National Journalism Honors

Best American Sports Writing

Honored six times for stories considered among the best in the country in annual anthology:

• 2019 edition (“Hoops, Hijabs, Heartbreak, and Hope: Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir comes home with a message,” masslive.com, April 17, 2018): https://www.masslive.com/living/2018/04/hoops_hijabs_heartbreak_and_hope_bilqis_abdul-qaadir_comes_home_with_a_message.html
  
• 2010 edition (“Covered in Glory,” The Boston Globe, February 8, 2009): http://www.sportswriters.net/usbwa/awards/writing/2009/magazine.html
  
• 2006 edition (“The Mias Touch,” Hampshire Life, August 19 and 26, 2005) – see below
  
• 2001 edition (“Getting the Call,” Sport, July, 2000)
  
• 1996 edition (“The Passing of a Rivalry,” Daily Hampshire Gazette, November 9, 1995)
  
• 1993 edition (“0 and 15,” Hampshire Life, December 4, 1992)

United States Basketball Writers Association

• 2012-13, Best Column, 2^nd place: http://www.sportswriters.net/usbwa/awards/writing/2012/index.html
  
• 2009-10, Best Magazine Length Feature, 1^st place: http://www.sportswriters.net/usbwa/awards/writing/2009/magazine.html
  
• 2007-08, Best Magazine Length Feature, 1^st place: http://www.sportswriters.net/usbwa/awards/writing/2007/index.html

Associated Press Sports Editors

• 1994, Column writing, first place (under 50,000 circulation)