2020 Quincy Blue Devil Sports Hall of Fame Inductee: Matt Schuckman, Friend of Sports

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The 2020 and 2021 classes are being inducted into the Quincy Blue Devil Sports Hall of Fame together this year. Schuckman will be inducted on Saturday, Nov. 27 before QHS’s boys basketball game.)

The author of “Stand Up and Cheer: A Century of Blue Devils Basketball” and a reporter who has covered the most significant moments involving Quincy High School athletics for more than two decades, Matt Schuckman turned his passion for sports and writing into the ability to keep QHS fans informed and entertained on a daily basis.

Currently the editor of MuddyRiverSports.com after more than two decades as a sports writer, columnist and editor for the Quincy Herald-Whig, Schuckman has spent 23 seasons as the beat writer covering the QHS boys basketball program, as well as 18 seasons as the color analyst for WGEM Radio’s coverage of the Blue Devils. He also has been the color analyst for WGEM TV’s broadcasts involving the Blue Devils.

He has chronicled the careers of multiple QHS Hall of Famers such as state champions Luke Guthrie, Mark Vahle and Tony Douglas and six QHS teams that have won state trophies.

A 1991 graduate of Quincy High School, Schuckman began his journalism career as the University of Missouri men’s basketball beat writer for the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune before becoming editor of Inside Mizzou Sports magazine. He joined the Herald-Whig staff in 1999.

Over the past two decades, Schuckman has received more than 50 writing awards from the Illinois Press Association, the Illinois AP Media Editors and the Missouri Press Association. He has been honored with five top-10 awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors national organization.

He was inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2020.