Smith Academy students interview ACC coaches
I spent this morning sitting across from four Academy at Smith students huddled around the secretary's phone at their school waiting for their chance to interview an ACC coach. Their English teacher, Stephen Hoyt, arranged for the students to take part in a teleconference for journalists wishing to catch up with the coaches before tournament play begins Thursday.
So sophomores Josh Chavis, Selena Irby, Clyde Sellers and Rodericka Moore vied for time with the coaches against veteran journalists from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Durham Herald-Sun the Spartanburg Herald-Journal and ACC Nation.
My high school journalism teacher never arranged anything that cool!
Listen to the student interviews (they were limited to one question per coach, although Chavis got in two with Wake Forest's Mike Petersen) and the students talking later about the experience.
Listen to the entire teleconference at theacc.com (as of about 1 p.m. I hadn't seen it posted).
The students said they'll likely have to write an essay about their brief stint as a journalist.
