A Snowboarder Profile

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently wrote a profile on snowboarder Nate Giska for my JMC 410 class, Advanced News and Feature Writing. I had a lot of fun writing this story, I love to learn new things about snowboarding and meet cool people. 

Nate is such an impressive guy, the hardest part about writing this story was trying to fit in everything he's done into a tight space. Through talking to Nate and researching I learned a lot about him. Nate was born in Indiana and learned to snowboard there in a small man made snow park. He developed his own line of snowboarding gear and other active wear when he was only 16. He moved to Colorado to attend the University of Northern Colorado and to be closer to real mountains. When he got here though, he was disappointed by the lack of snowboarding involvement, so he started Northern Colorado Riders, which is now one of the most active clubs on campus. A junior Business Management major, Nate is putting his education to work even before graduating and opening up Blacklist Boardshop, a skate/snowboard shop right here in Greeley, CO. 

I learned a lot about writing and rewriting from doing this assignment. I found that what I write the first time around is good, but is likely to change before I'm finished. I also learned that while I may write an interesting story, I definitely need to work on my preparation and review some AP style. I think that what I learned in writing this profile will be helpful in future stories and assignments, and I'm grateful to have met Nate.