Tom Williams has been covering Ocean City High School and Cape-Atlantic League sports for more than 50 years, starting when he was a teenager. He has won 15 awards from the Press Club of Atlantic City for his writing; has been named New Jersey's Sportscaster of the Year seven times, most recently in 2008, 2009 & 2010; was presented the 2003 award for contributions to amateur football in South Jersey by the National Football Hall of Fame; was recognized by the IAABO for his contributions to high school basketball; and, in 2012, was inducted into the South Jersey Basketball Hall of Fame.

Tom's columns have been most regularly seen in the Ocean City Gazette, Upper Township Gazette and the Sentinel-Ledger. His stories also have appeared in The Wildwood Leader, The Currents of Atlantic County and the Philadelphia Inquirer.



Some of Tom's 2000 and 2001 columns from The Gazette can be accessed through this menu:

12/27/00 - Chad Severs, Ocean City Sportsperson of the Year
11/8/00 - Phil Birnbaum Leaves a Legacy of Success
11/1/00 - Ken Leary deserved a Whole Lot Better
10/11/00 - Here comes Ocean City-Mainland again
7/5/00 - The ShopRite LPGA Classic continues to show the way