1. Kevin Anthony Connell
kevinconnell21@gmail.com
(540) 454-4717
Current Address: Permanent Address:
120 15th Street East, Apt. 5302 15426 Berlin Turnpike
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 Purcellville, VA 20132
EXPERIENCE:
Alabama Beat Writer, Tide 99.1 WDGM-FM (Townsquare Media), Tuscaloosa, AL; August 2014 - present
 Covers University of Alabama athletics with a focus on football
 Generates ideas and completes five or more stories weekly, including on gamedays
 Helps maintain all of the station’s social media accounts, and creates and uploads exclusive video content
Staff Reporter, The Crimson White (University of Alabama student newspaper), Tuscaloosa, AL; September
2012 - August 2014
 Wrote two to three Alabama football stories weekly, including for Gameday, the paper’s weekly football
preview magazine
 Served as the Alabama baseball beat writer for 2013 and 2014 seasons
 Provided coverage of several other UA sports, including basketball, golf, tennis, swimming, track and field
Intern, The Tuscaloosa News/TideSports.com, Tuscaloosa, AL; January 2014 - May 2014
 Served as the Alabama women’s basketball beat writer for 2013-14 season
 Provided coverage of several other UA sports, including basketball, golf, tennis, swimming, track and field
Stringer, The Tuscaloosa News/TuscPreps.com, Tuscaloosa, AL; August 2013 - December 2013, August 2014 -
October 2014
 Covered weekly high school football games in the Tuscaloosa, Alabama area
Freelancer, Loudoun Times-Mirror, Leesburg, VA; May 2014 - August 2014
 Covered high school sports across Loudoun County, VA, including VHSL state championship games
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE:
 Contributed to major football head trauma report for Sports Illustrated
 Published on ThePostGame.com and apsportseditors.org
 Helping advise “Except It Be Given,” a book by former Alabama player Wayne Davis
 Beginning work with SI Contributors Network in January 2015
EDUCATION:
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; August 2012 - present
Major 1: Journalism (expected graduation: December 2015)
Major 2: Communication Studies (expected graduation: May 2016)
Overall GPA: 3.564 Journalism GPA: 3.931 Communication Studies GPA: 3.777
SKILLS:
Expert: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, YouTube, WordPress, Microsoft Word
Knowledgeable: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Notepad++, SharePoint Designer, Windows Movie Maker,
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook
REFERENCES:
 Ben George, digital managing editor at Townsquare Media: benjamin.george@townsquaremedia.com
 Lars Anderson, UA journalism instructor and former SI senior writer: larswriting@gmail.com
 Tommy Deas, executive sports editor at Tuscaloosa News: tommy.deas@tuscaloosanews.com