{{short description|American journalist}} {{Infobox person |image = |image_size = |caption = |name = George Dohrmann |birth_name = George Anderson Dohrmann<ref>''[http://www.archives.nd.edu/Commencement/1995-05-21_Commencement.pdf The Commencement Exercises]''. University of Notre Dame: May 19, 1995. p. 36.</ref> |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|02|14}} |birth_place = Stockton, California |known_for = Investigative reporting |education = BA American Studies,<br> Notre Dame (1995)<br>MFA in Creative Writing,<br> University of San Francisco |alma_mater = University of Notre Dame |occupation = Sports writer |spouse = Sharon |children = Jessica |parents = George and Suzette<!-- PTHO, p.422 --> |footnotes = <ref name=pulitzer/> <ref name=PTHO/> <ref name=autobio/> }}
'''George Dohrmann''' (born February 14, 1973), is an editor and writer for ''The Athletic'', the 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for beat reporting,<ref name=pulitzer>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/biography/2000,Beat+Reporting|title=Beat Reporting – Biography|work=The Pulitzer Prize Winners 2000|publisher=The Pulitzer Board|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref> and author of ''Play Their Hearts Out'', which received the 2011 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.<ref name=PTHO>{{cite book |last=Dohrmann |first=George |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N9CIjJbYAr8C |title=Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine |edition=unabridged |publisher=Random House LLC |isbn=978-0345523167 }}</ref>
==Background and career== In college, he wrote for ''The Observer''.
In 2000, while working at the St. Paul ''Pioneer Press'', Dohrmann won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories that uncovered widespread academic fraud in the University of Minnesota men's basketball program. The Citation says, {{blockquote |Awarded to '''George Dohrmann''' of ''St. Paul Pioneer Press'' for his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.<ref name=cite2000>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2000,Beat+Reporting|title=Pulitzer Prize – Citation|work=The Pulitzer Prize Winners 2000|publisher=The Pulitzer Board|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref>}}
A few months after winning the prize he joined ''Sports Illustrated'' where he worked as a senior writer dealing with investigative projects into college basketball, college football and soccer.<ref name=autobio>{{cite web |url=http://georgedohrmann.com/about-george |title=George Dohrmann - About George |publisher=georgedohrmann.com |access-date=4 March 2014 |archive-date=6 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306230022/http://georgedohrmann.com/about-george |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Dohrmann published his first book, ''Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine'', on October 5, 2010, through Ballantine Books. The book was the result of more than eight years of investigative work. The book "reveals a cutthroat world where boys as young as eight or nine are subjected to a dizzying torrent of scrutiny and exploitation. At the book's heart are the personal stories of two compelling figures: Joe Keller, an ambitious coach with a master plan to find and promote 'the next LeBron,' and Demetrius Walker, a fatherless latchkey kid who falls under Keller's sway and struggles to live up to unrealistic expectations."<ref name=PTHO/>
;Awards :Associated Press Sports Editors, second place, enterprise reporting, 1995.<ref name=pulitzer/> :Associated Press Sports Editors, second place, investigative reporting, 1996.<ref name=pulitzer/> :Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, 2000.<ref name=pulitzer/> :Winner of the Award for Excellence in Coverage of Youth Sports, 2010. ''Play Their Hearts Out''<ref name=excellence>{{cite web |url=http://comm.psu.edu/news-events/awards/award-for-excellence-in-coverage-of-youth-sports |title=Award for Excellence in Coverage of Youth Sports |publisher=Penn State College of Communications}}</ref> :Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, 2011. ''Play Their Hearts Out''<ref name=ESPN>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/literature/2011-espn-award-literary-sports-writing |title=2011 ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing |publisher=PEN American Center |access-date=7 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924073156/http://www.pen.org/literature/2011-espn-award-literary-sports-writing |archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
;Career :Los Angeles Times, staff writer, Sports section, 1995–1997.<ref name=pulitzer/> :St. Paul Pioneer Press, staff writer, Sports section, 1997–2000.<ref name=pulitzer/> :Sports Illustrated, senior writer, 2000–2015<!-- 7 March 2014--><ref name=autobio/>
;Works *{{cite book |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N9CIjJbYAr8C |title=Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine |edition=unabridged |publisher=Random House LLC |isbn=978-0345523167 }} *{{cite book |year=2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UbrPH3HCBbcC |title=Hand-Me-Down Dream (Essay): Father, Son, and the Burden of Basketball |edition=unabridged |access-date=4 March 2014 |publisher=Random House LLC |isbn=978-0345530127 }}
==See also== *List of University of Notre Dame alumni#Journalists and media personalities *2000 Pulitzer Prize *PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing *Sports Illustrated – click [show] in infobox "Staff writers" section
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==External links== *[http://www.georgedohrmann.com George Dohrmann's website]
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