Harry Minium joined Old Dominion in August of 2018 as a senior executive writer.
Click here to follow along with Minium's article since he joined Old Dominion. In the two years Minium has worked at Old Dominion, he has covered many memorable moments, including ODU's football win over Virginia Tech in 2018, and the Monarchs victory in the 2019 Conference USA men's basketball championship and appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
Minium is a Norfolk native and an Old Dominion graduate (BA, English, 1977) who wrestled for two seasons for the Monarchs. He graduated from Norview High School and Tidewater Community College before enrolling at ODU. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1984 with a Master’s degree in mass communications. His family has close ties to ODU – his mother graduated from ODU and was a long-time Norfolk school teacher. Both his daughters and two brothers also took classes there.
Minium worked nearly a year at The Richmond News Leader before joining The Virginian Pilot in 1979, where he retired last month after nearly 39 years. He was a sports writer and columnist for 23 years before moving to the newsroom to cover Norfolk City hall for nearly ten. He returned to sports in 2012 to cover ODU’s burgeoning football program.
In addition, Minium covered the General Assembly four years and spent several months writing for The Pilot’s editorial page.
Minium won numerous writing awards, and was twice nominated by The Pilot for The Pulitzer Prize.
He won a first place award in the Football Writers of America writing competition in 2013 for his behind the scenes story on how ODU made the decision to join Conference USA (click here for full story).