Quentin Corpuel fills big shoes as 2025 Hummel Intern at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Quentin Corpuel, a junior at the Missouri School of Journalism, is the 2025 Rick Hummel Memorial Intern at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. There, he will spend the summer covering sports while learning from Derrick Goold, the Post-Dispatch’s lead baseball writer.
“He’ll have assignments covering a variety of sports and the opportunity, from the beginning, to pitch stories he’d like to pursue,” Goold wrote in an X message. “He will also have some time at the ballpark to work with us … and experience the day-to-day of a Major League Baseball beat.”
Corpuel will follow in the footsteps of a long list of interns since the highly competitive program’s founding in 2007 — all of whom, according to Goold, began careers in journalism after graduating. Ben Fredrickson, the Post-Dispatch sports columnist for the last decade until his departure at the end of last year, was the 2011 Hummel Intern. Peter Baugh, a 2018 intern, is now a staff writer for the Athletic and the author of a book about the National Hockey League’s Colorado Avalanche.
The hands-on opportunity in a city known for its rich sports traditions won’t be Corpuel’s first chance to learn on the job in his time at the School of Journalism. He covered college athletics for Sports Illustrated in 2024, including handling the Mizzou softball beat, and has covered football and men’s and women’s basketball for Rock M Nation since 2023. He has also reported for FOX Sports Midwest and, of course, the Columbia Missourian, the School of Journalism’s professional community newspaper.
But for Corpuel, the Hummel Internship has added significance given its namesake, a fixture in St. Louis baseball journalism for more than half a century.
Rick Hummel was an icon in St. Louis. The story of baseball was often better when he wrote it. Rick wasn’t just given awards and accolades; he earned them. I look forward to carrying on his legacy this summer.
Quentin Corpuel
“Rick Hummel was an icon in St. Louis,” Corpuel wrote on X. “The story of baseball was often better when he wrote it. Rick wasn’t just given awards and accolades; he earned them. I look forward to carrying on his legacy this summer.”
Corpuel will also be carrying on the legacy of the School of Journalism’s Missouri Method of learning by doing, which ensures that students know newsrooms not as abstract concepts from a textbook but as tangible learning environments where they build skills in community reporting before entering the workforce.
“This opportunity is a testament to the dedication students like Quentin bring to sports journalism well before graduation,” said Lynda Kraxberger, School of Journalism associate dean for undergraduate studies. “The St. Louis Post Dispatch’s faith in Quentin Corpuel and past Hummel award winners speaks to the strength of our program in preparing students to step into top-tier newsrooms ready to contribute on their very first day.”
About the Rick Hummel Memorial Internship
Supported by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, the internship began in 2007 when Rick Hummel was well into his tenure as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s national baseball writer. Each summer, one Mizzou journalism student produces coverage for the paper across a range of sports at the high school, college and professional levels.
Hummel died in 2023 with a sterling reputation as a baseball journalist. A member of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame and the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame, he was also named Missouri Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association four times.
Updated: February 3, 2025