Wednesday, April 30, 2003 | 8:46 a.m.
A Green Valley High School junior won Student Journalist of the Year honors from the CLASS! High School Journalism Awards in a year in which the program added thousands of dollars in scholarships as well as awards for broadcast journalism.
Stephanie Espinoza was named the best student journalist in the contest, which attracted 440 entries from 23 public and private schools throughout Clark County. The awards were to be presented today at the Clark County Library Theater by CLASS! Publications, a nonprofit monthly publication for, by and about local high school students.
Along with the Student of the Year honors, Espinoza won a $500 scholarship. Seven other students were given scholarships: Ivete Aldaba of Clark won the $10,000 Sandy Thompson Memorial Award, donated by the Greenspun Corp., owned by the Greenspun family, who publish the Las Vegas Sun.
Vaneh Movsessian of Palo Verde and Leah Paraso of Community College North received the $4,000 MGM MIRAGE Diversity Awards. Paula Rigoli of Coronado won the $2,000 CLASS! Founders Award. Marites Velasquez of Las Vegas Academy and Lina Hernandez of Las Vegas High won the $500 MGM MIRAGE Achievement Awards. Susan Dons of Cheyenne received the $500 MGM MIRAGE Merit Award.
The Vo-Tech broadcast news team won the first award for Broadcast News.
The establishment of the awards "is an indication of how broadcasting as an area of study may grow in the future, if the funding is there to let it happen," Maureen McDonough, assistant director of CLASS! Publications, said.
JOURNALISM AWARDS
Broadcast news
First Place: Vo-Tech Broadcast Staff; Second Place: Chelsea Barnard and Alex Priputen of Palo Verde; Third Place: Michelle Cole and Pedro Ivli of Palo Verde, Honorable Mention: Coronado High School.
Broadcast feature
First Place: (tie) Mike Bailey of Coronado and Sean Schumacher of Palo Verde; Third Place: Sean Skottey of Vo-Tech, Honorable Mentions: Ryan Johnson and Jenna Cassell of Palo Verde, and Brian Duggan and Lou Magelowitz of Silverado.
Broadcast sports
First Place: Mike Bailey of Coronado; Second Place: Amanda Derick of Coronado; Third Place: Ben Herman and Ryan Johnson of Palo Verde; Honorable Mention: Bryan Vogel of Coronado High School.
News writing
First Place: (tie) Alexis Burke of Sierra Vista and Toya Young of Las Vegas High; Third Place: Lesley Davis of Eldorado; Honorable Mentions: Yesenia Pena of Mojave and Crystal Macaspac of Sierra Vista.
Feature writing
First Place: Jeriann Martin of Eldorado; Second Place: Megan O'Neil of Green Valley; Third Place: Angela Jupp of Green Valley; Honorable Mentions: David Ingenito of Bishop Gorman and Brady Johnson of Las Vegas Academy.
Editorial writing
First Place: April Corbin of Las Vegas High; Second Place: Caitlin McGarr of Centennial; Third Place: Heather Trujillo of Green Valley; Honorable Mentions: Johnny Driggs of Coronado and Cassandra Stringer of Las Vegas High.
Column writing
First Place: Jesus Cruz of Sierra Vista; Second Place: Jennifer Mannella of Sierra Vista; Third Place: Jeriann Martin of Eldorado; Honorable Mentions: Kirsten Beinke of Sierra Vista and Annie Flanzraich of Las Vegas Academy.
Review writing
First Place: Natalie Minev of Centennial; Second Place: Greg Johnson of Centennial; Third Place: Lori Faber and Angela Jupp of Green Valley; Honorable Mentions: Nick Snow of Green Valley and Annie Flanzraich of Las Vegas Academy.
Nonschool publication
First Place: Julez Rodionova of Durango; Second Place: (tie), Nur Kausar of Durango and Rachel Hommel of Green Valley; Honorable Mentions: Heather Trujillo of Green Valley and Caitlin McGarry of Centennial.
Sports feature writing
First Place: Jeriann Martin of Eldorado; Second Place: Alex Belmares of Palo Verde; Third Place: Ali Smallwood of Coronado; Honorable Mentions: Amishi Desai of The Meadows School and Michelle Leffingwell of Basic High School.
Sports news writing
First Place: Heather Garner of Palo Verde; Second Place: Alexis Burke of Sierra Vista; Third Place: Alex Belmares of Palo Verde; Honorable Mentions: Mallory Baker of Mojave and Jeriann Martin of Eldorado.
Sports photography
First Place: Colleen Bill of Eldorado; Second Place: Chauntel Leavitt of Las Vegas High; Third Place: Kaila Hart of Centennial; Honorable Mentions: Carl Neitzert of Green Valley and Amishi Desai, The Meadows School.
Nonsports photography
First Place: Kaila Hart of Centennial; Second Place: Jennifer Mannella of Sierra Vista; Third Place:Jeriann Martin of Eldorado; Honorable Mentions: Jessica Felix of Green Valley and Carl Neitzert of Green Valley.
Art and illustration
First Place: Marcus Nelson of Centennial; Second Place: Rory Glass of Green Valley; Third Place: Kevin Ignacio of Coronado; Honorable Mentions: Aaron Miller of The Meadows School and Noah Tyson of Las Vegas High.
Editorial cartooning
First Place: Lindsay Dever of Bishop Gorman; Second Place: Mark Russell of The Meadows School; Third Place: Noah Tyson of Las Vegas High; Honorable Mentions: Christine Han of Las Vegas Academy and Alex Krumins of Faith Lutheran.
Front-page layout
First Place: Lori Faber of Green Valley; Second Place: Megan Wells of Centennial; Third Place: David Ingenito of Bishop Gorman; Honorable Mentions: Aaron Miller of The Meadows School and Jeriann Martin of Eldorado.
Issue-tabloid format
First Place: InvestiGator Staff of Green Valley; Second Place: Season Purcell and Conor Kane of Centennial; Third Place: Stacy Dockery and Rebecca Hanna of Palo Verde; Honorable Mentions: Alexis Burke of Sierra Vista and Melia Smith of Las Vegas High.
Issue-reduced format
First Place: Jeriann Martin of Eldorado; Second Place: Eric Alder and Mallory Baker of Mojave; Third Place: David Ingenito of Bishop Gorman; Honorable Mentions: Jeana O'Laughlin of Moapa Valley and April Baker and Samantha Serrano of Basic.
Educators
Journalism advisers of the year: Kathy Fick of Western and April Powell of Las Vegas High.
Principal of the Year: Sue Daellenbach of Foothill.
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