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Charlie Eisenhood, editor-in-chief and founder of Ultiworld, reflects on the organization's growth and the importance of community support in keeping the site afloat. Katie Reynolds, D1 Women's College Editor, shares her experience covering women's college lacrosse, including the challenges of providing accurate information despite mistakes made by ESPN commentators during a recent game. The two discuss how Ultiworld's unique approach, built from scratch with no initial funding, has allowed them to stay true to their mission and provide in-depth coverage that sets them apart. With multiple editors and writers on board, the site is able to tackle higher-level work, including rewatching games like the semi-final match between Dartmouth and Stanford. Through this conversation, Eisenhood and Reynolds emphasize the value of community support in enabling Ultiworld to continue producing high-quality content for fans of college lacrosse.
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I'm Charlie Eisen hood I'm the editor-in-chief and founder of ulti world we started the site in July 2012 and we've been building from a one man or two men operation up into now we have multiple editors and a team of writers who brought 15 people to this year's college championships my name is Katie Reynolds and since 2014 I've been doing women's college coverage for all t world and for the last two years I've been the d1 women's college editor talking to these women after some of the toughest games of their lives today is really special and is an awesome privilege that I love doing every year ulster olds business model has changed a ton since we started when we started we had no money I remember the first tournament I went to I used credit card points to fly myself to Seattle to cover the Emerald City Classic and I was coming out of a world where news wanted to be free and everything was going to be a driven like it had been for many years in journalism with newspapers it became clear fairly quickly I would say within a couple of years that that we needed to have something beyond that we need community support in order to be able to operate as a company and you know I'm 29 years old now I have not taken a paycheck from multi-world yet I tutor part-time in order to pay my bills that's gonna change soon because it has to we needed support from the community to continue to do some of the higher-level work that we've been doing recently rewatching the semi-final last night between Dartmouth and Stanford Dartmouth had numbers and names on their roster wrong and listening to the ESPN commentators call the game for so much of the game they were calling one of Dartmouth's star handlers by a freshman same there's no blame this is really put on ESPN there but that's the difference that ulti ruled has is we know these teams inside it out and we don't just know what they did this weekend or this season we know what they did last season and we know how they played this season before that and it's that level of like depth and knowing these teams and knowing their histories and there are programmatic evolutions that I think...
