High school preps writer Steve Wiseman answers your questions. Steve covered the Gamecocks for three years. Prior to joining The State, Steve was an NFL beat writer for five years, covering the Carolina Panthers for the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg and the New Orleans Saints for The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. Steve also covered high school sports in the Upstate and Winthrop basketball earlier in his career. Among the writing awards Steve has won is the Mississippi Press Association's sports news story of the year in 2001.
Akilah Nelson covers high schools sports. The New Jersey native began sports writing at the Daily Tar Heel in Chapel Hill, N.C., and was a high school football correspondent for The (Durham, N.C.) Herald-Sun. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 2003, she covered the WNBA and minor league baseball as an intern at The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J. She was an education reporter at the Public Opinion in Chambersburg, Pa., for 18 months before joining The State's sports staff.