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Free Press sportswriter Paul Wiecek has been named winner of the 2016 Paul McLean Award.
The award is handed out annually at the Brier, given to a media person behind the scenes who has made a significant contribution to the sport of curling. The recognition is in honour of McLean, a highly respected TSN producer who had a large impact on the sport of curling, as well as CFL football and world junior hockey, before cancer took his life at the age of 39 in 2005.
“I knew Paul, and that was a guy who was dedicated to that sport and a guy, like everyone who knows this sport, who loved the athletes, the curlers, the ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” Wiecek said in a phone interview from Ottawa where he’s covering his 17th Brier.
“That’s what curling is all about. To win something with his name on it like this is obviously extra special. Just to have your name mentioned in the same sentence as that guy is something very special.”
The award was presented during the semifinal match of the Brier Saturday. Wiecek is the 10th recipient of the award, which was first handed out in 2007.
“I am a terrible curler but I like covering curling and I love covering curlers,” said Wiecek. “I’ve been lucky to do it all these years.”
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Jeff Hamilton
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Jeff Hamilton is a sports and investigative reporter. Jeff joined the Free Press newsroom in April 2015, and has been covering the local sports scene since graduating from Carleton University’s journalism program in 2012. Read more about Jeff.
Every piece of reporting Jeff produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber.
Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
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