Meet The News Tribune’s new high school sports reporter
After nearly five years as a sports clerk, here’s to many more with a new gig.
Tacoma, I’m Tyler Wicke: The News Tribune’s newest high school sports reporter. I’ve told your stories before, along with Tacoma Rainiers and Seattle Mariners coverage and a whole bunch more – and I couldn’t be more excited to keep going.
This is home. Born at Tacoma General Hospital in April 1999, I grew up in Lakewood, a Lakes High School graduate.
An all-around sports junkie by elementary school, first-grade Tyler remembers our Super Bowl XL loss to Pittsburgh in excruciating detail. I watched SportsCenter every morning, memorizing standings, box scores and pitching lines. My friends and I turned the back row of our middle-school math class into a First-Take-style debate show.
I developed a keen passion to write in high school (Once a Lancer, Always a Lancer!) and soon contemplated: How could I fuse these two passions together?
And so here I am. A University of Washington Tacoma graduate in 2021, I earned my bachelor’s degree in writing studies, concentrated in technical communications. I covered on-campus news and events for the school’s newspaper, The Tacoma Ledger, and briefly contributed to JBLM’s home newspaper, The Ranger, before joining The News Tribune as a sports clerk.
My first story in our newspaper covered student-athlete protests at the Capitol Building in Olympia, where football players statewide pleaded for the reactivation of high school athletics amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. I covered Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh’s historic home run at T-Mobile Park in 2022 that crashed into the Hit it Here Cafe and snapped Seattle’s 21-year postseason drought. And I’ve jumped head-first into the preps landscape with game stories, features, and everything in between.
I’m humbled and honored to tell your stories. Have a news tip or story idea? Never hesitate to reach me: twicke@thenewstribune.com.
I’m around!
This story was originally published May 13, 2024 at 5:45 AM.
