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Journalism Students Earn State, National Honors

Students on Rockhurst's newspaper staff, Prep News Online, earned state and national recognition for their writing and photography work during the 2025-26 academic year.

Honorees included: 

All-Missouri (Top 10% of entries in a category):
Logan Filing '27 - News Photo (Fr. Carlos Esparza, SJ and Fr. Stephen Kramer, SJ)
 
Superior (Top 20%):
Elliot Thomas '27 - Sports Action Photo (Football tackle photo)
Ethan Erwin '27 - Newspaper Sports Writing
Quinn Condon '26 - Newspaper Sports Writing
Prep News Staff: Online Overall - prepnewsonline.com
 
Excellent (Top 30%)
Ivan Burns '26 - Online Story Package 
Jack Sprague '27 - News Photo (Student prayer photo)
 
Honorable Mention (Top 40%)
Elliot Thomas '27 - Sports Action Photo (Football celebration photo)
 
 
Two students were also selected as Finalists for National Contests:
Jake Bond '26 - News Writing 
Jack Grisolano '27 - Sports Game/Event Writing 

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