VALDOSTA — Prince Robinson Jr. Won first place in Valdosta State University’s 2019 Jim Murray Sports Writing Contest. He will now pass on to compete with top collegiate journalists from throughout you. S. For a chance to win one among five $5,000 countrywide scholarships.
The Jim Murray Sports Writing Contest is funded by the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation, installed in 1999 through Linda McCoy-Murray to perpetuate Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Jim Murray through a countrywide essay competition for collegiate journalism students. The candidates must write down a tale in Murray’s fashion, which is remembered for its humor, hyperbole, and one-liners.
Robinson’s prevailing article specializes in Cayden Cochran, former Blazer Nation quarterback who led VSU football to its 1/3 NCAA Division II National Championship title in 2012.
“Cochran grew up in Cashion, Oklahoma, and remains one of the most profound athletes ever to grace the metropolis,” Robinson shared. “He continued numerous accidents, role modifications, and setbacks before, in the end, coming to VSU ….
“I selected this topic because here is this athlete who had been instructed that he couldn’t be a beginning quarterback at the University of Oklahoma, his childhood dream faculty. He received there and became changed to a huge receiver after weeks — after he had performed as quarterback nearly his whole life.
“Cochran knew he was meant to be a sign caller, so VSU allowed him that opportunity. It became one of the most satisfactory decisions in VSU soccer history …. He is now a VSU Athletic Hall of Fame member alongside his teammates from that championship year.”
Robinson serves as sports activities editor for The Spectator, VSU’s unbiased scholar-run newspaper, and holds a Multimedia Basics Certificate and an Editing Certificate from the Poynter Institute. He is a -time recipient of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation’s Otis A. Brumby II Scholarship. He was recently elected vice president of the Georgia College Press Association after serving as a junior board member. He completed an internship at the Chapel Hill News and Views all through the summer of 2017 and planned to intern with the Marietta Daily Journal this summer.
Robinson expects to graduate in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts in English focused on journalism. He desires to run as a sports beat author for a newspaper and hopes to, in the long run, end up a sports columnist later in his profession. He is the son of Prince Robinson Sr. And Keyona Robinson of Douglasville, Georgia.
