Welcome to Charlotte! Please join us at 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon for the general membership meeting. In the meantime, here’s a look at who’s registered for the conference. See you soon.
* – First conference; # – Diversity Fellowship Program; ^ – College student
ALABAMA
* – Alex Byington, TimesDaily/Decatur Daily (Decatur)
# – Joey Chandler, The Tuscaloosa News
James Crepea, Auburn
Tommy Deas, The Tuscaloosa News
* – Maria McIlwain, Auburn University
Dana Sulonen, Opelika-Auburn News (Opelika)
* – John Talty, Alabama Media group (Birmingham)
ARIZONA
* – Sada Reed, Arizona State University (Phoenix)
* – Tommy Stokke, FanRagSports (Phoenix)
CALIFORNIA
Nathan Brown, The Desert Sun (Palm Springs)
Courtney Cronin, San Jose Mercury-News
Zach Ewing, The Bakersfield Californian
Bud Geracie and Donna Kato, Bay Area News group (San Jose)
Mike Hiserman, Los Angeles Times
Tom Moore, Southern California News Group (Los Angeles)
COLORADO
* – Brett Briggerman, The Gazette (Colorado Springs)
Scott Monserud, The Denver Post
Matt Stephens, Fort Collins Coloradoan
# – Graham Watson, Yahoo! Sports (Denver)
* – Matt Wiley, The Gazette (Colorado Springs)
CONNECTICUT
Mary Byrne, ESPN.com (Bristol)
Joe Schad (Plantsville)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Glenn Yoder, The Washington Post
FLORIDA
Nick Feely, The Villages Daily Sun
* – Eric Kay, CBSSports.com (Fort Lauderdale)
Jorge Rojas, Miami Herald
* – Matt Tabeek, CBSSports.com (Fort Lauderdale)
GEORGIA
John Bednarowski, Marietta Daily Journal
* – Fletcher Page, Athens Banner-Herald | OnlineAthens.com
* – James Simpson II, The Macon Telegraph
^ – Trey Simpson, Middle Georgia State University (Macon)
* – Mark Weiszer, Athens Banner-Herald | OnlineAthens.com
ILLINOIS
Tom Quinlan, Daily Record (Arlington Heights)
Paul Skrbina, Chicago Tribune
INDIANA
* – Sam King, Journal & Courier (Lafayette)
IOWA
Bobby La Gesse, Ames Tribune
KENTUCKY
Chris White, The Courier-Journal (Louisville)
LOUISIANA
Joseph and Jessica Schiefelbein, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate/The New Orleans Advocate
MAINE
Justin Pelletier, Sun Journal (Lewiston)
MARYLAND
^ – Glen Charlton, University of Maryland (College Park)
Ron Fritz, The Baltimore Sun
Jon and Mandy Solomon, CBSSports.com (Urbana, Md.)
MASSACH– USETTS
Matt Pepin, The Boston Globe
MICHIGAN
Gerry Ahern, USA TODAY Sports Media (Detroit)
Kevin Bull, The Detroit Free Press
MINNESOTA
Chris Carr, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Glen and Sybil Crevier, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Loren Nelson, Minnesota Hockey Hub (Minneapolis)
MISSISSIPPI
Daniel Paulling, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
MISSOURI
Chris Fickett, The Kansas City Star
* – Cameron Hollway, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
* – Jeff Patterson, The Kansas City Star
Jeff and Tammy Rosen, The Kansas City Star
NEW JERSEY
Noah Coslov, OneUp, (Lyndhurst)
Jane Havsy, Daily Record/Gannett New Jersey (Parsippany)
NEW YORK
Virginia Arrigucci, The Associated Press (New York City)
Greg Brownell, The Post-Star (Glens Falls)
* – Tom Connelly, The New York Times
Michael Giarrusso, The Associated Press (New York City)
Jason Murray, Syracuse Media Group (The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com)
Lisa Wilson, The Buffalo News
Hank Winnicki, Newsday (Melville)
NORTH CAROLINA
Rana Cash, Sporting News (Charlotte)
* – Jack Flagler, Gaston Gazette (Gastonia)
Monica Holland, The Fayetteville Observer
* – Adam Houston, Winston-Salem Journal
Garry D. Howard, American City Business Journals (Charlotte)
Marc Lancaster, Perform-Omnisport (Charlotte)
Mike Persinger, The Charlotte Observer
Dan Spears, Wilmington StarNews
Bob Sutton, Burlington Times-News
* – Brant Wilkerson-New, Winston-Salem Journal
* – Steve Wiseman, Durham Herald-Sun
Eddie Wooten, News & Record (Greensboro)
NORTH DAKOTA
Brad Elliott Schlossman, Grand Forks Herald
OHIO
* – James Pilcher, The Cincinnati Enquirer
OKLAHOMA
# – Katie McInerney, The Tulsa World
Michael Peters, The Tulsa World
Mike and Cathleen Sherman, The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City)
PENNSYLVANIA
Alex Iniguez, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
* – Burke Noel, PennLive/Patriot-News (Mechanicsburg)
Gary Potosky, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Jim and Stacy Reeser, The Citizens’ Voice (Wilkes-Barre)
* – Michael Sanserino, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
# – Lynn Worthy, The Morning Call (Allentown)
SOUTH CAROLINA
^ – Liz Bloom, The Herald (Rock Hill)
* – Bret McCormick, The Herald (Rock Hill)
Rick Millians, The State (Columbia)
SOUTH DAKOTA
Emily Horos, American News (Aberdeen)
TENNESSEE
David Ammenheuser, The Tennessean (Nashville)
Phil Kaplan, Knoxville News Sentinel
Jason Wolf, The Tennessean (Nashville)
TEXAS
Barry Bedlan, The Associated Press (Dallas)
# – Jennie Dial Creech, The Houston Chronicle
Jim and Laurie Lefko, San Antonio Express-News
UTAH
Joe Baird, The Salt Lake Tribune
VIRGINIA
Peter Barzilai, USA TODAY (McLean)
Jack and Colleen Berninger (Richmond)
# – Erik Hall, Roanoke Times
Steven, Brenda and Brooklyn Hemphill, The Roanoke Times
David Meeks, USA TODAY (McLean)
Andi Petrini, Daily Press (Newport News)
Mike Szvetitz, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Tom White, The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk)
WASHINGTON
Don Shelton, The Seattle Times
WISCONSIN
Stu Courtney, USA TODAY network-Wisconsin (Green Bay)
Jeff Maillet, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
WYOMING
Robert Gagliardi, Laramie Boomerang/WyoSports
Jeremiah Johnke, Wyoming Tribune Eagle/WyoSports (Cheyenne)
