2004 Art Rosenbaum Sports Writing
Scholarship Presentation

Winners of the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame’s 12th Annual Art Rosenbaum High School Sports Writing Scholarship received their awards in an on-field ceremony before the San Francisco Giants – St. Louis Cardinals baseball game on Sunday, August 1, at SBC Park in San Francisco.

L to R: Gia Paoli, Melissa Nylander, Danai Leininger and Andy Slater

First place winner Anne Erickson of Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco received $2500. Second place winners Matt Langseth & Melissa Nylander of California High School, San Ramon, shared $1500. Third place winners, Danai Leininger & Andy Slater of Lowell High School, San Francisco, shared $1,000. Anne Erickson and Matt Langseth were unable to attend the presentation thus Gia Paoli accepted on Anne’s behalf and Melissa Nylander accepted on Matt’s behalf. The late Art Rosenbaum’s granddaughters Cindy and Jenne Viola presented the awards to the scholarship winners.

Jenne presented the checks as Cindy announced the scholarship winners.

Participants in front of the Giants executive office with then BASHOF President Bill Dieterich, Cindy Viola and Jenne Viola.

Honorable mention went to Dakota Anderson of Vacaville High School, Vacaville; Morgan Cantrell of Sir Francis Drake High School, San Anselmo; Molly Crystal of Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto; Diego Del Barco of Capuchino High School, San Bruno; Jessie Ho of Aragon High School, San Mateo; Colt Rosensweig of Menlo Atherton High School, Atherton; and Peter True of Berkeley High School, Berkeley.

This annual scholarship began in 1992 when Rosenbaum completed 60 years as a San Francisco Chronicle columnist-sports editor. He started his journalism career as a high school writer. The $5000 is derived from the Art Rosenbaum retirement party and is supplemented by the Saints and Sinners, a charity which provided milk for school children in the 1980’s.

The Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame would like to thank the San Francisco Giants for providing game tickets to the scholarship winners and for their continued support of the Art Rosenbaum Sports Writing Scholarship program.

The Winning Articles

The Football Mystique: Spirit and Sacks
by Anne Erickson
of Lick-Wilmerding High School

Trainer Quits Amid Controversy
by Melissa Nylander and Matt Langseth
of California High School

Former Girls’ Basketball Coach Fights for Position
by Danai Leininger and Andy Slater
of Lowell High School