A graduate of Colt Memorial High School in Bristol, Manny Correira is a retired East Bay Newspapers reporter and sports editor and a retired reporter, columnist, and photographer with the Providence Journal.

He has written feature articles about such Warren Athletic Hall of Fame members as Duke, Pat, and Phyllis Abbruzzi, Mike Delekta, Johnny Karcz, Foxy Marshall, and Lizzie Murphy.  One of Manny’s most memorable achievements was having his Murphy story documented in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.  In addition, he has been featured on several local radio broadcasts.

He has been recognized by coaches and athletic administrators for his dedication to schoolboys and schoolgirls in the Warren and Bristol/Warren School Districts, as well as those of Barrington, East Providence, Newport, Portsmouth, and Tiverton.

In 1982 he became the first full-time Sports Information Director at Roger Williams College.  Manny also served on the College’s (now University) Athletic Advisory Board.

He is a past member of the New England Press Association, the College Sports Information Directors of America, the Rhode Island News Photographers Association, and the National Press Photographers Association.

A member of the Bristol Athletic Hall of Fame, Manny received the Rhode Island Interscholastic League 2005 Athletic Administrators Association’s Media Award as the state’s top high school sportswriter.

He was inducted into the Rhode Island Interscholastic Hall of Fame in 2009, joining fellow Warren Athletic Hall of Fame members Duke Abbruzzi, Pat Abbruzzi, and Ann Chandler Morris.  It is noteworthy that he was only the third member of the Rhode Island media (joining Dick Lee and Dick Reynolds) to be so honored.

Manny was the first recipient of the Knights of Corte Reais “Knight of the Year” Award.  He received this 2010 award for a number of reasons, including the fact that he often lectures at both public and private Rhode Island schools on the virtues of newspaper reporting and photo journalism.

(In 2012 Manny was elected to the Rhode Island Press Association's Journalism Hall of Fame.)

Pictures from Hall of Fame archives