Nick Coppola of the Las Cruces Sun News won first place in the 2024 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division D 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.
Coppola will receive a plaque. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.
Sports editors submitted 53 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. Nick Coppola, Las Cruces Sun News (4)
2. Sean Highkin, The Rose Garden Report
3. Andy Mason, Hagerstown (Md.) Herald-Mail (1)
4. Bill Welt, The State Journal-Register (Springfield, Ill.)
5. (tie) Abby Sharpe, Grand Forks Herald
5. (tie) Matt Trowbridge, Rockford Register Star
7. Jeremiah Johnke, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Cheyenne)
8. Anna Snyder, The Tuscaloosa News (1)
9. Andrew Abadie and Haskel Burns, The Pine Belt News (Hattiesburg, Miss.)
