March 18, 2002

3 WKU Students Selected For Sports
Journalism Seminar

Bowling Green, Ky. - Three Western Kentucky University students have been selected for the 11th annual Collegiate Sports Journalism Seminar at Churchill Downs in Louisville.

Photojournalism students Justin Fowler, a Columbia junior, and Yuli Wu, a junior from Ann Arbor, Mich., and print journalism student Malcolm Knox, a Louisville senior, will be among 41 students participating in the April 25-28 event.

The Collegiate Sports Journalism Seminar is held in conjunction with the media build-up to the Kentucky Oaks and Derby. A group of the nation's top student journalists, who have an interest in a sports journalism or sports photography career, are selected each year to participate in the three-day event.

Seminar participants will interact with and learn from some of the nation's premier sports journalists and photographers who serve as guest speakers during a series of panel discussions. Students also will participate in a daylong sports journalism workshop on April 27, opening day of Churchill Downs' 2002 Spring Meet.

The students will produce a collection of sports stories and photographs to be published in an electronic newspaper available on the seminar's official Web site, www.churchilldowns.com/seminar.

The Collegiate Sports Journalism Seminar is open to full-time college juniors and seniors in undergraduate programs. Selection of participants is based on nominations from professors or departmental chairpersons and on work samples submitted by applicants.

The tuition-free program is made possible by several sponsors, including the Daily Racing Form, Kentucky Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, Kentucky Thoroughbred Association, National Thoroughbred Racing Association, National Turf Writers Association, Nikon, The Blood-Horse, Turf Publicists of America and Visa Triple Crown Challenge. Churchill Downs Incorporated hosts the seminar and serves as its main sponsor.

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