FrontRowSoccer.com editor Michael Lewis is a finalist in the sports writing category of the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists’ 2022 Excellence in Journalism Awards Contest.

For EDPSoccer.com last year, Lewis wrote a story Real Jersey goalkeeper Aaron Lefkowitz, who started a not-for-profit organization, Conversations To Remember, to help bright the lives of senior citizens in assisted living facilities.

The story was entitled:

Real Jersey Goalkeeper Creates Not-For-Profit as Boost to Senior Community

The winners will be announced at the Kilgore Center in Princeton/Monmouth Junction on Saturday Nov. 12.

 

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.