Chase Goodbread of The Tuscaloosa News won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2022 contest in the Division D Columns category.

APSE contest winners and top-10 finishers will be honored at the 2023 APSE Summer Conference banquet at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas on July 12. Click here to register for the conference, which begins on July 9 and will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of APSE.          

John Bednarowski of the Marietta Daily Journal was second, and Jim Henry of the Tallahassee Democrat was third.  

Goodbread will receive a plaque. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.    

Chase Goodbread

                                                                                                 

Sports editors in Division D submitted 25 Columns entries, with four columns per entry. 

Contest chair Naila-Jean Meyers and fellow APSE officers Jorge Rojas, Dan Spears and Ed Reed prepared the entries. The contest is open to APSE members. 

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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. Entries were given 10 points for a first-place vote, nine points for second and so on down to one point for a 10th-place vote. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1-10 in the same fashion. 

The top 10 is listed below with voting results and links to the winning entries.

  1. Chase Goodbread, The Tuscaloosa News 1 2 3 4, 54 points (4 first-place votes) 
  2. John Bednarowski, Marietta Daily Journal 1 2 3 4, 45 points (1 first-place vote)
  3. Jim Henry, Tallahassee Democrat 1 2 3 4, 40 points 
  4. Ryne Dennis, Athens Banner-Herald 1 2 3 4, 38 points
  5. Matt Schuckman, Muddy River Sports 1 2 3 4, 33 points 
  6. Marc Weiszer, Athens Banner-Herald 1 2 3 4, 29 points 
  7. David Whitley, Gainesville Sun 1 2 3 4, 26 points 
  8. Don Williams, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal 1 2 3 4, 24 points (1 first-place vote) 
  9. John Murphy, Century Newspapers 1 2 3 4, 22 points
  10. Scott Keepfer, The Greenville News 1 2 3 4, 19 points

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