On Saturday, Nov. 1, the American Collegiate Press awarded the Online Wildcat the following awards:

• General excellence: first place

• Overall site design: first place

• Editorial content: second place

I think I can safely speak for the whole webstaff when I say

Of course, we have a billion people to thank, people like...

• Keith Diehl, who nurtured this site out of its grey-and-black dark ages and into the current format. This site has Keith all over it - it is Keith, and he deserves one enormous congratulations as much as anyone else.
• Brett Bendickson, the University of Arizona's webguru and support god, whose previous and current work with the Wildcat have kept it going all these years, and going well.
• Faith Edman, for her prolonged enthusiasm, guidance and support.
• Mark Woodhams, for his support -- and this righteous new equipment.
• Kelly Sampson and Todd Hardy, for being editors who recognize the importance of a paper's Web presence.
• Christine Verges, for being the editor who not only realized that we had to get this paper online in the first place, but managed to do so.
• Gabe Leung, for putting in all those early mornings.
• Al Brower and Megan Guertner, for currently putting in the early mornings to get this paper online. You guys are great, we're lucky to have you, and congratulations on a heck of a job.
• And if I'm allowed to thank myself, Bryan Hance, well, I will. Thanks for trying to make everything work smoothly, thank being the in-house technogeek, and thanks for contributing a mad amount of time to this site.

You know, this might just make it worth getting up at 6 a.m. every day...