Contest beckons youth

An open-entry contest for any budding youth sportswriter has been

launched for the summer by the Daily Pilot sports staff with three

divisions for boys and girls: Third- and fourth-graders (in

September); fifth- and sixth-graders; and seventh- and

eighth-graders.

Participants must simply write a sports story on any subject with

a 1,000-word maximum and submit it to Daily Pilot Sports Editor

Richard Dunn at [email protected] or fax the sports desk at

(949) 650-0170. The mailing address is 330 W. Bay St., Costa Mesa,

92627.

All entries must include name, address, phone number and e-mail

(if possible). Also include your grade in September and school you

attend.

Entries will be accepted throughout the summer of 2004 for the

future sportswriters of the 21st century. Each suitable entry will be

published in the Daily Pilot sports section and judged

unsympathetically by all five members of the sports staff. The last

one standing in each of the three divisions at the end of the summer

will win an opportunity to cover a major event regularly chronicled

by the Daily Pilot while shadowing a staffer.

Only one sports story is allowed per student, but there are no

restrictions on the topic as long as it’s suitable for a family

newspaper.