Quick Facts
Favorite music to write to?
Something I’ve heard a million times.
Favorite punctuation mark?
Question mark
What’s a word you always misspell?
Piece
Brian Bingaman
Director of Strength and Conditioning
___________________________________________________________________________________
SJU Writes: What kinds of writing do you do right now?
BB: A lot of it is reports and note-taking, making sure everything is documented correctly. I updated our policies and procedures.
SJU Writes: What is your favorite aspect of the writing process?
BB: Putting all my ideas down in one place, actually making myself sit down and go through things step by step and implementing it.
SJU Writes: What is your least favorite aspect of the writing process?
BB: Going back through and spell-checking, fact-checking, and revisions. I tend to go really fast, so I’ll miss words.
SJU Writes: What’s the best thing you’ve ever written?
BB: Master’s project, when I was in grad school. It was a youth strength and conditioning manual for coaches including a detailed literature review.
SJU Writes: When you are confronted with a writing task, how do you approach it?
BB: When push comes to shove, I am someone who has to spit my ideas onto paper, and then I will go through and start working them out. When I try to write something, I always end up revising it like 15 times.
SJU Writes: Tell me something about the ideal physical environment in which you like to write.
BB: I am listening to something that I have heard a hundred times. But, I can’t have any other distractions. I’m a morning person, so if I’m writing it flows better in the morning.
—Olivia Clark ’22