AP/CD Style
What are the three main types of punctuation we can use in an article?
Period, comma, em-dash (and ellipses/question marks when appropriate)
Which format is the only acceptable type of article to use first person?
Roundtable (sometimes)
Which Cavalier was named 2025 ACC Student-Athlete of the Year?
Gretchen Walsh
List the names of the five people on the Managing Board. +25 for every FORMER MB member you can name (from any previous term).
Naima (EIC), Hailey (ME), Scarlett (EE), Leigh (OM), Will (CFO)
What percentage (roughly) of CD content comes from the Sports Desk?
39 percent
Links are extremely important to every article. Explain why/how (there could be many different answers)!
Copy needs links, we need to link recaps/other stories when appropriate, we need to link to something to substantiate a claim, etc.
List three things you can write/use in a title, but NOT the actual article
"U.Va." instead of the University, colons, your last name in bold, first name+last name with no title, "Hoos,"
List the the longest tenured head coach at UVA, and the newest head coach
Longest: George Gelnovatch (1996)
Shortest: Chris Pollard (June 2025)
What is the name of the CD podcast, and what is the name of the CD newsletter?
On Record; Notes from Newcomb
How many writers (excluding Xander and Michael are on the desk)? Name them!
- Victoria, Thomas, Sam, Stephen, Ryan, Emory, Leigh, Peter, Eleanor L, David, Margaret, Theo, Ben, Eleanor B, Mofe, Lauren, Cierra, Caroline, Casey
List five things that should be at the top of a recap
Any of: score, location, both teams listed, both teams' records and conf. records listed on second mention, takeaways, a key moment in the game, etc.
Name five things every CD Sports staffer is required to do this semester.
Attend meetings (including all-staff), publish multiple features, attend a training, come to socials, etc.
In the past 365 days, which UVA programs have represented at the Final Four (or equivalent?). Individual athletes count!
Men's golf, Field hockey, Swim, XC and Track
How many desks are there at the CD, and what are they? (newsletter and edboard do not count)
16: Sports, Life, News, AE, Copy, Opinion, Cartoon, Humor, Puzzle, Finance, Advertising, Spanish Translation, Chinese Translation, Video, Photo, Podcast
80 points: how many times have there been a sports-themed print cover since Sept. 1, 2023?
75 each: what was the theme?
175 each: which month?
November 2023 (commonwealth clash)
November 2023 (women's sports)
October 2024 (tony bennett)
How do we determine whether a player is a grad student or a fifth year?
WHATEVER THE TEAM WEBSITE SAYS!!! NOT ESPN!
Name two former CD sports staffers who went on to work in journalism (posting on twitter a lot counts, as long as they've done it for several years).
Any of Danny Neckel, Ben Tobin, Sarah Pettycord, Ben Nuckols, etc.
Name as many UVA varsity head coaches as you can.
-Whichever team names the most gets 400
-If a team can name all 20, they get 1250 extra points
Elliott, Mox, Odom, Pollard, Tiffany, DeSorbo, Pedroso, O'Leary, Lamonica, Lananna, Keusgen, Ng, Hardin, Swanson, Gelnovatch, Sargent, Scott, Garland, Allen, Wells
-What year did CD become independent from UVA, and WHY did it become independent?
1979, due to the tension with the media board, which was created after the Hereford and Farmington scandal. George Rodrigue was the CD EIC at the time!
In 2025, two CD members who are not PRIMARILY associated with Sports contributed to published articles. Name them both, and name the beats they contributed to.
Leigh (Operations Manager, now part of Sports) with Swim
Cece (News Editor) with WBB
With your team, fix this opening recap paragraph: "Virginia field hockey beat North Carolina on Sunday. For Coach Ole Keysjen's bunch, Cavalier standouts weren't sparse. Standouts included freshman Lauren Slon, midfielder Mia Abello, and junior goalkeeper Emma Giesting (who had ten saves in 30 minutes of play). The Heels, even though they were No.1, never stood a chance.
Did not list location, said "on Sunday," misspelled Keusgen, said "weren't," misspelled Sloan (and no position), need Abello's position, used parenthesis, did not list record on second mention for either team, said ten instead of 10. Said Heels instead of Tar Heels, need ranking on first mention, "No. 1" needs a space!
How many Virginia head coaches have been hired by Carla Williams throughout her tenure?
(75 points for each one you name), +250 if you get them all
Elliott (football), Mox (WBB), Odom (MBB), Pollard (baseball), Ng (rowing), Keusgen (fhockey), Wells (vb), Lamonica (wlax), Thompson (WBB, but left)
For 250 points: across ALL pro sports leagues, which organization currently has the most former Cavaliers?
+50 for every player you can name
L.A. Dodgers: Jake Gelof, Brandon Neeck, Chris Newell, Jack O'Connor, Matt Lanzendorfer (you can count Chris Taylor too, because he was on the roster earlier in this same season).
For 300: Name the 11 Literary JB Editors (for this one, excluding Blaine, puzzle, podcast and cartoon).
- The team that names the most JB Editors (including business/operations) gets + 700
- If you name all JB Editors +3000
LITERARY: Michael and Xander (sports), Cece and Ford (news), Kate and Dana (life), Blaine (ALE), Leila and Grace (AE), Farah and Wylie (opinion), Isabelle and Quinn (puzzle), Adair (humor), Evelyn (podcast), Ada (cartoon).
OPERATIONS: Aarnav (AOM), Cat and Kayla (photo), Sarah, Mariam and Noelle (design), Dailin (chinese), Madelyn (spanish), Anika, Abby and Lahari (social media), Issy and Pria (video), Ava (finance), Spence (ads), Taylor and Kyle (website), Irene (analytics), Catherine (newsletter), Finn and Clara (archives), Malaika (DEI)
(300) List the three people who wrote the most articles for Sports this summer.
+200 points for each correct guess on how many any of them wrote.
Xander (13), Ryan and Ben (7)