IU Athletics Welcomes Andy Graham
5/25/2017 10:50:00 AM | General
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Andy Graham, having long harbored a desire to serve his alma mater before concluding his lengthy career in journalism, feels both pleased and privileged to join Indiana Athletics' media relations department as a writer.
Graham, who recently retired from the Bloomington Herald-Times after 35 years covering sports and news, will write features for IU Athletics when the 2017-18 academic and athletic year commences in August. He will also mentor the department's student writers.
A 1978 IU graduate in honors history, Graham has won many national and state awards for his writing. He was the 1997 Corky Lamm Indiana Sportswriter of the Year honor and, more recently, was named the state's top sports columnist in 2012 by the Hoosier State Press Association and the nation's top sports columnist for the H-T's circulation class in 2013 by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
Graham was a 2013 inductee to the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
He worked alongside legendary sports editor Bob Hammel at the H-T, covering virtually every IU football and basketball game for 15 years, before becoming the primary beat writer for Indiana football. He also covered IU soccer for 19 years, including Coach Jerry Yeagley's first five NCAA championship clubs. He worked the 1987 and 1992 NCAA men's basketball Final Fours and the 2000 NBA Finals.
Graham also served as the primary writer for Indiana high school basketball throughout his H-T sports tenure. He relished perusing papers from around the state to write a weekly statewide-oriented high school basketball column for many years and annually selected the H-T's Top 15 All-State Basketball Team, picked with solicited input from the state's coaches and therefore one of the most respected lists pertaining to Indiana players.
After a nine-year hiatus on the news side to keep more regular hours while his sons were growing up, Graham returned to the H-T sports department in 2010 and was serving as columnist for Indiana football coverage and primary beat writer for high school hoops when he opted to take an early-retirement package from the company in April.
Graham resides in Bloomington with wife Susie, a fellow IU '78 alumnus, and sons Alex, who graduated from IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs this spring, and Evan, who plans to attend IU next year.
Graham, who recently retired from the Bloomington Herald-Times after 35 years covering sports and news, will write features for IU Athletics when the 2017-18 academic and athletic year commences in August. He will also mentor the department's student writers.
A 1978 IU graduate in honors history, Graham has won many national and state awards for his writing. He was the 1997 Corky Lamm Indiana Sportswriter of the Year honor and, more recently, was named the state's top sports columnist in 2012 by the Hoosier State Press Association and the nation's top sports columnist for the H-T's circulation class in 2013 by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
Graham was a 2013 inductee to the Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
He worked alongside legendary sports editor Bob Hammel at the H-T, covering virtually every IU football and basketball game for 15 years, before becoming the primary beat writer for Indiana football. He also covered IU soccer for 19 years, including Coach Jerry Yeagley's first five NCAA championship clubs. He worked the 1987 and 1992 NCAA men's basketball Final Fours and the 2000 NBA Finals.
Graham also served as the primary writer for Indiana high school basketball throughout his H-T sports tenure. He relished perusing papers from around the state to write a weekly statewide-oriented high school basketball column for many years and annually selected the H-T's Top 15 All-State Basketball Team, picked with solicited input from the state's coaches and therefore one of the most respected lists pertaining to Indiana players.
After a nine-year hiatus on the news side to keep more regular hours while his sons were growing up, Graham returned to the H-T sports department in 2010 and was serving as columnist for Indiana football coverage and primary beat writer for high school hoops when he opted to take an early-retirement package from the company in April.
Graham resides in Bloomington with wife Susie, a fellow IU '78 alumnus, and sons Alex, who graduated from IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs this spring, and Evan, who plans to attend IU next year.
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