Luke DeCock of the News & Observer won first place in the 2021 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division B Column Writer category.
DeCock will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2022 APSE Summer Conference banquet at The Alexander Hotel in Indianapolis on June 18. Click here to register for the conference.
Jenni Carlson of The Oklahoman and Ben Frederickson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch finished tied for second.
Sports editors in Division B submitted 54 entries in Column Writing.
Contest chair Jorge Rojas and fellow APSE officers Gary Potosky, Naila-Jean Meyers and Ed Reed prepared the entries. The contest is open to APSE members.
In February, judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10 on a separate ballot. 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 final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
The winner in each category will receive a plaque at the summer conference. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.
The top 10 is listed below with voting results and links to the winning entries.
1. Luke DeCock, News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 51 points (2 first-place votes)
T2. Jenni Carlson, The Oklahoman 1, 2, 3, 4, 44 points (1 first-place vote)
T2. Ben Frederickson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch 1, 2, 3, 4, 44 points (2 first-place votes)
4. Rob Oller, The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 1, 2, 3, 4, 32 points
T5. Paul Daugherty, The Cincinnati Enquirer 1, 2, 3, 4, 31 points (1 first-place vote)
T5. Gentry Estes, The Tennessean (Nashville) 1, 2, 3, 4, 31 points
T5. Tim Sullivan, Courier Journal (Louisville, Ky.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 31 points
T8. Mike Finger, San Antonio Express News 1, 2, 3, 4, 25 points
T8. Mark Giannotto, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 25 points
10. Kirk Bohls, Austin American-Statesman 1, 2, 3, 4, 16 points
Greetings and congratulations from Evanston, Luke DeCock!
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