Good Sport Award Recipients Announced By CSMA For 83rd Gold Key Dinner

They will be honored by the Connecticut Sports Media Alliance at the 83rd Gold Key Dinner in October at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington.

SOUTHINGTON, CT, June 30, 2025 — A half-dozen sportsmen from around the state have been selected as recipients of the John Wentworth Good Sport Award from the Connecticut Sports Media Alliance (CSMA) at the 83rd Gold Key Dinner in October.

The honorees are Rick Evangelisti and Bill Neller of Litchfield (Litchfield Road Race), Ray DeCosta of South Windsor (youth basketball), Skip Falcone of West Haven (West Haven Twilight League), Alex Palluzzi of Branford (parks and recreation) and Bruce Wilhelm of Enfield (youth soccer).

Along with the 2025 Gold Key Award honorees and other previously-announced award winners, they will be feted Oct. 26, 2025 at the Aqua Turf Club in the Plantsville section of Southington.

Receiving Gold Keys will be former Masuk High School and Louisiana State University softball pitcher Rachele Fico, former Stratford High School football star and Super Bowl champion Nick Giaquinto, longtime Yale University men’s basketball coach James Jones, World Series champion pitching coach Dave Wallace and NCAA, WNBA and Olympic basketball champion Kara Wolters.

Previously-announced award winners are Peter King, longtime senior NFL writer for sports Illustrated (President’s Award), Dolores Sawchuk of Colchester (Bo Kolinsky Special Recognition Award), Kyle Clark of Vernon (Bo Kolinsky Memorial Sports Media Scholarship) and Wayne Norman, veteran sportscaster on WILI radio (Bob Barton Excellence In Media Award). More honorees will be revealed in the coming weeks.

Tickets for the Gold Key Dinner are $80, and are available by contacting CSMA president Tim Jensen of Patch Media Corp. at 860-394-5091 or tim.jensen@patch.com. Proceeds support the Bo Kolinsky Memorial Sports Media Scholarship.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Contact Tim Jensen, CSMA president, tim.jensen@patch.com, 860-394-5091