Welcome to Portland Preps

After landing my first job out of college in 2018 covering high school sports, I quickly discovered that this level of athletics is where my heart lies.

I graduated from Colorado State University in 2018 and a couple weeks later was working for the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper in Pueblo, Colorado covering prep sports.

Now seven years later, the last four spent in Oregon working for the Portland Tribune, my passion for covering high school athletics still burns bright and is something I can’t shake.

I tell everyone that prep sports to me is about something bigger than wins and losses. High school sports to me reflect a community, giving a sense of pride and purpose to a subsection of a city or an entire town.

The cliche goes that it takes a village to raise a kid, and I believe one of the many roles that village can take on is recognition of hard work and celebration of success, no matter how large or small that success may be.

I feel like it’s my duty as a writer to report on those successes and amplify them, allowing our community youth to know that their hard work is seen and appreciated, and that they are encouraged to continue it and to pursue it in all walks of life.

That’s why I’m launching my new website, Portland Preps.

Over the past four years, I feel like I’ve built strong connections around the city despite my time being divided between covering prep sports, the Portland Trail Blazers, editing and other tasks at the Portland Tribune and its large crop of sister papers.

With this website, I hope to continue building my current bonds stronger and bridging new ones to teams, programs and individuals that I haven’t had the opportunity to interact with yet.

I want this website to highlight the many success stories around the City of Portland, and also bring to light the many inequalities that still persist within the city limits and how people overcome those odds.

Prep sports can be an avenue to both of those goals.

So today, I’m officially launching Portland Preps with those aspirations at the forefront of my work. And I hope you feel that through the stories about to come your way.

To be clear: I will be focusing solely on the high schools with a Portland-proper address (sorry schools in unincorporated areas).

To be even clearer, here are the schools that I’m aiming my coverage on:

• All 9 PIL Schools
• Central Catholic
• David Douglas
• St. Mary’s Academy
• Parkrose
• De La Salle North Catholic
• Portland Adventist Academy
• Riverdale
• Columbia Christian
• Portland Christian
• Mannahouse Christian Academy

I also want to be upfront on this as well: While the website will be free for now, I do intend at some point to monetize it.

I plan on putting in my full effort for this venture, and I hope to be able to make some kind of living off of it and that you feel my work is worth paying for. I will do my best to keep costs as low as possible, but I want all readers to be aware that my goal is to someday down the line try to make this my sole occupation.

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Thank you for reading this far and I hope we have a great 2025-2026 school year!