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Zack Creglow from The Register-Mail (Ill.) has been named Sports Writer of the Year for Division B in the 2009 Best of GateHouse contest.
About his entry
Zack Creglow used narrative voice and an eye for compelling stories to report on the sole girl in a junior football league, remember a legendary college basketball coach and tell the story of a young baseball coach’s fatal illness. Creglow wrote about the success of Samantha Goben, a sixth-grader who is the only girl playing in a local junior football league. He created a narrative arc with tension and resolution, pacing and detail. When men’s basketball coach Tim Heimann died after a battle with cancer, Creglow paid him tribute with anecdotes from those who knew him well. “If wealth is determined by the number of people you touch, he would be in the Warren Buffett category,” a friend said of the coach. In a Father’s Day story about Jason Gray, a local college athlete and coach, Creglow first took readers inside the hospital nursery where Gray welcomed his son. Gray was a father for only 53 days, and Creglow told the man’s story from start to finish.
Judges’ comments
The judges lauded Creglow’s ability to craft stories using narrative storytelling. “Sports sections, where the material offers the inherent drama of winning, losing, striving, overcoming, attempting, failing, resolving and celebrating, is a perfect venue. … He writes with authority, voice and clarity. He demonstrates a fine way with words not only in his engaging leads, but throughout his pieces.”
Finalist
Dan D’Addona The Holland (Mich.) Sentinel
Zack Creglow from The Register-Mail (Ill.) has been named Sports Writer of the Year for Division B in the 2009 Best of GateHouse contest.
About his entry
Zack Creglow used narrative voice and an eye for compelling stories to report on the sole girl in a junior football league, remember a legendary college basketball coach and tell the story of a young baseball coach’s fatal illness. Creglow wrote about the success of Samantha Goben, a sixth-grader who is the only girl playing in a local junior football league. He created a narrative arc with tension and resolution, pacing and detail. When men’s basketball coach Tim Heimann died after a battle with cancer, Creglow paid him tribute with anecdotes from those who knew him well. “If wealth is determined by the number of people you touch, he would be in the Warren Buffett category,” a friend said of the coach. In a Father’s Day story about Jason Gray, a local college athlete and coach, Creglow first took readers inside the hospital nursery where Gray welcomed his son. Gray was a father for only 53 days, and Creglow told the man’s story from start to finish.
Judges’ comments
The judges lauded Creglow’s ability to craft stories using narrative storytelling. “Sports sections, where the material offers the inherent drama of winning, losing, striving, overcoming, attempting, failing, resolving and celebrating, is a perfect venue. … He writes with authority, voice and clarity. He demonstrates a fine way with words not only in his engaging leads, but throughout his pieces.”
Finalist
Dan D’Addona The Holland (Mich.) Sentinel
