Welcome to “Attending to know Pounding the Rock’s writers”! Through the All-Star break, we thought it we be enjoyable to get to know a little bit bit extra about our writers right here at PtR.
A bit about myself
In my household tree, creativity simply appears to search out you. We’ve got painters, guide and inside designers, musicians, photographers, and, after all, writers. Rising up, my least favourite class was all the time English. I couldn’t deliver myself to learn the books assigned, however I used to be artistic sufficient to determine methods to finish assignments properly sufficient to get respectable grades. I went to magnet faculties for center and highschool that had been centered on pc programming, engineering, rocketry, and different STEM-type topics, and ended up doing my freshman yr at Baylor College as a mechanical engineering main.
However like I mentioned, creativity discovered me. It got here as a Christmas current from my older brother, Cody, who had purchased me the not too long ago launched Invoice Simmons guide, The E book of Basketball. I learn it cowl to cowl, the primary guide I had accomplished that with since my fourth-grade trainer did a read-along to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 10 years earlier. It opened my eyes to the truth that skilled writing may very well be extra conversational and extra enjoyable. I modified majors the following semester, ended up with a communications diploma from Arizona State (shoutout to Starbucks for full tuition reimbursement to their on-line program), and located myself writing professionally for a residing as a social media supervisor.
How I turned a Spurs fan
Like many born and raised in San Antonio, turning into a San Antonio Spurs fan was principally decided lengthy earlier than I took my first breath on Earth. Each of my mother and father moved to city after they had been younger as a result of each of my granddads ended up being stationed right here, they usually’ve been right here ever since. In reality, they each ended up in the identical neck of the woods, graduating from Roosevelt Excessive College just a few years aside (similar college my siblings and I’d graduate from a long time later). I’ve by no means really had the dialog about what they did with my older brother and I that made us such large basketball followers, however I think about the image above performs some a part of it.
How I ended up at Pounding the Rock
This all comes right down to a tweet coming throughout my timeline and me being assured sufficient to answer it. 200 years in the past, all the way in which again in 2020, the NBA season didn’t begin till late December. To gear up for that yr, Pounding the Rock was in search of some individuals to assist with dwell tweeting video games and promote the articles everyone knows and love. I had a yr and a half of social media administration and figured, “I’d most likely be an honest match,” so I left a reply. Lower than 4 hours later, I acquired a DM asking for some details about myself and ended up being introduced on. As I wrote in my reply to the aforementioned tweet, it’s an honor attending to be part of this excellent group of writers and Spurs followers.
Extra bios:
Marilyn Dubinski
Bruno Passos
Mark Barrington
August Bembel
JeJe Gomez
Tanner Bowen
Devon Birdsong
Invoice Huan
Gary Quan
