Observer since 2000, serving as a beat reporter for the Carolina Hurricanes and the NHL until 2008, at which time he became a columnist. He has earned multiple awards for sports columns, feature writing and coverage from the North Carolina Press Association, and multiple awards for game stories and news stories from the Professional Hockey Writers Association. DeCock has also been in the national top-10 for sports columns and feature writing by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
Prior to joining the News & Observer, DeCock was the Colorado College hockey beat writer, General-assignment sports writer, and sports copy editor/page designer for The Gazette newspaper in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He also served as a General-assignment sports writer for the Appeal-Democrat newspaper in Yuba City, California, where he won first place for sports stories by the California Newspaper Publishers Association in 1996, and his story “A Matter of Heart” was listed in The Best American Sports Writing in 1997.
DeCock is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mark Your Calendar
3/2/16 – Special Guest Speaker
3/16/16 – Dave Odom, NCAA Basketball Expert
4/6/16 – Special Guest Speaker