Hampton School boasts a thriving sporting community, and the award-winning Hampton Sports Chronicle has the enviable task of reporting on this. HSC prides itself on being entirely student-produced and focussing solely on Hampton’s sport.
It’s fair to say HSC’s first year online was pretty successful – we published 141 posts (that’s 62,387 words) and picked up 12,235 views in 2019. We were able to report on Hampton’s historic ESFA Cup victory within minutes of the final whistle, providing instant coverage of one of the school’s greatest moments.
But in an equally gratifying fashion, we covered the breadth of Hampton sport in similar amounts of detail. For example, we posted as many articles about the U15D football team as we did about the First XI cricketers. We wouldn’t be doing Hampton’s sport justice if we didn’t.
As Jules Delay (editor 2011) eloquently put in his article on work experience in a previous edition of the HSC:
“Experience sports journalism for yourself. It may spark an interest that you will never forget.”