Colby Sims was born in raised in Arkansas. It\nwas only by chance that he ended up in Javelina Nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sims is now the newly appointed Sports Editor\nof the award-winning print\nand online newspaper, The South\nTexan<\/em>. Sims was approached by The South Texan adviser, Nicole Morris, for\nthe position after she saw great potential in Sims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cColby was a student in several of my\njournalism courses, so I was able to see first-hand his skills and talents,\u201d\nMorris said. \u201cWhen the Sports Editor position became open, he was a logical\nchoice for the position, so I recommended him to our editor. Luckily for us, Colby\naccepted the position.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sims is excited to dive into this new role as\nthe semester kicks off. At first, he was hesitant of the offer but soon\nrealized it would be beneficial and fun to take a chance working at the\nuniversity newspaper. Most of The South Texan staff knew Sims by casual\nencounters in classes, or as a familiar face attending an event, but a lucky\nfew knew Sims from his job in the athletic department as a sports information\nstudent worker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe is genuine, kind and polite to everyone.\nHe has a great head on his shoulders and works very hard and is smart. He\u2019s a\ngreat guy who will do great things in the future,\u201d Ashley Gonzalez, a veteran\nsports reporter, said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sims graduates in May but hopes that during\nthis semester he masters and strengthens his journalism and communication\nskills. He wants to become well-rounded in the media field and expand his\nhorizons beyond athletics and intramural events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI want to expand my vocab because you need\ngood vocab to be an editor. And I want to learn about different [events and\nactivities] not just stuff that will be on the sports page,\u201d Sims said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sims became interested in the position in late\nDecember, and just recently met and re-acquainted himself with the members of\nthe university newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think of The South Texan staff members as\ngood friends, they\u2019re like my family. Of course it is saddening to see a fellow\nmember leave the newspaper, but it’s always nice to see fresh new faces in the\nmix. I think Colby will make an excellent addition to our South Texan family.\nI\u2019m sure he will do great and excel beyond measure as our sports editor,\u201d Darcy\nRamirez, Editor-in-Chief of The South Texan, said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colby Sims was born in raised in Arkansas. It was only by chance that he ended up in Javelina Nation. Sims is now the newly… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[150],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":150,"user_id":20,"is_guest":0,"slug":"staff-reports","display_name":"Staff Reports","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/0437b672851a8a9f7b27b17b33805122.jpg?ver=1778634720","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}