• Your General Topic

• • Baseball transition from Christmas break to Spring season

• Additional potential angles.

• • How players plan to train during a global pandemic

• How would you explain the story in ONE sentence?

• • Training over Christmas break for baseball players is vital in maintaining a healthy and successful spring season

• What are the unanswered questions you hope to explore?

• • How does each player train without the university’s facilities?
  • What is important to them to focus on to be in their best shape for the season?
  • How do they plan to use what they learned in fall workouts for winter break?
  • Is it difficult to stay in baseball shape when the weather is not good to be outside over winter break?

• What’s the best medium for the story?

• • Video

• If it’s video: what’s the potential for scenes and dynamic action you can take our viewers through?

• • Showing the workouts done in the indoor
  • Player speaking to camera while other players workout behind them
  • Walking through/outside of facility talking about their work done over winter break

• Interactive/Social Media: How will you get the audience involved to interact with the story?

• • By clicking on the video wherever it is posted to
  • Possible commenting on the video to give their personal opinion
  • Liking the video and sharing it

• In each story, who are the characters, and are they accessible?

• • Baseball players/ very accessible because I am on the team
  • Coaches/ very accessible because I am on the team
  • Indoor facility/ very accessible because I train inside

• Where do you need to go to tell the story?

• • The indoor facility on campus
  • Possibly Larks Park

• What’s the potential impact of the reporting?

• • Gives inside look at what baseball players do in the offseason
  • More recognition for the baseball team
  • Shows off the hard work athletes put in to perfect their craft

• Has anyone else done this reporting regionally or nationally? How will ours differ from that?

• • Yes here are some examples:
    • https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2254876-what-do-mlb-players-really-do-during-the-long-offseason-months
    • https://baseballtoolbox.org/texas-am-off-season-workout/
      • The bleacher report story talks about what MLB players do in their offseason. The second story is simply examples of workouts to do during the offseason to prepare for the spring. My story would differ from these because it is a video medium, focuses more on what one or two people will do, and gives a different perspective from division 1 and professional baseball players and how they spend their offseason.

• REQUIRED: At least three news stories on this topic or a related topic that helps show what has been done on the story in the past.

https://www.stack.com/a/winter-baseball-workou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lCO3qM0bQ

this is a good example of the action shots/what practice looks like

https://www.ncaa.com/live-updates/ncaa/ncaa-sports-news-schedule-changes-coronavirus-updates-all-sports