Ron Kroichick
Sports Columnist
The Chronicle
About this Author
Ron Kroichick has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle since 1995, when he came from the Sacramento Bee. He is the paper’s golf columnist, covering the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, all major championships in Northern California (including the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach) and writing a weekly column on the game’s personalities and trends. He also writes features on the Warriors during NBA season, and on various other topics – ranging from major-league baseball and the NFL to college football and basketball – the rest of the year.
Awards & Recognition
Kroichick and photographer Michael Macor won the California Newspaper Publishers Association first-place award for Best Sports Feature of 2016, for the “Najee Chronicles.” Their series offered a window into the life of the nation’s No. 1 college football recruit, Antioch High School running back Najee Harris (now at Alabama).
Kroichick also is a five-time award winner in the Golf Writers Association of America writing contest, for daily news and daily features; and a five-time honoree in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest. Those awards include second place in best game story and best news story; third place in best feature; fifth place in best investigative reporting; and honorable mention in explanatory reporting, all in the over-250,000-circulation category.
By This Author
Giants minor leaguer Aaron Phillips nearly throws perfect game
August 19, 2019
A’s lose catcher Beau Taylor to Toronto on waiver claim
August 16, 2019
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