ABOUT PAUL HEYSE
Chronicle-Telegram sportswriter Paul Heyse has reported on high school
sports since 1981.
Heyse has covered state track and field and state cross country tournaments
since 1984. He has been a sportswriter for the Chronicle-Telegram since
Heyse worked for Sun Newspapers, a chain of weekly newspapers,
from 1981 until joining the Chronicle staff.
He earned the 2017 Jim Allen Award for media service by the Lorain
County Athletic Administrators Association and the Distinguished Service
Award for District 2 in 2017 by the Ohio Association of Track and Cross
Country Coaches Association.
Heyse was inducted into the 2011 Berea High Athletic Hall of Fame along
with the 1978 football team. He received the 2014 Northeast Ohio
Interscholastic Athletic Administrators’ Ralph Quisenberry Service Award
and 2014 Sam Levine Bowling Memorial Award. Heyse also received 2009
Westlake Relays Dedication Award plus was a 2004 Media Service Award
from the Ohio High School Athletic Association. He was a 2002 Contributor
Award recipient by the OATCCC. Heyse is founder and chair for the Lorain
County Track and Cross Country Hall of Fame starting in 2009.
He was an Ohio Games track and field finalist for 11 straight years from
1990-2000. Heyse won the 800-meter championship in 2000 for the 35-39
and a bronze in 1990 and ’91 for age 30-34. He finished eighth at the 1992
USATF Indoor Masters Nationals, 11 th at the 2011 USATF Outdoor Masters
Nationals and 16 th at the 2013 National Senior Games for the 800. He
continues to compete, mostly 5K road races.
Heyse earned a masters degree in 1993 from Bowling Green State
University and a bachelor’s degree in 1983 from Baldwin-Wallace College.
He was a starter for Berea High School’s 1978 Division I state runner-up
football team. He also lettered in track.
Paul and his wife, Diana, live in Strongsville.
We all have different gifts, each of which came because of the grace
God gave us.
Romans 12:6 (NCV)