If a player is going to be featured in the Hall of Fame, it would be nice to see her face
Editor’s note: I first published this blog post on my Posterous
Katie Meier's picture at the Duke Hall of Fame. Notice how you can't see her face.
blog on Nov. 23, 2009. However, I thought this would work well over here.
I went to my first Duke men’s basketball game on Saturday. After the game, I walked around the Duke Hall of Fame, and checked out all photos, plaques, banners and trophies of the former Duke sports stars. One banner stuck out to me, and not in a good way.
Duke, why did you use this picture on the banner honoring All-American Katie Meier? You can’t see her face! Seriously, did anyone think about this in the production process? None of the newspapers I’ve worked for would run this picture unless it was the only picture from that game, and they certainly wouldn’t run the photo if it went with a story about her basketball career. You can’t tell me in all the years Katie played for Duke there wasn’t at least one picture where you could see her face. Even if there wasn’t another action shot, run her team picture because at least I could see her face. If Katie Meier had been standing right next to me when I was looking at her banner, I would have had no clue because I didn’t know what she looked liked.
Side note: Katie Meier is now the head coach of University of Miami women’s basketball team. You can a nice picture of her bio page: http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/meier_katie00.html.
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