The News Journal

By Beth Miller

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The Hill newspaper, Capitol Hill’s daily must-read, wants you to know Delaware’s freshman congressman John C. Carney Jr. was “the hottest shot” in Congress in its foul-shot contest this week.

Carney, a Democrat and former two-time lieutenant governor of Delaware, had the only perfect record in the shootout, his office notes.

The Hill’s story, written by Christina Wilkie, said half a dozen Members of Congress participated in the contest, which was sponsored by the U.S. Olympic Committee and held in a Rayburn House Office Building committee room. A dozen Olympic and Paralympic athletes also participated. Carney’s partner was Olympic Gold Medalist and two-time Georgia All-American Teresa Edwards, a member of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Wilkie guessed Carney to be about 5-foot-7 and said “it was the little guys, not the jocks, who took home the gold.”

Actually, Carney’s office says, the congressman is 5-10. And his athletic prowess is well known to St. Mark’s High School football fans and those who followed his All-Ivy League college football career at Dartmouth College.