Jake Funk – Damascus HS RB

Kyle McFadden is a graduate from Linganore High School’s class of 2014 and is a sports enthusiast. He got his start as a sports writer in January 2014 for Linganore High School’s student newspaper The Lance where he wrote 13 articles. McFadden then launched his own blog at the end of the summer in 2014 called “The Beltway Dispatch” covering local professional, collegiate and high school sports bringing in over 10,500 lifetime views. He brings plenty of sports knowledge to the Maryland Sports Access crew as he has baseball, basketball and golf experience. McFadden covers a wide variety of sports in football, baseball, basketball, golf, hockey, lacrosse, soccer and specializes in the collegiate and high school level’s. Although he has only been around journalism since January 2014, his work has appeared in a local newspaper Hometown Observer three times, he’s won two Frederick News-Post Mike Powell Exellence in Journalism awards and has appeared on The Best of SNO which showcases top student work of high school and college journalists. He also holds positions at The Frederick News-Post as a freelance writer, the DMVelite.com as the western DMV basketball writer and MocoFootball.com as a Frederick, Carroll and Washington County football analyst. McFadden plans to study at Frederick Community College this fall and then transfer to the University of Maryland and work on a bachelor’s degree in journalism as he has aspirations to be an ESPN journalist or writer for Sports Illustrated.