It's a big weekend for USF volleyball, with its final home Big East matches against Louisville and Cincinnati, and that it a good time for a feature in Friday's Times on redshirt freshman middle blocker Caitlyn Breen, who has stepped in as a starter this fall and helped the Bulls to a 13-6 record.
Breen's father, Matt, is working in Afghanistan on a private military contract to help train the Afghani border patrol, but being 8,000 miles from home hasn't kept him from following his daughter's matches online. Thanks to online technology like Skype and Oovoo, the Breen family can keep in touch with Matt much better than when he first started working overseas a decade ago.
The credit for this story has to go to Maile Keeney in USF's sports information department, who wrote a great story that appeared in the Bulls football game program for the West Virginia game last week. Thanks again to Keeney and to the Breen family for their help with the story.
Times sportswriter Greg Auman, who covers USF, will post news and thoughts on the Bulletin and we invite your participation in the comments area.
GA
Who originated the story...you or Maile? If Maile, then it only seems reasonable that some type of props to her should have appeared in the Times.
Just sayin'
Posted by: ImaBulliever | November 07, 2009 at 09:55 AM
The photos in the Times were correctly credited to J Meric, who took the action shot of Caitlyn, and to Lisa Breen, who supplied the family photo of Caitlyn and her Dad. The only quotes that were in both stories were excerpts taken directly from the chat.
Maile was a huge help in the story and did a great job with the feature in the football game program, but it's not really a standard convention to pass along thanks in a newspaper story. I'm glad the blog allows me to do that.
Posted by: G.A. | November 07, 2009 at 09:32 AM
GA
Why no credit to Keeney/USF SID in the article that appeared in the Times?
Same pix as program, some of the same quotes, I'd say the end of article should have given same credit to the Keeney/USF as you did here....but then, I'm not a trained journalist.
Posted by: ImaBulliever | November 07, 2009 at 09:20 AM
+1 for GA!
Posted by: Reality | November 07, 2009 at 08:56 AM
Yeah, only 15 football posts since USF's last game. Such a drought ...
Posted by: G.A. | November 06, 2009 at 09:18 PM
Pretty obvious USF football is in a bye week this week...
Posted by: Taurean | November 06, 2009 at 06:33 PM
Woo Hoo for Maile!!
Posted by: Miles | November 06, 2009 at 12:14 PM
GA, Great article. As a Dad who just had his daughter head off to college seven hours away, on an athletic scholarship as well, that article hit home. SKYPE is a wonderful thing!
On a side note, prayers go out to all the Ft. Hood famalies, just tragic.
Posted by: USFShep | November 06, 2009 at 12:01 PM