Editor’s note: This is another in a series of brief profiles of the people who bring you the Morning Sun each day.
If you’ve attended many local sporting events, it’s likely you’ve seen him – trademark ball cap, a camera slung around his neck and a reporter’s notebook in hand. Brock Sisney chronicles the athletic events that live on in our memories over time.
Brock was born in Pittsburg and grew up in Arcadia. He attended elementary and middle school in Arma and graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1997.
His destiny as a newspaper sportswriter may have been sealed when he learned to read at the age of four, picking up copies of the Morning Sun at his grandparents’ house.
“I read the newspaper regularly for many years,” Brock said. “In the sixth grade, I said that I wanted to be a sportswriter, and it came true almost 20 years later.”
After high school, Brock continued first at Fort Scott Community College and then Pitt State, earning in total four degrees. At PSU’s Collegio newspaper, Brock wrote on a variety of topics unrelated to sports.
“I did not expect to become a sportswriter after graduating from college for the last time in May 2010,” Brock said.
After graduation, Brock began freelancing as a sportswriter for the Morning Sun and soon was working at the paper full-time. Over the years, he’s had stints at the Neosho Daily News, Ozarks Sports Zone and SoMo Sports, eventually returning to the Morning Sun in 2023, where it all started.
“It has been a great honor and privilege to work alongside Jim Henry and to cover Pittsburg State, Pittsburg, St. Mary's Colgan, Frontenac, Girard, Southeast and Northeast once again,” Brock said. “It's been nice working for a locally owned newspaper.”
Brock said his job as a sportswriter has given him an opportunity to witness many memorable events. Among his career highlights, Brock lists: covering PSU football winning the 2011 National Championship in Florence, Ala.; PSU women's basketball playing in the 2012 Elite Eight in San Antonio and Crowder baseball playing in the 2017 JUCO World Series in Grand Junction, Colo.
As exciting as national championship competition can be, it’s something a little closer to home that he finds most satisfying.
“Honestly, though, I get as much enjoyment out of covering the Kansas Little League state tournament in Baxter Springs as anything else,” Brock said.
