Tisha Thompson of ESPN.com won first place in the 2024 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division A Breaking News category.
APSE contest winners will be honored at the 2025 APSE Summer Conference banquet at the Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown on June 28. Registration for the conference is now open.
Thompson will receive a plaque. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.
Sports editors submitted 67 entries in the category. Contest chair Paul Barrett and APSE officers Dan Spears, Perryn Keys and Tony Maluso prepared the entries.
Contest results: Sections, digital, video | Writing and photography
In February, judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and remote judges around the country selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1 to 10 in the same fashion. The final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots. Associated Press Photo Manager Mike Stewart helped choose finalists in the photo categories.
The top 10 are listed, with first-place votes in parentheses, along with links to the winning entries.
The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.
1. Tisha Thompson, ESPN.com (4)
2. Gustavo Arellano, Adam Elmahrek, Nathan Fenno and Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times
3. Ben Goessling and Andrew Krammer, The Minnesota Star Tribune (1)
4. (tie) Brendan Kuty, Rustin Dodd, Evan Drellich, Sam Blum, The Athletic
4. (tie) Scott M. Reid, Southern California News Group (1)
6. Les Carpenter, The Washington Post
7. Cam Inman and Harriet Blair Rowan, Bay Area News Group
8. Emily Giambalvo and Molly Hensley-Clancy, The Washington Post
