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Welcome
to ctsportswriters.org
the
official web site of the Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance.
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Next Meeting - Thursday, June 17, 12:15 p.m. |
The June meeting for the Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance will take place at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 17 at New Britain Stadium.
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Bridgeport Central, NFA close out basketball seasons as No. 1 teams |
Bridgeport Central, the Class LL state champion, finished No. 1 in the CSWA boys basketball poll for the eighth-straight week. Norwich Free Academy, the winner of the Class LL title on the girls side, finished No. 1 in the girls poll for the first time all season.
Hillhouse, Wethersfield, Northwest Catholic and Mercy rounded out the top five in the final girls poll of the season. Stratford, Hyde Leadership, Hillhous and New London were ranked two through five, respectively, in the final boys polls of the winter season.
The Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance will move forward with baseball and softball polls in the spring season. All of the weekly results for the two basketball polls, as well as the 2009 football poll can be found on the navigation bar to the left.
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Remembering Whitey Piurek |
Former West Haven baseball coach and 1979 Gold Key recipient Whitey Purek passed away Thursday, Dec. 3. He was 94 years old.
The New Haven Register and the Hartford Courant each remember Piurek.
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2010 Kolinsky Journalism Scholarship |
The Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance is accepting applications for its seventh annual Bohdan "Bo" Kolinsky Memorial Journalism Scholarship. The scholarship honors the memory of Bohdan Kolinsky, longtime scholastic sports editor of The Hartford Courant, who died Dec. 14, 2003, at the age of 49.
Click here to download an application and information sheet
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| 2009
Print Journalism Scholarship Winner |
Michael Cohen, a senior at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington, is the winner of the 2009 Bohdan Kolinsky Memorial Journalism Scholarship, sponsored by the Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance.
The scholarship provides $1,000 for the first year of college studies leading to a career in sports journalism. The grant is renewable annually.
Cohen, ranked fourth in a class of more than 190, will enroll at Syracuse University.
Application deadlines for the 2010 Kolinsky Scholarship will be posted in the fall.
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| Remembering Norm Daniels |
2009 Gold Key Award Recipients Honored |
The Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance honored the 2009 recipients of the Gold Key, the Doc McInerney High School Coach of the Year award for male and female sports, and the outstanding male and female athletes at the 2009 Gold Key Dinner April 26.
Since 1940, the Alliance has awarded Gold Keys to those from Connecticut who have made their stamp on the sporting world on the youth, high school, college and professional levels. Past recipients of the Gold Key Award include New York Giants football great Ken Strong (1945), Eastern Connecticut State baseball coach Bill Holowaty (1989) and St. Joseph boys basketball coach Vito Montelli (1998).
This year's recipients were: Dr. Ray Cieplik, Coast Guard Academy athletic director and a former men's soccer coach; Thomas Nevers, former Hale Ray High School and Eastern Connecticut State soccer coach; Brian Leetch, former NHL defensemen for the New York Rangers; and Stan Ogrodnik, former Trinity College men's basketball coach.
Click here to view bios for this year's recipients, as well as the other award winners
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