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Chuck Culpepper, a sportswriter who covers national college football and basketball for The Washington Post, has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the Eastern Athletic Communications Association (EAST-COMM) Monahan and Wallace Media Award.

Culpepper joins the slate of 2022 EAST-COMM award recipients that includes Irving T. Marsh Award winners Jon Holtz (Slippery Rock) and Shawn Medeiros (Endicott), Bob Kenworthy Award recipient Jill Weigel (Neumann) and Bill Esposito Memorial Award winner Meghan Barone (Centenary (N.J.). Rick Leddy (NABC/Southern Connecticut) is the 2022 recipient of the Pete Nevins Award for Distinguished Achievement (release).

The 2022 EAST-COMM Awards Banquet is set for the evening of Thursday, June 16 at Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City, Maryland as part of the organization's annual workshop.

The Monahan and Wallace Media Award is bestowed upon an individual or organization in either print or electronic media "for outstanding coverage of eastern intercollegiate athletics." The award is named after longtime sportswriters Bob Monahan of the Boston Globe and Bill Wallace of the New York Times, both former winners of the award.

Chuck Culpepper joined The Washington Post staff in late summer 2014 and covers national college football and college basketball as well as tennis, golf and international sports. He has written previously for Sports On Earth at USA Today, the National (Abu Dhabi), the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Oregonian, the Lexington Herald-Leader, the National Sports Daily, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the Suffolk (Va.) News-Herald and, beginning at age 14, the Suffolk Sun of the Virginian-Pilot.

Culpepper is the recipient of several Associate Press Sports Editors awards, including for a series on Middle Eastern female athletes in 2016. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.