Publications take awards in state competition

Kaitlin Harrison

Looking at examples– War Whoop editor senior Dusty Barron looks at yearbook examples at the Interscholastic League Press Conference on May 4.

Four publications combined for 53 awards at Interscholastic League Press Conference statewide competition on May 3-4 at the University of Texas in Austin.

The War Whoop newspaper took an Award of Distinguished Merit overall. Jessenia Balderas took a Tops in Texas for the best sports action photo in the state of Texas middle school through 6A.

The newspaper took 16 individual awards in statewide 4A competition.

In news writing, Jessenia Balderas took an honorable mention.

In news feature writing, Dusty Barron took an honorable mention.

In entertainment review writing, Dusty Barron and Jayton Sales took second.

In photo story, the team of Jessenia Balderas and Jaina Clark took honorable mention.

In personal column writing, Dusty Barron took honorable mention.

In sports column writing, Jasmin Klassen took third.

In in-depth news/feature package, Dusty Barron and staff took honorable mention.

In infographics/sidebar, the War Whoop staff took third and honorable mention both.

In cartoon, Sydney Gonzales took honorable mention.

In sports  page design, Jasmin Klassen and Jessenia Balderas took third.

In feature photo, Jessenia Balderas took third.

In sports action photo, Jessenia Balderas took first and also honorable mention.

In sports feature photo, Melissa Moore took third.

In photo portfolio, Jessenia Balderas took first.

The online newspaper, warwhooponline.com took an Award of Distinguished Merit overall.

The online newspaper took 19 awards in statewide 4A competition.

In news writing, Dustie Beaubien took third and Kaitlin Harrison took honorable mention.

In news feature writing, Dusty Barron took first.

In sports news story, Jessenia Balderas took first and Jasmin Klassen took second.

In feature writing, Jessenia Balderas took third.

In entertainment review, Dusty Barron took second and Bradley Everett took honorable mention.

In photo slide show, the team of Jasmin Klassen, Melissa Moore and Jocelyn Gonzales took second.

In personal column writing, Bradley Everett took third.

In sports column writing, Jasmin Klassen took third.

In student artwork/cartoon Jayton Sales took third.

In feature photo, Alayna Amen took first.

In entertainment photo, Kaitlin Harrison took first.

In sports action photo, Jocelyn Gonzales took second and Alayna Amen was third.

In sports feature photo, Jessenia Balderas was third.

In portrait photography,  Jocelyn Gonzales was third.

The 2017-18 Tepee yearbook took 18 individual awards in statewide 4A competition.

In theme selection and development, Katie Spradlin, Cade Thomas and Anna Teichroeb took honorable mention.

In captions, Cade Thomas took third.

In headlines the staff took first.

In student life spread, Dustie Beaubien took honorable mention.

In sports spread, Jasmin Klassen took second.

In class spread, Anna Teichroeb took honorable mention.

In club/organization spread, Cade Thomas took second and also honorable mention.

In infographics, Dusty Barron took honorable mention.

In student life feature story, Dusty Barron took third.

In academic feature story, Jessenia Balderas took first and Cassey Thiessen took second.

In sports feature story, Katie Spradlin took third.

In sports action photo, Melissa Moore took honorable mention.

In student life photo, Jessenia Balderas took second and Melissa Moore took honorable mention.

In club/organization photo, Kaitlin Harrison took honorable mention.

In photo portfolio, Jessenia Balderas took second.

The BEAT broadcast took one individual statewide 4A award.

In general news story, Jayton Sales took third.