S.C. Press Association awards, 2014

I won some design awards in the 2014 S.C. Press Association contest for designs done for the Morning News of Florence, S.C.
First off, I won this award for best single sports page. I had a great photo from Florence Assistant Sports Editor Mark Haselden, and he let me play around with it a bit.

(Click on all pictures for a bigger version.)

Also in the category of Best Single Sports Page, I also got a third place in that category, for this design:

Lastly, I placed second in best Sports Design Portfolio. The portfolio included the "Evrik the Great" page above, and these two designs.

Karen Hatton, a designer who works with me in the Consolidated Editing Center in Hickory, N.C., also received two awards.

Sam Bundy, the sports editor in Florence, got a first-place award for some stories he wrote on new basketball league, and one team kind of falling out of it over the course of a few weeks. Neat stuff. I remember working most of those stories onto pages, but because it was happening so fast, nothing really compelling presented itself visually for me to work with.

From my extended journalist family, my old college buddy Hal Millard got an award or two.

The Fort Mill Times won the Public Service award with a host of others. My wife, the former publisher of the Times, thinks the Public Service award is the best thing a paper can get.

And The News & Reporter in Chester brought home a whole stack of awards again, including a first place writing award for Nancy Parsons.

I have been at the Hickory CEC since October, 2010, so four full years and some change. I have been entered in three contests in those years, and won each time, with a first place in each of those years, and two first places two years ago.

In my career, which really got kick started in 1994, I have received many other awards, including design, writing, photography, graphic design and in 2006, non-daily journalist of the year.
The papers for which I worked have received multiple awards as well, including public service, general excellence and multiple citations for protecting Freedom of Information.