Richmond Times-Dispatch sports editor Steve Trosky has been elevated to region chair of the Atlantic Coast. He moves up from region chair after Todd Adams left the Fayetteville Observer for the Orlando Sentinel.
Trosky will serve out the balance of Adams’ term and start a two-year term starting in June.
Colleen McDaniel, sports section editor of The Virginian-Pilot, was named the region’s vice chair.
Trosky is a native of East Liverpool, Ohio. He began his journalism career while a junior in high school, writing for the Vallejo (Ca.) Independent Press, a weekly newspaper, in 1983. He later worked for the Fairfield (Ca.) Daily Republic, Napa Valley Register, St. Helena Star and Eureka Times-Standard.
Trosky worked as an assistant sports editor Contra Costa Times from 2000-04 before becoming sports editor for the Lynchburg (Va.) News & Advance. He arrived at the Times-Dispatch as a deputy sports editor in 2007 and was promoted to sports editor in May, 2008.
Trosky’s sports passions are baseball and bowling and he coaches youth baseball in his spare time.
McDaniel, a native of Oregon, Wis., earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her Master’s in newspaper journalism from Syracuse University. She began her career in newspapers as an intern with the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch, eventually working there full time as assistant sports editor. She joined the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle in 1999 as assistant sports editor.
In 2001, she began working at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, taking a job on the copy desk. She was promoted to assistant sports editor a short time later. McDaniel came to the Pilot in August 2007. McDaniel is a passionate sports fan who loves trivia, the outdoors and spending time with friends and family.
