AWARDS:

2002 Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, First-place Sports Feature, Division D

1999 Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, First-place Sports Story, Division D

1998 Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, Second-place Sports Column, Division D

1997 Suburban Newspapers of America, Second-place, Best Sports Writing

1996 Suburban Newspapers of America, member of Best Sports Section staff

1985 Virginia Press Association, Sports Feature Writing

1983 Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League (ACBL) Media Award, as an intern with The Brooklyn (NY) Paper

David Driver is a native of Harrisonburg, Va., and played baseball at Turner Ashby High School and Eastern Mennonite College (now University). He graduated from EMC in 1985 with a degree in English, and a minor in journalism.

He has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for 20 years, and has covered sports in the region for weekly and daily newspapers. He has also been a sports stringer for the Associated Press in Washington for more than 10 years, and has covered NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and college basketball games during that time. He has also been the sports editor of the Laurel (MD) Leader and the Baltimore Examiner, and in the past he has run independent websites that covered the Washington Wizards, Virginia Commonwealth University and Liberty University. He began his career with the daily paper in Harrisonburg, Va., and also worked for The Brooklyn Paper in New York City while in college. Among the athletes he has interviewed include Paul Molitor, Art Monk and Darrell Green.

David and his family lived in Hungary from 2003 to 2006, and during that time he did nearly 100 stories on American basketball players in Europe for North American publications, and also covered world championship events in boxing, wrestling and basketball.

He has contributed to Baseball America, Baseball Digest, Orioles Magazine, Basketball Times, Tar Heel Monthly, Wolfpacker, Cavalier Corner and the Washington Nationals' game program, and many major daily newspapers across the country, including The Washington Post, Washington Times, Oregonian (Portland), Sacramento Bee, Toledo Blade, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Raleigh News-Observer, Colorado Springs Gazette, Birmingham News, Nashua Telegraph, Portland (Maine) Press-Herald, Connecticut Post and many others. He is the DC/Maryland/Virginia correspondent for Sports Unlimited Magazine, which covers pro and college sports in the Southeast.

He and his wife, Liz, and two daughters and two cats live in suburban Maryland.