Congratulations to these yearbook, newspaper and literary magazine students for these 119 awards won Thursday and Friday at the Arkansas Scholastic Press Association Convention in Little Rock.
Top awards in state:
Randy Rutherford – Administrator of the Year
Veronica Heatherly – Designer of the Year
Austin Esry – Runner up to Designer of the Year
Caitlynn Kimbrough – first runner up to Business Manager of the Year
Courtney Taylor — second runner up the Writer of the Year
Kelsey Kehrees – Photojournalist of the Year
Wil Chandler – First Runner up to Photojournalist of the Year
Monica Kuykendall – Second Runner up to Photojournalist of the Year
Courtney Taylor – third place for JEA Journalist of the Year[more]
For their work in the 2009 yearbook to be presented to the student body May 11, these students won awards:
Austin Esry – superior in student life copy, index layout, alternative coverage and theme development
Sophie Thompson – superior in club copy, club layout and student life layout
Melissa Schiffl – superior in academic copy, alternative coverage, people layout and theme development
Veronica Heatherly – superior in people copy, student life layout, people layout and club layout
Kayla Davidson – superior in sports layout
Meredith Scott – superior in sports copy
Kendall Butzlaff – superior in sports copy
Megan Childress – superior in academic layout
Kaitlin Hussey – superior in academic layout, theme development
Calitlynn Kimbrough – superior in ad layout
Gareth Patterson – superior in index layout and sports photo
Kelsey Kehrees – superior in student life photo
Monica Kuykendall – superior in academic photo
Wil Chandler – superior in club photo and theme photo
The 2009 Hornet yearbook received the top award in state, a superior in general excellence and the 2008 yearbook received the All Arkansas Award, designated it the top yearbook in state.
These students received awards for their work in this year’s school newspaper, the Prospective:
Tanner Ward – superior in news story
Brittany Huckaby – superior in feature story, sports news story, informational graphic and sports page design
Courtney Taylor – excellent in feature story, superior in editorial, personality profile, service to school and community
Catherine Gasaway – superior in column writing
Greg Womack – superior in sports column
Kelsey Kehrees – superior in news photo, feature photo, photo essay, centerspread design
Matt Trauschke – superior in sports photo
Gareth Patterson – superior in photo essay
Bria Hunt – superior in photo essay
Billie Jean Pitoynak – excellent in advertisement
Sarah Snyder – honorable mention in editorial cartoon
Anthony Blummel – superior in review writing and special section
Michaela Kaberline – superior in service to school and community and special section
Cayla Thompson – superior in special section
Katherine Hunt – superior in multicultural feature
Veronica Heatherly – superior in centerspread design, excellent in front page design
AJ Walker – superior in opinion page design
The school newspaper received an overall superior award and received the All Arkansas Award, designating it the top school newspaper in the state.
These students won awards for competitions held at the convention:
Sarah Snyder – second place in cartooning
Matt Johnson – second place in literary magazine poetry
Craig Wynn – second place in literary magazine essay
Stevie Svetz – first place in literary magazine short story
Emily Bass – first place in literary magazine personal narrative
Kari Henderson – first place in literary magazine design
Anthony Blummel – second place in newspaper review writing
Katherine Hunt – second place in newspaper interviewing/reporting
Michaela Kaberline – third place in newspaper design
Billie Jean Pitonyak – second place in newspaper advertising
Meredith Scott – second place in yearbook sports copy
Sophie Thompson – second place in yearbook people copy
Grace Oxley – third place in yearbook design
Mallory Gross – first place in two-weeks work – journalistic
Monica Kuykendall – first place in two-weeks work – artistic
Kelsey Kehrees – first place in photo story
Veronica Heatherly – first place in computer literary magazine design
AJ Walker – first place in computer newspaper advertising
Courtney Taylor – second place in computer newspaper design
Tanner Ward – first place in computer newspaper infographic
Emily Smith – second place in computer yearbook academic design
Kayla Davidson – first place in computer yearbook sports design
Emily Pilcher – first place in computer yearbook club design
Melissa Schiffl – second place in computer yearbook theme development
These students were names winners in the Arkansas Press Women’s annual contest:
Tanner Ward – second place in graphics, first place in news story, honorable mention in news story, first place in environmental coverage, third place in single page layout, honorable mention in single page layout
AJ Walker – third place in graphics, honorable mention in column writing
Brittany Huckaby – honorable mention in graphics
Courtney Taylor – third place in editorial writing, third place in opinion writing, honorable mention in column writing, second place in feature writing, third place in feature writing, second place in single page layout
Catherine Gasaway – honorable mention in opinion writing, third place in column writing
Katrina Ragsdale – first place in column writing
Katherine Hunt – honorable mention in column writing, two honorable mentions in feature writing
Anthony Blummel – honorable mention in review writing
Meredith Scott – honorable mention in sports story
Anna Moore – second place in environment coverage
Kelsey Kehrees – second place in feature photo
Gareth Patterson – honorable mention in feature photo, second place in sports photo
Veronica Heatherly – honorable mention in single page layout and two honorable mentions in double-truck layout.
Margaret Sorrows is the Bryant High School Journalism instructor and advisor.
Steve Glenn
Congratulations to all. It is truly inspiring to see what our young people and administration are accomplishing and the well deserved recoginition they are receiving. Go Hornets!