The National Sports Media Association has named Honolulu Star-Advertiser reporter Stephen Tsai as Hawaii’s 2018 Sportswriter of the Year.

Tsai, 58, is the beat reporter for University of Hawaii football, men’s basketball and baseball. He also writes the Warrior Beat blog on the Star-Advertiser’s website.

Tsai is a graduate of Roosevelt High School (1978) and UH (1983). He joined the Honolulu Advertiser in 1981 and the Star-Advertiser in 2010. This is the sixth time Tsai has won the NSMA award.

Kanoa Leahey, a play-by-play announcer for Spectrum Sports, was named Hawaii’s top sportscaster for the second year in a row.