Brad Elliott Schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald won first place in the 2021 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division C Explanatory category for his article on how the transfer portal impacted the college hockey offseason.

Schlossman 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.  

Adam Fisher and Adam Regan of The News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla., finished second, and Noah Hiles of The Beaver County Times in Aliquippa, Pa., took third.                                                                                               

Sports editors in Division C submitted 38 entries in Explanatory.

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. 

Click here to join.

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.

Explanatory stories include reporting on trends, issues, and original ideas that sheds new light on issues and personalities in the news. They go beyond the “yesterday” of the breaking news story.

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

1. Brad Elliott Schlossman, Grand Forks Herald, 54 points (3 first-place votes)

2. Adam Fisher and Adam Regan, The News-Press (Fort Myers, Fla.), 38 points (1 first-place vote)

3. Noah Hiles, The Beaver County Times (Aliquippa, Pa.), 37 points

T4. Ron Counts, Idaho Statesman (Boise), 35 points

T4. Adam Fisher, Naples (Fla.) Daily News, 35 points (1 first-place vote)

6. Theo DeRosa, The Commercial Dispatch (Columbus, Miss.), 33 points

7. Ethan Joyce, Winston-Salem Journal, 32 points

8. Eric Blum, Columbia (Missouri) Tribune , 29 points (1 first-place vote)

9. Taylor Eldridge, The Wichita Eagle, 23 points

10. Michael Lycklama, Idaho Statesman (Boise), 14 points

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