Onsite Results
Law
1st place -- Antonio Rosado, Florida A & M
History
1st place -- Regina Emery, Tennessee-Martin
media Ethics
1st place -- Valerie Thornewell and Lauren Redfield, West Florida
2nd place -- Abby Selden, Belmont
3rd place -- Kathleen DUncan, Louisiana Tech
photography
1st place -- Ben Corda, Louisiana Tech
2nd place -- Joslyn Rosado, West Florida
3rd place -- Topher Bostick, Southern Mississippi
News reporting
1st place -- Sarah Palmer, Union
2nd place -- Nicole Rogers, Louisiana-Lafayette
3rd place -- Brandon Keller, Nicholls
Copy editing
1st place -- Jessica Harris, West Florida
2nd place -- Chas Guidry, Nicholls
3rd place -- none awarded
Honorable Mention -- Katie Shatzer, Union
Newspaper layout
1st place -- Kyle Wrather, Mississippi State
Multimedia
1st place -- Mirian Longworth, Kaycee Lagarde and Hana Frenette, West Florida
2nd place -- Delilah Schmidt and Blake McCollum, Mississippi State
editorial
1st place -- Casey Ardoin, Louisiana Tech
2nd place -- Wendy Miller, Arkansas State
3rd place -- Mike Greear, West Florida
Honorable Mention -- Lexie Iskander, Louisiana-Lafayette
Sports Writing
1st place -- Nicholas Fontenot, Louisiana-Lafayette
2nd place -- Josh Lemons, Tennessee-Martin
3rd place -- Katelyn Thibodeaux, Nicholls
Honorable Mention -- Jason Smith, OleMiss
Feature Writing
1st place -- Ashley Faulkner, West Florida
2nd place -- Amanda Burleigh, Louisiana-Lafayette
3rd place -- Samantha Schott, Southern Mississippi
Honorable Mention -- Caroline Lee, Ole Miss
entertainment
1st place -- Robert Wilson, Louisiana Tech
2nd place -- Mike Blount, Southern Miss
3rd place -- Spencer Tayler, Tennessee-Martin
current events
1st place -- Dustin Evans, Middle Tennessee
2nd place -- Zane Hill, Louisiana-Lafayette
3rd place -- Randy Cavin, Tennessee-Martin
Honorable Mention -- Jessica Wethington, Louisiana Tech
radio news
1st place -- Kalup Phillips, Arkansas State
2nd place -- Oscar Pope, Ole Miss
3rd place -- Lauren Womack, Samford
broadcast Anchoring
1st place -- Kaitlin McCulley, Samford
2nd place -- Kristen Dressel, West Florida
3rd place -- Cameron Spann, Mississippi State
Honorable Mention -- Zachary Cuthirds, Ole Miss
broadcast packaging
1st place -- Ashley Phillps and Courtney Ann Jackson, Ole Miss
2nd place -- Tori Suttles and Nicholas Finch, West Alabama
Journalism Essay
1st place -- George Adams, West Florida
2nd place -- Blair Bordelon, Louisiana-Lafayette
public Relations
1st place -- Tiffany Williams, Travis Currie and Amanda Taft, West Florida
2nd place -- Josh Weiss and Layton Scarbrough, Tennessee-Martin
health reporting
1st place -- Alex McDaniel, Ole Miss
2nd place -- Jessica Walker, Belmont
3rd place -- Rebecca Barnhart, West Florida
news rewrite
1st place -- Diane Pantaleo, Louisiana-Lafayette
2nd place -- Samantha Hughes, East Carolina
3rd place -- Jesse Bass, Southern Miss
OVERALL STANDINGS
No. 1 -- West Florida
No. 2 -- Louisiana-Lafayette
No. 3 -- Louisiana Tech
No. 4 -- Ole Miss
No. 5 -- Tennessee-Martin
No. 6 -- Mississippi State
No. 7 -- Southern Mississippi
No. 8 (tie) -- Arkansas State
No. 8 (tie) -- West Alabama
No. 10 (tie) -- Nicholls
No. 10 (tie) -- Samford
Rules
Students may enter only one category . In addition, students must arrive on time to competitions with tickets that will be issued at registration. Please hold your ticket throughout the competition. You will turn in your ticket with your final product to your proctor.
Please check the site on Feb. 1 for further details for some of the categories. Some categories will provide topics in order that students may research prior to the conference.
Students who receive first place in a category will earn five points for their university. Second place earns three points; third place earns two points. Honorable mention will earn the university one point. At the end of the competition, the university with the most points will win first place overall for the 2010 Southeast Journalism Conference.
