Shannon J. Owens Biography
- Title:
- Sports columnist for the Orlando Sentinel
- Position:
- Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Should Performance-Enhancing Drugs Be Accepted in Sports?"
- Reasoning:
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“It’s hard enough to get viewers to tune to track and field, much less to watch the women unless there’s an adorable, likable American star who happens to be on the verge of rewriting record books.
Those are big shoes to fill. So big, in fact, that I sometimes sympathize with the athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs… The bar is set so incredibly high because not only do they feel the pressure to win, but they also feel the pressure to sell the sport… You have seconds to impress the world. And that chance comes for a few weeks every four years.”
“Female Athletes Strive to Escape Obscurity,” Orlando Sentinel, June 17, 2008
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Sports columnist, Orlando Sentinel
- Sports celebrity blogger, OrlandoSentinel.com
- Student writer, The Daily Texan, University of Texas at Austin
- Education:
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- BA, Communications, University of Texas at Austin, 2003
- Other:
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- Niece of world champion track and field athlete Jesse Owens
- Twitter handle: @shannonowens
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