About Seth Davis
About me
When I was a sophomore in high school at The Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, we had an elite bucket getter on our girls’ basketball team named Julianne Rolapp. Her hair was short, her teeth had braces, and her jump shot was pure butter. I had done some writing for our school newspaper, but somehow I got the idea to pitch a feature on Julianne to our local paper, the Montgomery County Sentinel. They told me to go for it. I interviewed Julianne as well as her coach, Jim McGuire. My story started with a horrific cliché about McGuire’s face lighting up “like a Christmas tree” upon the mention of Julianne’s name, but I got the thing published under my byline.