Eric Hylden of the Grand Forks Herald won first place in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2018 contest in Action Photo for the D Division.
Hylden’s photo from North Dakota high school football finished just ahead of Jacob Byk of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle as runner-up.
Sports editors in the D Division submitted 37 action photo entries. The contest is open to APSE members. Click here to join.
Contest chair Todd M. Adams and fellow APSE officers John Bednarowski, Lisa Wilson and Dan Spears prepared entries, which included online links to stories for the first time this year.
In February, preliminary judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Orlando, Fla., and off-site around the country, selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10 separately on a secret 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 winner and final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
Hylden will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2019 APSE Summer Conference Banquet at the Omni CNN Center on June 19. The second- through 10th-place writers will receive frameable certificates.
Action photo entries were the best single action photo from a sporting event by the photographer, with judging based on the quality of the photo.
The top 10 is listed below with links to the winning entries.
1. Eric Hylden, Grand Forks Herald, 38 points (2 first-place votes)
2. Jacob Byk, Wyoming Tribune Eagle, 37 points (2)
3. Yfat Yossifor, San Angelo Standard-Times, 27 points
4 (tie). Jenna Kieser, Columbia Missourian, 23 points
4 (tie). Ernie Masche, Hickory Daily Record, 23 points
6. Joel Reichenberger, Steamboat Pilot & Today, Steamboat Springs, Colo., 19 points
7. Tommy Martino, The Missoulian, Missoula, Mont., 17 points
8. Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 14 points
9 (tie). Shannon Broderick, Laramie Boomerang, 11 points9 (tie). Joe Phelan, Kennebec Journal, 11 points
