Almanac sports editor wins statewide Keystone Press awards
Eleanor Bailey
Almanac sports editor Eleanor Bailey won two first-place Keystone Press awards and received an honorable mention for her sports coverage in the statewide journalism contest.
Bailey’s photograph of Bishop Canevin’s Brionna Allen walking off the court in despair while Neumann-Goretti players celebrated their March 2017 victory over the Crusaders in the PIAA Class AAA girls’ basketball championship won best sports photo in the contest’s category for weekly newspapers.
Her reporting throughout the year also received a first-place award in the sports beat category. Some of the winning entries included Mt. Lebanon grad Ian Happ’s triumphant homecoming to Pittsburgh as a member the Chicago Cubs, South Fayette boys’ soccer coach Rob Eldridge’s interest in music, the Peters Township girls’ basketball team sewing dresses for women in third-world counties and a Bethel Park teacher trying to collect every helmet the varsity football team has sported on the gridiron.
Bailey’s story about the camaraderie found in a South Hills senior men’s softball league also received an honorable mention in the feature story category.
The Keystone Press Awards banquet will be held June 2 during the Pennsylvania Press Conference in Gettysburg.