WKU Student Newspaper
Honored At State Competition
March 06, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - The College Heights Herald, Western Kentucky University's student newspaper, received the most awards in the Kentucky Intercollegiate
Press Association's annual competition.
The Herald won 10 firsts, 13 seconds, 13 thirds and 11 honorable mentions. Other competitors in Division A were Kentucky, Murray State, Morehead State, Northern Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky.
First-place winners from the Herald were Mai Hoang, a Louisville junior, news story; Beth Sewell, a senior from Evansville, Ind., analysis and special reports; Brandy Warren, a Louisville junior, opinion pages; Kyle Hightower, a Paducah junior, sports feature; H. Rick Mach, a senior from Sterling, Va., original illustrations; Ed Linsmeier, a sophomore from Saxe, Va., news photograph; Jeremy Lyverse, a Prospect senior, sports photograph; Steven King, a junior from Pelham, Ala., photo essay; Michael Reuter, a Bowling Green senior, advertising copy; and online staff, inside page.
Finishing second were Abbey Brown, a senior from Vincennes, Ind., feature story; Kyle Tucker, a senior from Clarksville, Tenn., sports game story; Keith Farner, a
Louisville junior, sports feature; Stephanie Gladney, a LaGrange senior, front page layout; Ryan Clark, a Louisville senior, sports page layout; staff, best special section; staff, overall Web site and home page; Cassandra Shie, a graduate from Sterling, Va., original illustrations; Thomas Cordy, a senior from Huntsville, Ala., news photograph; Josh Brown, a Bowling Green senior, feature photograph; Mach, sports photograph; and Price Chambers, a Bowling Green senior, photo essay.
Third-place recipients were Joe Lord, a Louisville junior, investigative reporting; Warren, analysis and special reports; Caroline Lynch, a graduate from Louisville, opinion pages; Micheal Compton, a Bowling Green junior, sports news story; Clark, sports column and front page layout; Erica Walsh, a Louisville senior, feature page layout; Gladney, sports page layout; Sang-Hyuck Park, a Bowling Green senior, original illustrations; Nina Greipel, a Louisville senior, feature photograph; Linsmeier and James Branaman, a Bowling Green senior, photo essay; Matt Rountree, an Elizabethtown senior, house ad and advertising art.
Garnering honorable mentions were Sewell and Walsh, feature story; Farner,
sports game story; Michael Casagrande, a Louisville freshman, sports news story;
J. Michael Moore, a junior from Franklin, Tenn., and Lyndsay Sutton, a graduate from Shelbyville, sports feature; Henrik Edsenius, a senior from West Des Moines, Iowa, news photograph and feature photograph; John Lok, a graduate from Seattle, Wash., feature photograph; Ensenius, Linsmeier, Bowling Green junior Rodrick Reidsma, Samuel Simpkins, a sophomore from Nashville, Tenn., and Bowling Green sophomore Chris Suefer, photo essay.
Louisville senior Rex Hall Jr. finished third in the deadline editing competition and Mayfield freshman Jessica Sasseen was third in the deadline writing contest at the annual convention in Covington Feb. 28-March 1.
For more information, contact Robert Adams, Herald adviser, at (270) 745-6278. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
