![]() ![]() "In this industry, it can be very competitive sometimes," Gallagher said. People are drawn to that."Īnd Newberry was drawn to people, whether it was the subjects she covered or the fellow journalists she encountered in the field. If you hadn't met her before, it didn't take much to connect. "The kids knew it and they felt at ease as well. "Her back-and-forth (with the athletes) was kind-hearted," Johnson said. When you were done listening to it, you were informed and had a better perception of who that athlete was." She didn't put a lot of pressure on them. "A lot of them were with college and high school athletes. ![]() ![]() "Listening to her podcasts, she never put people in an uncomfortable position," Campbell said. But one of The Sports Report's more popular features were those annual podcasts, which Newberry published every Wednesday. Its mission was "to provide personal, in-depth, and timely coverage of local sports in the Blue Water Area through daily score updates, written stories, and weekly podcast episodes."Īs the site's lone reporter, she handled everything from writing stories and taking photographs to compiling final scores and updating conference standings. 1, 2022, Newberry launched her own website, The Sports Report. "And with the student-athletes, especially, which I think she took from her experience as a student-athlete herself. "You could tell that she was very much in tune to the community," Johnson said. From October 2020 to July 2022, she was a sportswriter for Blue Water Healthy Living, an online magazine based in Port Huron. Newberry continued her track career at Hillsdale College, where she received her degree in sports management and journalism in 2021. And she was symbolic of what I wanted our team to be - somebody that played with great passion and sportsmanship." "She was a girl that I think every girl at Cros-Lex wanted to be. "I didn't coach Calli, but I'd seen her play a lot of basketball," Campbell said. ![]() I could talk to her about anything and she was always so supportive of me. "She was not just my sister, she was a friend to me. "It's tough to put into words how much she meant to me," said Jake Townsend, Newberry's younger brother. The oldest of three children, she graduated from Croswell-Lexington High School in 2017 and was part of the track, cross country and girls basketball teams. She asked how everything was going in your life. Sometimes, (our conversations) weren't even about sports. "Any time we were covering the same game, it was so nice being able to catch up with her. "She was the nicest person you could ever meet," said Mike Gallagher, the sports editor at the Sanilac County News. You could tell she was passionate about it and it came through in her personality and the way that she wrote." "She was in tune to every sport that she covered - and the kids that she covered. "Calli was just genuine," Almont girls basketball and softball coach Erik Johnson said. I'm 46 years old and she was half my age, but I looked up to her because she was always joyful. "There's not many people like that anymore in the world. "She was full of life, full of passion and full of positivity," Cros-Lex boys basketball coach Lance Campbell said. Newberry, a passionate local sports reporter and Croswell native, died Tuesday as a result of injuries suffered in a car crash Monday. When Calli Newberry was 16 years old, she knew that she wanted to be a sports journalist.īut what she couldn't have known back then were the stories she'd tell, the places she'd go or all the people whose lives she'd touch. ![]()
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