LETTER: Sports coverage needs diversity

To the editor:

As a frequent reader of your newspaper, who pays special attention to the sports section, I have noticed that some sports are vastly overrepresented in comparison to some others, which are never even mentioned.
   
I realize that we are very proud of our football, basketball, volleyball, and soccer teams and as a fellow dedicated Aggie, they are just as important to me as they are to the next Aggie, but my loyalty also rests with the USU Equestrian Team. As a member of the Equestrian team I read every issue of your paper looking for an article covering our achievements and the dedication we have for working with the horses in order to best represent Utah State University across the country, but so far I wasn?t able to find a single one. I have been contemplating to bring this fact to your attention for quite some time, but so far I haven’t done so. This year, however, I serve as the captain on the team and I feel that it is my responsibility to get the team the amount of public attention it deserves.
   
Just this last weekend our team won one champion and two reserve champion titles and one individual champion title, but our event wasn’t even mentioned in the Statesman.
   
I believe as an unbiased news source, sponsored by the University, it should be your mission to give every school-sponsored team the same amount of attention. Representing one shouldn’t keep you from representing another.
   
We would very much appreciate it, if you could adjust your reporting in order to do justice to more of your school’s clubs and organizations and I would love to meet with one of your reporters to talk about what we do.

Sandra Mueller