The sports department at the Arvada Press will begin a new feature in the sports section this school year through which readers can chime in and vote.
A male and female “athlete of the month” will be selected every month from our Arvada coverage area starting this month. Anyone can nominate student-athletes from the five high schools (Arvada, Arvada West, Faith Christian, Pomona and Ralston Valley) the Arvada Press covers. The sports department will select the two athletes of the month from those nominated.
Nominations can be e-mailed to dennisp@milehighnews.com. Nominations should have an explanation of why they feel the student-athlete is worthy of the award. We also ask that contact information of the student-athlete and their coach be provided.
The Arvada Press will publish feature stories beginning in October each month of the winners.
Another added feature to the sports department is the continuing expansion of coverage on our Web site, www.milehighnews.com. We will post stories after Thursday, Friday and Saturday games where we have reporters, as well as publishing expanded coverage of those games in our paper.
For the last several seasons our Web site has had updated football and softball league standings. We will continue that tradition and run more scores from across Jefferson County. Readers can also vote on our latest sports poll question.
To get to the sports section from the front page of www.milehighnews.com, click on the “Sports” icon and you can go to each of our four (Arvada, Golden, Lakewood and Wheat Ridge) sports front pages.
We are also encouraging readers to post their own photos and stories from games on our www.mymilehighnews.com, our user-driven Web site in which the content is created by readers.
While having solid sports content in our newspapers is a priority, utilizing the Internet is one way we hope to continue to provide our readers more coverage of local athlete teams.