Will is an award winning sportswriter and sports editor of The Daily Journal / Messenger and as part of his duties he covers Clemson University Athletics. He has been in the newspaper business for 12 years and has worked as a sportswriter and editor for newspapers in both Georgia and South Carolina. He has won several awards in sports writing, layout design, special sections and photography.
Outside of his job he has a few hobbies, like playing basketball and tennis. He's happily married to his wife of 15 years, Cindy, and is affiliated with The Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. Will is also a current voter in the Associated Press men's basketball poll, his second stint in that capacity.

Recent Stories

• Tigers try to stay focused on winning at Wake
  Saturday, March 7, 2009
  Clemson coach Oliver Purnell has his early Sunday afternoon already planned out. He will be in his Winston-Salem area hotel watching the Virginia Tech at Florida State game, which starts four hours before his 18th-ranked Tigers take to the floor against No. 10 Wake Forest.
  
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• 5 questions as Clemson heads into spring workouts
  Saturday, March 7, 2009
  For the first time in more than 10 years, there will be more questions than answers heading into Clemson’s spring football practice, which is set to begin Monday afternoon behind the Jervey Athletic Complex.
  
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• Bidding everyone a fond farewell
  Saturday, March 7, 2009
  It was about this time five years ago I was sitting on my couch in Newberry when I got an unexpected phone call around nine o’clock at night.
  
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• Clemson's Steele sticking with what works
  Friday, March 6, 2009
  The way Kevin Steele sees it, spring practice, which will begin Monday for Clemson, will be a period in which he wants to maintain the level of success he has inherited. | Read more

• Dabo's goal is to get Tigers to believe
  Friday, March 6, 2009
  Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney learned one valuable lesson on his trip to Austin, Texas earlier this week – there is no place like home. | Read more

• Tigers need Parker's bat to wake up
  Friday, March 6, 2009
  When Kyle Parker started the baseball season, he knocked in a couple of runs and had two hits in his first two at-bats. | Read more

• Tigers in position for bye, but still need help
  Thursday, March 5, 2009
  Clemson forward K.C. Rivers just wants to know what he and the No. 18 Clemson Tigers have to do in order to earn a first-round bye in next week’s ACC Tournament. | Read more

• Clemson finally gets bats going
  Thursday, March 5, 2009
  The 19th-ranked Clemson Tigers were in need of anything to end the slump their batters had been in through the first six games of the season. UNC Asheville was obviously the remedy. | Read more

• Clemson women take on Yellow Jackets in ACC Tournament
  Thursday, March 5, 2009
  A capsule look at the Tigers' game against Georgia Tech today in Greensboro, N.C. | Read more

• Rivers goes out on top as Tigers rout Virginia
  Wednesday, March 4, 2009
  It wasn’t quite the senior night Clemson’s K.C. Rivers envisioned, but given the outcome of Tuesday night’s game against Virginia, he will take it. | Read more