About the author
Allen Vaughan is an award-winning, self-employed journalist living in Springfield, Missouri. Born and raised in Urbana, Allen found himself drawn to sports, music and entertainment, despite growing up in a town of 350 and a small, rural school district. Still, he found ways to inject his personality into all of his projects.
RecSpecsOnline.com is the fruit of all of his labor. After working at the Springfield News-Leader for the past six years — four as the lead high school sports reporter — Allen decided it was time to raise the stakes. With the lack of any local written sports opinion, RecSpecsOnline.com is the vehicle to deliver that perspective and context that you have been missing.
Thanks for visiting and stop by often. Go ahead and tell a friend, too. You are a part of a grass-roots movement that will change the Ozarks’ sports landscape.
Awards:
* 2009 Associate Press Sports Editors national award — Explanatory, circulation 40,000-100,000, “One arm”
* 2009 Missouri Press Association — Best sports news story or package, No. 2, “One Arm”