| LeMont
Calloway |
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| Florida
A & M University |
It is a simple saying with
a twist that has stuck in the mind of LeMont Calloway:
“Where there is a will, there is a Calloway.”
Those words, spoken by his father when Calloway
was 11, have been with him for the last 10 years.
The lesson was taught when he was ready to give
up as a budding basketball player disappointed with
his team’s losses.
Since then, Calloway has applied those words to
his life and his ambition of becoming a journalist.
The Chicago native said he came from a family of
sports fanatics. His love for writing and sports
came together in his goal of becoming a sports reporter.
“There is always something going on in sports
and there is always someone who wants to talk about
sports,” he said.
After playing high school basketball, Calloway picked
up a pen and notepad and started writing about sports,
sparking his journalism career as a sports editor
for his high school newspaper, The Evanstonian.
Calloway became assistant sports editor for Florida
A&M University’s newspaper, The Famuan,
his sophomore year. Now a senior at the college,
he has risen to deputy sports editor.
Of his experience in the New York Times Student
Journalism Institute, Calloway said, “I like
the idea of bumping shoulders with those who have
the same ambition that I do.”
After the institute, he will intern on the city
desk at the Tuscaloosa News in Alabama and then
at the Tallahassee Democrat in the fall.
Ultimately, Calloway wants to become an NBA beat
reporter.
SHEENA JOHNSON
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