Over 43 years, Kevin Tresolini has reported on Delaware sports at all levels. He has been named Delaware Sportswriter of the Year a record 13 times over five decades by the National Sports Media Association. As The News Journal’s primary high school reporter from 1986 to 1999, Tresolini built a rep¬u¬tation for care, sensitivity and detail. He has covered University of Delaware basketball since 1993 and Blue Hen football since 1999 and has contributed to coverage of Philadelphia pro teams.

Gannett chose Tresolini from its hundreds of newspapers to cover six Olympics, where he provided stories on local athletes for the chain’s many markets, kept Delaware readers abreast of its Olympians, and wrote vivid, unique, often humorous Olympic Postcards about the scene.

The Associated Press Sports Editors has recognized Tresolini six times in its national Top 10 writing awards, with three top-three citations, among them stories on the danger of cutting weight in wrestling, developmental issues for female distance runners; a coach raising two sons after his wife’s sudden death; a three-sport high school star’s heart attack and subsequent recovery from the brink of death; K.C. Keeler’s stunning firing as Delaware football coach; and a look back at the 1914 death of a Wilmington Friends graduate playing football for Johns Hopkins.

The Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association has also frequently cited Tresolini in its annual awards, including stories on the death of a racehorse at Delaware Park under mysterious conditions, two state wrestling champions overcoming family trauma, a high school lacrosse player succeeding in a sport that his late father adored though it left him paralyzed, and a compilation of Delaware’s all-time best 100 athletes, teams, and coaches.