The staff at Lehigh Valley Live won first place in the 2024 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division C Project 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. 

Lehigh Valley Live will receive a plaque. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.                                                                                    

Sports editors submitted 31 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. Lehigh Valley Live: “Misfire” (2)  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  2. Lincoln Journal Star, Amie Just: “The Cornhusker State” (4) 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  3. The State (Columbia, S.C.), Lou Bezjak and Joshua Boucher: P27  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  4. The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville), Clayton Freeman and Gene Frenette: Greatest 100 athletes  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  5. Capital Gazette (Annapolis, MD): Army-Navy 2025  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  6. Wisconsin State Journal: Wisconsin’s unbreakable high school sports records  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
  7. The Daily Memphian, Drew Hill: Jaren Jackson Jr.  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 
  8. The Pine Belt News (Hattiesburg, Miss.), Andrew Abadie: Spectator to Participator  1 | 2 | 3 
  9. The Herald-Times (Bloomington, Ind.), Michael Niziolek: Indiana QB Kurtis Rourke  1 | 2 
  10. The Patriot-Ledger (Quincy, Mass.), Chris McDaniel: South Shore NFL Mock Draft  1 | 2 

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