At the centennial Southern Interscholastic Press Association convention in Columbia, S.C. on March 3, SIPA officials announced that the Shield had won the Scroggins Award (Best of the South) as the association’s top print newspaper for the third year in a row. Counting the Shield’s Scroggins Award win for its online newspaper in 2021, and the Shield has a four-year streak of being named the single best SIPA publication in one of the association’s awarded categories.
SIPA also announced the winners of its 2024 Best Visuals competition. The Shield newspaper staff and contributing digital media students combined to win 57 awards across seven categories: advertising (2), art/graphic/illustration (4), broadcast (2), newsmagazine (17), online (16), photography (10) and social media (6).
To celebrate our success, we’d like to present our photo winners (although some we are not sure about) as this week’s special Spring Break edition Tuesday Top 10.
2024 SIPA Spring Convention Awards
Announced Sunday, March 3 at the SIPA Spring Convention.
SCROGGINS AWARD-BEST OF SOUTH
Newsprint
The Shield
SIPA’s BEST VISUALS
Photography
Club
First place – Beatrix Lozach, “Friendly fire for a good cause”
Creative group shot
Second place – Naomi Di-Capua, “Buffalo Soldiers”
First-year student
First place – Josie Linton, “Higher than the Highlanders”
Illustration
Third place – Sophie Leung-Lieu, “Carlson answers call for new leadership”
News
First place – Beatrix Lozach, “End the siege of Gaza,” or “Standing with Israel”
Second place – Julia Copas, “Rain on their parade”
Sports
Second place – Julia Copas, “A duel at dusk,” or “Eyes on the prize”
Sports reaction
First place – Julia Copas, “A queen and her court,” “A win for the books,” or “Roles reversed,”
Second place – Julia Copas, “A queen and her court,” “A win for the books,” or “Roles reversed,”
Student life
Second place – Ingrid Smith, “Major pom to ground control”
Social media
Promotion
First place – Sophie Leung-Lieu, “Social media promotion portfolio”
Sports Coverage
First place – Julia Copas, “Julia Copas SIPA Submission”
Second place – Nate Williams, “Nate Williams Social Media Portfolio”
Portfolio
First place – Naomi Di-Capua, “Naomi Di-Capua SIPA portfolio”
Second place – Chloe Lewcock, “Chloe Lewcock 2023-2024 Social Media Portfolio”
Third place – Francie Wilhelm, “Francie Wilhelm social media portfolio”
Advertising
Community/business ad
First place – Julia Copas and Maya Tackett, “Breakaway Records print newspaper ad”
Online advertisement
First place – Julia Copas and Maya Tackett, “Breakaway Records online banner ad”
Art/Graphic/Illustration
Editorial cartoon
Second Place – Sophie Leung-Lieu, “Our planet needs a plan”
Third Place – Ruby Cerda, “Set up for rejection”
Illustration
Second place – Ruby Cerda, “AI brings Beatles from ‘then’ to ‘now’”
Infographic
Third place – Francie Wilhelm, “Knights thrive thanks to timeless talent”
Broadcast
Human interest
Third place – Alice Scott, “McCallum: 70 years later” or “The key equals confidence”
Hype video
Second place – Julia Copas, “McCallum Knights vs. LBJ Jaguars, 1-16-24” or “McCallum Knights vs. LBJ Jaguars, Dec. 5, 2023”
Newsmagazine
Entertainment package
Third place – Sophie Leung-Lieu, “Stepping into McCallum”
Feature package
Third place – Chloe Lewcock, “Carson finds new spotlight”
Headline package
Second place – Sophie Leung-Lieu, “Songwriting strikes a chord”
In-depth cover story
First place – Francie Wilhelm, “Knights thrive thanks to timeless talent”
Second place – Lanie Sepehri, “Fresh blood in the front office”
Third place – Alice Scott, “Ballet folklórico: un club historico y educacional”
News package
First place – Mira Patel, “Near misses cause concern,” or “Central Texas wildfire risk increases due to high heat”
Second place – Alice Scott, “Baxa’s first 100 days”
Third place – Mira Patel, “Near misses cause concern,” or “Central Texas wildfire risk increases due to high heat”
OP/ED package
First place – Shila Gill, “No thanks to Thanksgiving”
Second place – Nate Williams, “Swinging into the future”
Sports package
First place – Lanie Sepehri, “Vaulting over the hurdles” or “Issue 3 sports briefs”
Third place – Sophie Leung-Lieu, “Carlson answers call for new leadership”
Table of contents page
First place – Caroline Owen, “Issue 1 table of contents,” or “Issue 3 table of contents”
Second place – Francie Wilhelm, “Issue 2 table of contents”
Newsmagazine portfolio
First place – Sophie Leung-Lieu, “Portfolio”
Second place – Alice Scott, “Portfolio”
Online
Computer graphics
First place – Maya Tackett, “Seniors cast their first votes”
Third place – Sofia Saucedo, “Desde el campo hasta el escenario”
Digital storytelling
Second place – Alice Scott, “Seventy years ago today”
Features package
First place – Maggie Mass & Sofia Saucedo, “Alumnus takes Manhattan”
News package
Second place – Lance Sepehri, “597 days later, Austin Ukrainians keep fighting”
Opinion package
First place – Kyan Adams, “Saving our dying planet by proxy”
Second place – Noah Braun, “Live and let go”
Third place – Noah Braun, “Carelessness or callousness costs lives”
Photo gallery
First place – JoJo Barnard, Julia Copas, Gaby Esquivel, Shila Gill, Evelyn Jenkins, Chloe Lewcock, Helen Martin, Maggie Mass, Caroline Owen, Alice Scott, and Lanie Sepehri, “Battle of the Bands offers mosh to be proud of”
Second place – JoJo Barnard, Shila Gill, Evelyn Jenkins, Chloe Lewcock, Beatrix Lozach, Josie Mullan, and Alice Scott, “Mac celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month”
Third place – JoJo Barnard, Morgan Eye, August Gleason, Evelyn Jenkins, Chloe Lewcock, Helen Martin, Sofia Saucedo, Chloe Seckar-Martinez, Maya Tackett, Priya Thoppil, and Camilla Vandegrift, “Win, lose or draw (actually all three)”
Photo story
First place – Sophia Lopez, “A satisfying return to ‘a 7-year-old’s dream world”’
Second place – JoJo Barnard, Julia Copas, Naomi Di-Capua, Chloe Lewcock, Alice Scott, Lanie Sepehri, Ingrid Smith, and Maya Tackett, “Some things borrowed, some things new, but all things Taco Shack still McCallum blue”
Online portfolio
First place – Francie Wilhelm, “SIPA Visual Contest online portfolio”
Second place – Noah Braun, “SIPA Visual Contest online portfolio”
Third place – Maya Tackett, “SIPA Visual Contest online portfolio”