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    Erin Bruehl

    JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE

    The Journal News, White Plains, NY
    High school sports reporter September 2005-present
    * Report on high school sports games, write feature stories on local athletes and coaches and write weekly notebooks about my beat
    * Have been the swimming and softball beat writer and but have also covered other sports including football, basketball, volleyball and soccer.
    * Also covered some college basketball and college hockey

    TimesLedger Newspapers, Queens, NY
    Freelance sports writer February 2005 - September 2005
    * Covering high school sports, including basketball, baseball, softball and soccer for 16 weekly papers in Queens
    * Writing features on high school sports

    am New York, New York, NY
    Freelance sports writer June 2004 - present
    * Writing features on New York sports from adult leagues to professional teams, including the New York Mets for this daily newspaper with a 275,000 circulation, covering the five boroughs and a few surrounding counties

    Newsday, Kew Gardens, NY
    Sports Intern in Queens office September -- December 2004
    * Covered high school sports, including football and basketball
    * Wrote features on high school sports and athletes, including volleyball and basketball
    * Wrote game highlights

    Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
    New Media Intern May 2004 -- August 2004
    * Worked for MSGNetwork.com, the web site of Madison Square Garden
    * Created pages of players' statistics for the site, wrote game recaps for team homepages, edited multimedia files, put AP wire stories on site, created pages of original sports content, edited and uploaded photos

    Downtown Express, New York, NY
    News intern November 2003 -- January 2004
    * Reported and wrote news stories and features for this weekly paper covering Lower Manhattan

    EDUCATION

    New York University New York, NY 8/03-12/04
    * Master of Arts in Journalism, December 2004
    * Participant in Portfolio program: an exclusive program of only 17 students within the Journalism department to which students apply separately and write stories in a subject area of their choosing

    College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA 8/99-5/02
    * Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, May 2002
    * Overall GPA: 3.60; Major GPA: 3.66
    * Graduated Cum Laude
    * Election to Psi Chi -- national honor society for outstanding undergraduate psychology majors
    * Election to National Society of Collegiate Scholars - national honors organization for students who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship, leadership, and service

    State University of New York at Geneseo Geneseo, NY 8/98-5/99
    * Freshman year GPA: 3.77

    ACTIVITIES

    Holy Cross Alumni Club of New York City
    Events Coordinator April 2003 -- present
    * Plan and organize receptions, including those for the president of Holy Cross and annual club parties

    Intercollegiate Athletics
    * Coxswain on women's varsity crew team both junior and senior year

    SKILLS

    Computer: Lexis-Nexis, Proquest, Microsoft Office, basic knowledge of HTML, Adobe Photoshop, experience uploading Multimedia files, Web site editing, Windows 98/00/XP

    Languages: some knowledge of Spanish