East – May 2026 – Sports Action

Judges Comments

This was a strong category that made it difficult to choose. First place has a nice peak action baseball dive. It’s relatively clean and the player is framed in the blue padding and is floating over a green sea of grass. We like moment of competition and impact the stick is just out of hands and the ball out of stick’s net and she is off the ground. Nice peak action The angle of the stretch of the rebound and expressions of all the players made this a good third place.

Judges: Matthew Hinton/former staff photographer / editor / current freelancer AP / Imagn / AFP, Rusty Constanza/former Times-Picayune staffer / photo educator, Cheryl Gerber/Photo columnist / freelance photographer and photo book author