Rockhurst High School

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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