Denver Post columnist Mark Kiszla and sportswriters Terry Frei and Benjamin Hochman were honored with first-place awards at Saturday night’s Colorado Press Association awards ceremony.
Frei won best sports story for his reporting on former Broncos players fighting for disability payments from the NFL and the players association. Hochman won the sports event coverage award for his story on Colorado Springs wrestler Henry Cejudo’s gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Kiszla won in the sports columnist division. Woody Paige was third.
Sports designer Lori Punko took a first-place award in page design and Kristin Bellini took second.
The CPA event concluded an award-winning week for the The Post’s sports section. Earlier last week, The Post was named in the top 10 Sunday sections nationally by The Associated Press Sports Editors in papers 250,000 and over and received an honorable mention for daily and special sections.
Kiszla was named a top-10 national columnist by APSE, and Mike Klis’ and Joey Bunch’s coverage of the indictment in the Darrent Williams murder investigation was top 10 in breaking news.
Post nets awards
A look at the awards last week for The Denver Post sports staff:
COLORADO PRESS ASSOCIATION
Class 7 (75,000-over circulation)
Sports columnist
Mark Kiszla, first place
Woody Paige, third place
Best sports story
Terry Frei, first place
Sports event coverage
Benjamin Hochman, first place
Mark Kiszla, third place
Page design
Lori Punko, first place
Kristin Bellini, second place
COLORADO AP REPORTERS AND EDITORS
Division III (over 100,000 circulation)
Sports column
Woody Paige, first place
Sports story
Terry Frei, second place
COLORADO SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS
Sports column
Mark Kiszla, third place
General sports reporting
Lindsay H. Jones, first place
Benjamin Hochman, second and third place
Sports features
Scott Willoughby, third place
