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On Tuesday, Deseret Information sports activities author Jay Drew was named Utah Sportswriter of the 12 months by the Nationwide Sports activities Media Affiliation.
Drew was certainly one of 115 who received 2021 state sportscaster or sportswriter honors.
BYU Radio Community’s Greg Wrubell was named Utah Sportscaster of the 12 months. Wrubell was certainly one of 70 first-time winners.
Drew, who primarily covers BYU Cougars soccer and Utah Runnin’ Utes males’s basketball, was honored for the third time in his profession.
Wrubell is the Voice of the Cougars, doing play-by-play for soccer, males’s basketball, soccer and baseball.
Nationally, and for the primary time in affiliation historical past, there was a tie for the nationwide Sportscaster of the 12 months. The 2021 winners are Turner Sports activities’ Ernie Johnson and ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt.
ESPN.com’s Jeff Passan was voted the 2021 nationwide Sportswriter of the 12 months.
The NSMA will honor its winners and Corridor of Fame inductees throughout the group’s 62nd awards weekend and nationwide conference, scheduled for June 25-27 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
The late Stuart Scott is certainly one of 4 voted into the Nationwide Sports activities Media Affiliation Corridor of Fame within the class of 2022, together with sportscaster Hubie Brown, and sportswriters Curry Kirkpatrick and Jackie MacMullan.