Kevin Daniel Robbins 195 Hartung Cove Buda, Texas 78610 (512) 750-2835 [email protected] @kdrobbins @reportingsport

Career history

2012-present Senior lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas) Courses: Longform feature writing, sports reporting (beginning, intermediate and advanced) at the School of Journalism in the Moody College of Communication

2011-2012 Adjunct instructor, St. Edward’s University (Austin, Texas) Courses: Media ethics

2010-2011 Adjunct instructor, Austin Community College (Austin, Texas) Courses: News writing, introduction to mass communication

2000-2012 Staff feature writer, sports writer, Sunday sports columnist and golf blogger Austin American-Statesman and Statesman.com (Austin, Texas) Selected subjects: A profile of vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney, reported from Texas and Wyoming (2001); a historical profile of a French-American family nearly eliminated by the Galveston hurricane of 1900, reported from Galveston and Austin (2001); deadline stories from the BCS Rose Bowl game (2004) in Pasadena, Calif.; deadline stories from the BCS national-championship game (2005, 2009) in Pasadena, Calif.; deadline stories from the BCS Fiesta Bowl game in Glendale, Ariz. (2009); player features from the NCAA Final Four (2003) in New Orleans; daily game stories and takeouts from the U.S. Open Championship in Oakmont, Pa., and PGA Championship in Tulsa, Okla. (2007); a lengthy profile of future NBA player Kevin Durant reported from Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. (2007); a national-award-winning deadline story from the last baseball game played by Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros (2007); stories from PGA Tour tournaments in Fort Worth, Dallas and San Antonio (2002-present); regular seasonal coverage of University of Texas football, basketball, baseball, golf and other sports (2002-present); and daily maintenance of “Backspin,” the golf blog of my creation (2006-2012), and its Facebook platform, “Backspin! with Kevin Robbins.”

1999-2000 Staff metro reporter St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Mo.) Selected subjects: Daily features from the Super Bowl in Atlanta (1999), weeklong coverage of the shootings at Columbine High School from Littleton, Colo. (1999).

1995-1999 Staff metro reporter (Memphis, Tenn.) Selected subjects: General-assignment stories and projects in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi; daily and enterprise coverage of the shootings at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark. (1998), including a lengthy profile of one of the victims and her family.

1994-1995 Teaching assistant, Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) Course: News writing

1990-1994 Staff regional reporter The Hawk Eye (Burlington, ) Selected subjects: Education; agriculture; the Mississippi River flood of 1993; first-person coverage of RAGBRAI, the annual cross-state bicycle ride in Iowa (1991, 1992 and 1993).

1988-1990 Staff reporter Olathe Daily News (Olathe, Kan.) Selected subjects: Education and a brief experience with foreign correspondence, reporting from England and Wales with a group of high-school singers from Olathe High School.

1988-1990 Freelance writer Kansas City Magazine, The Kansas City Pitch and The Kansas City View

(Other freelance work has appeared in Sports on Earth (sportsonearth.com), Travel + Leisure Golf, Golf Journal and Austin Golf.)

Education

Dual degrees: B.S. journalism, B.S. psychology (1988) The University of Central Missouri (Warrensburg, Mo.)

M.S. Journalism (1995) The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism Ohio University (Athens, Ohio)

Internships

The Scripps-Howard graduate journalism internship (May-August 1994) Scripps-Howard News Bureau, Washington D.C.

Selected honors and citations

First place, game story, Associated Press Sports Editors national journalism awards, for stories from Craig Biggio’s final game as a Houston Astro (2007) and Dallas high-school junior Jordan Spieth’s experience playing in the Byron Nelson Championship, a PGA Tour golf tournament (2010); Top 10 honorable mention, explanatory reporting, for an essay about the psychology of losing streaks (2010).

First place, Texas Daily Newspaper Association Fred Hartman Sports Writing Award, metro-division portfolio (2005, 2007).

First place, Texas Associated Press Managing Editors annual journalism awards, metro division, for stories from the annual Texas-Oklahoma football game (spot sports category, 2005), the Biggio game in Houston (deadline writing category, 2007) and the early-morning hours of the 10th anniversary of the 1999 bonfire collapse at Texas A&M (feature writing category, 2009).

First place, Associated Press Sports Editors regional (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and New Mexico) journalism competition (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009).

Texas Star Breaking News Report of the Year (2010) for one of three front-page stories reported from the scene of a small-aircraft crash at the IRS building in Northwest Austin.

First place, Cox Newspapers Metro Sports Writer of the Year, portfolio (2004).

Second place; American Association of Sunday and Features Editors national journalism competition, specialty reporting category, metro division, portfolio (2009); honorable mention, American Association of Sunday and Features Editors, metro division, short feature writing category (2001).

Finalist, Headliner Awards, metro division, sports writing, portfolio (2007).

Finalist, The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists (1996).

Notables, Best American Sports Writing (2007 and 2008 editions)