Tom Rock has been a Newsday reporter since 1996 and began covering the Jets in 2006. Prior to becoming the Jets beat writer, Tom was an outdoors columnist and covered high school and college sports. He won the 2006 Long Island Press Club daily sports reporting award, was cited in the book “Best American Sportswriting of 2006,” and won second place in the Boating Writers International writing competition. Tom grew up in Levittown, is a 1991 graduate of Division Avenue High School, and a 1995 graduate of C.W. Post.