Photo of Alon Kremmerman, Will Karr and Alon Haimovitz holding up the The Leader’s 2022 Best Sports Coverage Plague. Photo by ABIGAIL MILLER | News Editor.
The Leader recently ranked First Place in Best Sports Coverage for The New York State Press Association’s 2022 Best College Newspaper Contest, which includes college newspapers from all across the New York State region. The Leader received first place for three sports article submissions about Fredonia varsity/NCAA level sports that were written by Will Karr, Alana Wingate and Jules Hoepting.
One of the submitted articles was “A brotherhood that transcends boundaries,” written by current Editor in Chief Will Karr. The article profiles two Fredonia men’s basketball players, Alon Kremmerman and Alon Haimovtiz, journey of coming over to America from Israel to play college level basketball.
The other two submitted sports articles include Jules Hoepting’s “For the love of hockey: Canadian goaltender drove 30 plus hours in winter conditions to get to Fredonia” and Alana Wingate’s “Blue Devil cheerleaders build bonds through love of sport.”
The New York State Press Association’s 2022 Best College Newspaper Contest also awarded The Leader with First Place in Design for the second year in a row. The issues submitted were designed by Jules Hoepting and Alyssa Bump.
The Leader received an Honorable Mention for General Excellence, and Karalyn Hope’s photograph from Issue 10, Spring 2022 received Second Place in Photography.