Wayne drehs biography
Wayne Drehs is a....
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Wayne Drehs, a University of Iowa alumnus and journalist for ESPN.com, still remembers his first attempt at a feature story.
“We had an English teacher at my high school that would always complain in class about how nobody would write for the school newspaper,” Drehs says.
“To prove a point, I signed up.”
Drehs enjoyed sports, so he took his first assignment covering the sophomore football team at Addison Trail High School in Illinois.
Wayne A. Drehs II, 00BA, is an Emmy Award-winning journalist for , a leader in multimedia storytelling, and one of America's best young sports writers.
He conducted his first interviews, crafted his first story, and proudly submitted the piece to the English teacher who was begging for content.
The editing process didn’t go as expected.
“My teacher absolutely destroyed the story,” Drehs says.
“He ripped it to shreds. He then showed my story to the entire class and essentially said, ‘this is how not to do journalism.’
“That lit a fire under me.”
The journalistic fire has sparked Drehs to the pinnacle of the sports journalism world.
The Addison, Ill., native is in his 13th year