Elizabeth Flores of The Minnesota Star Tribune won first place in the 2025 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division A action photo category.
APSE contest winners will be honored at the 2026 APSE Summer Conference banquet July 18 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va. Registration for the conference is open; you can register right here.
Flores will receive a first-place plaque. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frame-worthy certificates.
Sports editors submitted 41 entries in the Division A action photo category. Contest chair Perryn Keys and APSE officers Paul Barrett, Erik Hall and Tony Maluso prepared the entries.
Contest results: Digital, print and podcasts | Writing and photography
Judges convened in late February, in person at the APSE Winter Conference in Las Vegas and remotely around the nation, to select the top entrants. For what is believed to be the first time, photo categories were judged solely by photographers and photo editors. The photographers and photo editors determined 10 finalists and sent them along in March and April to a second set of judges, who ranked the entries from Nos. 1 to 10 in the same fashion.
The top 10 are listed here.
The contest is open to APSE members each year. Click here to join.
To see a gallery of these photos, click here.
1. Elizabeth Flores, The Minnesota Star Tribune
2. Al Diaz, Miami Herald
3. Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune
4. Finn Gomez, Detroit Free Press
5. Danielle Parhizkaran, The Boston Globe
6. Michael Johnson, The Advocate/The Times-Picayune
7. Andy Mills, NJ Advance Media (Newark)
8. Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle
9. Sophia Germer, The Advocate/The Times-Picayune
10. Hans Gutknecht, Southern California News Group
