Writing, Photo, and Multimedia Winners

McCallum High School, Maize Career Academy, and Adlai E. Stevenson High School earn top overall awards

McCallum High School, Austin, Texas, Maize Career Academy of Maize, Kansas, and Adlai E. Stevenson High School of Lincolnshire, Illinois, won the first, second, and third places, respectively, in the 2023 Quill and Scroll Writing, Photo, and Multimedia contest.

These and the individual awards will be handout out Saturday morning during the Quill and Scroll Awards Ceremony at the JEA/NSPA Spring Convention in San Francisco.

In addition, the the contest awards the top performing staffs in three separate areas: Writing and Photography/Design and Multimedia. Here are those winners:

Writing: 

First Place: McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Second Place: Adlai E. Stevenson High School of Lincolnshire, Illinois

Third Place: St. John’s School, Houston, Texas

Photography/Design: 

First Place: Richland R-1, Essex, Missouri

Second Place: McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Third Place (tie):

Huntley High School, Huntley, Illinois

Marquette High School, Chesterfield, Missouri

Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas

Multimedia: 

First Place: Maize Career Academy of Maize, Kansas

Second Place: Gulliver Preparatory Upper School, Pinecrest, Florida

Third Place: McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Here is the full awards list:

Writing

Category 1 — News Writing

First Place: Isabelle Blasdel, Jade Pharis, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Kansas

Second Place: Aran Sonnad-Joshi, Midtown High School, Atlanta, Georgia

Third Place: Allen You, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Honorable Mentions:

Charlie Fee, Sophia Lopez, Henry Pratt, Ben Luka Sheddrick, Archie Williams High School, San Anselmo, California

Lucy Halverson, Julia Moser, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Abby Jacobs, Brimmer and May School, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Alyssa Brown, Lauren Devereux, Kendall Westgate, Eisenhower High School, Shelby Township, Michigan

Carlos Hernandez, Maine West High School, Des Plaines, Illinois

Justice Jones, Nixa High School, Nixa, Missouri 

Mary Corkery, Rockwood Summit High School, Fenton, Missouri

Tali Liebenthal, Shalhevet High School, Los Angeles, California

Ava Savino, Trinity Preparatory School, Winter Park, Florida

Category 2 — DEI, Social Justice Writing

First Place: Collin Fan, Sriya Mamidanna, Rajan Sukhatme, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Second Place: Tali Liebenthal, Shalhevet High School, Los Angeles, California

Third Place: Rachel Bui, Collin Fan, Angela Guo, Shannon Moser, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Honorable Mentions:

Royce Brown, Chenyao Liu, Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana

Jui Bhatia, Aren Framil, Soumya Sathynarayana, Conestoga High School, Berwyn, Pennsylvania

Samantha Powers, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Category 3 — Feature Writing

First Place: Katya Dubinin, Gaurish Lakanpal, Lance Locker, Dayna Roberts, Ananya Tak, Nicole Yao, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Second Place: Morgan Cook, Wando High School, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Third Place: Lucy Halverson, Julia Moser, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Honorable Mentions:

Madeline Terry, Brownsboro High School, Brownsboro, Texas

Lorna Ding, Claire He, Carmel High School, Caramel, Indiana

Lorna Ding, Pahal Sehgal, Carmel High School, Caramel, Indiana

Bridget Johnson, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Kansas

Sophie Leung-Lieu, Lanie Sepehri, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Sophie Leung-Lieu, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Reena Alsakaji, Josephine Mittelberger, Munster High School, Munster, Indiana

Nidhi Pejathaya, Parkway West High School, Ballwin, Missouri

Nora Vedder, Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas

Caroline Wood, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas

Category 4 —Profile Writing

First Place: Allen You, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Second Place: Jessy Gone, Huntley High School, Huntley, Illinois

Third Place: Ingrid Smith, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Honorable Mentions:

Kacey Miller, Cedar Park High School, Cedar Park, Texas

Zaira Ahmed, Iowa City West High School, Iowa City, Iowa

Amaya Collier, Francie Wilhelm, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Alice Scott, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Category 5 — Staff Editorial Writing

First Place: TKC Staff, Kirkwood High School, Kirkwood, Missouri

Second Place: Avi Litvak, Shalhevet High School, Los Angeles, California

Third Place: Gator Editorial Board, Brimmer and May School, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Honorable Mentions:

Jennifer Huang, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Caroline Owen, Alice Scott, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Category 6 — Review Writing

First Place: Ingrid Smith, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Second Place: Philipos Alebachew, Southwest Career and Technical Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada

Third Place: Gaby Esquivel, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Honorable Mentions:

Layne Barnes, Bloomington South High School, Bloomington, Indiana

Marlie Kass, Brimmer and May School, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Sim Khanuja, Kirkwood High School, Kirkwood, Missouri

Abbott Lackey, Rockwood Summit High School, Fenton, Missouri

Lucy Walker, St. John’s School, Houston, Texas

Category 7 — Column Writing — Non-Sports

First Place: Samantha Bustamante, Rialto High School, Rialto, California

Second Place: Violet Newton, Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Missouri

Third Place: Inna Voloshchuk, Wando High School, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Honorable Mentions:

Angela Guo, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Carol Xu, Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, California

Truman Daleke, Bloomington South High School, Bloomington, Indiana

Anna Bailey, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Kassidy Wilkinson, Cedar Park High School, Cedar Park, Texas

Ana La Rosa Grillo, Kingwood Park High School, Kingwood, Texas

Riley Coates, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Evie Barnard, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Serena Liu, Parkway West High School, Ballwin, Missouri

Elliot Serure, Shalhevet High School, Los Angeles, California

Ren Park, Shawnee Mission South High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Felix Wach, The British School in The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands

Aseel Ibrahim, Wando High School, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Category 8 — Sports Column Writing

First Place: Sophie Lindberg, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas

Second Place: Serina Yan, St. John’s School, Houston, Texas

Third Place: Anna Newland, Kirkwood High School, Kirkwood, Missouri

Category 9 — In-Depth Reporting/Individual Writing 

First Place: Aleena Gilani, St. John’s School, Houston, Texas

Second Place: Lily Feather, St. John’s School, Houston, Texas

Third Place: Tali Liebenthal, Shalhevet High School, Los Angeles, California

Category 10 — In-Depth Reporting/Team Writing

First Place: Katya Dubinin, Gaurish Lakanpal, Lance Locker, Dayna Roberts, Ananya Tak, Nicole Yao, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Second Place: Andrei Badulescu, Sabrina Bukvarevic, Caiden Claussen, Caitlyn Claussen, Karolina Glowa, Salma Hassab, Michelle Kaner, Aleksandra Majewski, Timea Matavova, Mohnish Soni, Carlos Hernandez-Hernandez, Thomas Noonan, Teagan O’Connor, Daniel Solomon, Gabby Szewczyk, Zonna Todorovska, Maine West High School, Des Plaines, Illinois

Third Place: Alex Drum, Anisha Mandem, Kaya Miller, Neena Sidhu, Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas

Honorable Mentions:

Tarek Al Husseini, Max Eastman, Arti Jain, Annie Zhao, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Category 11 — Sports Feature Writing

First Place: Arleigh Doehring, Kingwood Park High School, Kingwood, Texas

Second Place: Rhea Patney, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Third Place: Katie Murphy, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas

Honorable Mentions:

Kinsey Durham, Brownsboro High School, Brownsboro, Texas

Abby Panier, Huntley High School, Huntley, Illinois

Lucy Marco, Alysa Spiro, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Grace Nugent, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

David Steinberg, Trinity Preparatory School, Winter Park, Florida

Category 12 — Sports Game/Event Coverage

First Place: Fallon Head, Kingwood Park High School, Kingwood, Texas

Second Place: Hannah Rakolta, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Third Place: Heidi Williams, Cedar Park High School, Cedar Park, Texas

Honorable Mentions:

Alyssa Gagnon, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Irene Banerjee, Huntley High School, Huntley, Illinois

Category 13 — Political Writing

First Place: Addison Bussell, Analyce Craft, Alexis Gleim, Ravneet Kaur, Parker Mutter, Noblesville High School, Noblesville, Indiana

Second Place: Audrija Ghosh, Parkway West High School, Ballwin, Missouri 

Third Place: Disha Kumar, Melissa Liu, Sydney Mulford, Northview High School, Johns Creek, Georgia

Honorable Mentions:

Joshua Gamson, Sonya Katzen, Shalhevet High School, Los Angeles, California

Annie Jones, St. John’s School, Houston, Texas

Category 14 — Health, Science, and Agriculture Writing

First Place: Hadley Hoskins, Webster Groves High School, Webster Groves, Missouri

Second Place: Aleena Gilani, St. John’s School, Houston, Texas

Third Place: Lorna Ding, Arya Pinnamaneni, Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana

Category 15 — Climate and Environment Writing

First Place: Evan Michaeli, Brimmer and May School, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Second Place: Justin Brewer, Morgan Chairs, Macy Cronin, Chloe Ellison, Ray Hathcock, McKenna Hudson, Violet Newton, Peter Pae, Alex Thomas, Olivia Van Horn, Amber Winkler, Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Missouri

Third Place: Grace Kassebaum, Minnehaha Academy, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Visuals/Photo

Category 16 — News Feature Photography

First Place: Claire Boyle, Richland R-1, Essex, Missouri

Second Place: Amy Luttrell, Greenwood Community High School, Greenwood, Indiana

Third Place: Kayley Munoz, Rialto High School, Rialto, California

Honorable Mentions:

Marissa Finney, Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana

Devani Bradley, Duncanville High School, Duncanville, Texas

Gergő Major, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Kayla Riddley, Minnehaha Academy, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Category 17 – Sports Action Photography

First Place: McKenna McBroom, Richland R-1, Essex, Missouri

Second Place: Riley McConnell, Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas

Third Place: Lillian Gray, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Honorable Mentions:

Lila Vancrum, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Eli Baker, Duncanville High School, Duncanville, Texas

Carter Smith, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Kansas

Shyam Punnachalil, Marquette High School, Chesterfield, Missouri

Julia Copas, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

John Misa, Minnehaha Academy, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Macy Crosser, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas

Sasha Libenzon, Wayland High School, Wayland, Massachusetts

Category 18 – Sports Reaction Photography

First Place: Scarlett Lewis, Wando High School, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Second Place: Carter Eaton, Richland R-1, Essex, Missouri

Third Place: Devani Bradley, Duncanville High School, Duncanville, Texas

Honorable Mentions:

Coco Legrand, Kirkwood High School, Kirkwood, Missouri

Naomi Di-Capua, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Category 19 — Photo Illustration

First Place: Mac Huffman, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Second Place: Nathank Wituk, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Kansas

Third Place: Daniel Lara Limardo, Gulliver Preparatory Upper School, Pinecrest, Florida

Honorable Mentions:

Isabella Objio, Miami Arts Studio 6-12 @ Zelda Glazer, Miami, Florida

Category 20 — Photo Slideshow

First Place: Asher Midgley, Marquette High School, Chesterfield, Missouri

Second Place: Staff, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Third Place: Riley McConnell, Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas

Category 21 — Profile or Environmental Portrait

First Place: Allie Corlew, Richland R-1, Essex, Missouri

Second Place: Katie Walsh, Huntley High School, Huntley, Illinois

Third Place: Chloe Lewcock, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Honorable Mentions:

Maya Ortiz, Kingwood Park High School, Kingwood, Texas

Visuals/Design

Category 22 — Editorial Cartoon

First Place: Paige Natindim, Saint Viator High School, Arlington Heights, Illinois

Second Place: Kai Kirkham Macias, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Third Place: Yuli (Elaine) Qiang, United World College Changshu China, Changshu, China

Category 23 – Informational Graphic

First Place: Olivia Chen, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Second Place: Adya Burdick, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas

Third Place: Siena Griffin, Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan, Old Tappan, New Jersey

Honorable Mentions:

Chloe Ellison, Violet Newton, Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Missouri

Alexa Rondez, Southwest Career and Technical Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada

Category 24 — News Magazine Front Page Design

First Place: Jennifer Huang, Shannon Moser, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Second Place: Evie Barnard, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Third Place: Evie Barnard, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Honorable Mentions:

Kvana Achar, Kyla Ulug, University Preparatory Academy, San Jose, California

Category 25 — Newspaper Front Page Design

First Place: Tehilla Fishman, Shalhevet High School, Los Angeles, California

Second Place: Dorothy Lakshmanamurthy, Josephine Mittelberger, Damien Salahieh, Munster High School, Munster, Indiana

Third Place: Sydney Jones, Marianna Young, Munster High School, Munster, Indiana

Category 26 — Features Page(s) Design, Single Page

First Place: Adya Burdick, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas

Second Place: Abbott Lackey, Rockwood Summit High School, Fenton, Missouri

Third Place: Zoe Clark, Anna Evilsizor, Munster High School, Munster, Indiana

Honorable Mentions:

Serina Yan, St. John’s School, Houston, Texas

Category 27 — Features Page(s) Design, Two-Page Spread

First Place: Noel Mohamed, Shawnee Mission South High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Second Place: Will Cheng, Iowa City West High School, Iowa City, Iowa

Third Place: Regan Simeon, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Honorable Mentions:

Avery Sigg, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Anika Talyan, Marquette High School, Chesterfield, Missouri

Evie Barnard, Alice Scott, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Tehilla Fishman, Ezra Helfand, Shalhevet High School, Los Angeles, California

April Nguyen, University Preparatory Academy, San Jose, California

Category 28 — Sports Page(s) Design

First Place: Carter Smith, Grant Waggoner, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Kansas

Second Place: Sophie Leung-Lieu, Alice Scott, Francie Wilhelm, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas

Third Place: Mac Huffman, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri

Category 29 — Editorial Page(s) Design

First Place: Elizabeth Yuan, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Second Place: Sim Khanuja, Kirkwood High School, Kirkwood, Missouri

Third Place: Jennifer Huang, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Illinois

Multimedia

Category 30 — Video News Package

First Place: Maya Altman, Matilda Ohana, Sarah Shapiro, Gulliver Preparatory Upper School, Pinecrest, Florida

Second Place: Tyler Whitfield, Dominion High School, Sterling, Virginia

Third Place: Haley Barnard, Sydney Lampkin, Kinsley Morrison, Stahley Sears, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Kansas

Honorable Mentions:

Rhianna Li, Marquette High School, Chesterfield, Missouri

Category 31 — Video Sports Package

First Place: Sierra Tinsley, Sam White, Lakin Zamorano, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Kansas

Second Place: Alivia Ozbun, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Overland Park, Kansas

Third Place: Coleman Meier, Kace Spears, Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas

Category 32 — Video Features Package

First Place: Christina Krasnova, Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas

Second Place: Maya Altman, Miranda De Armas, Amelie Santini, Ava Seymour, Gulliver Preparatory Upper School, Pinecrest, Florida

Third Place: Miranda De Armas, Camila Figueroa, MJ Lopez, Ava Seymour, Gulliver Preparatory Upper School, Pinecrest, Florida

Category 33 — Video DEI, Social Justice Reporting

First Place: Cassie Sun, Marquette High School, Chesterfield, Missouri

Second Place: Allison Wood, Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas

Third Place: Noah Byer, Ella Stillings, Emma Stillings, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Kansas

Category 34 — Documentary Video

First Place: Eugene Yoo, Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York

Second Place: Anna Coiras, Adriana Diaz, Miami Arts Studio 6-12 @ Zelda Glazer, Miami, Florida

Third Place: Ashley Henderson, Argyle High School, Argyle, Texas

Category 35 — Audio Podcast: Single Episode

First Place: Danielle Haynes, Ritenour High School, St. Louis. Misso

Second Place: Greta Gustafson, Midtown High School, Atlanta, Georgia

Third Place: Hadley Hoskins, Sam Klein, Webster Groves High School, Webster Groves, Missouri

Honorable Mentions:

Ava Tebo, Kirkwood High School, Kirkwood, Missouri

Category 36 – Interactive Informational Graphic

First Place: Kent Fujita, Grace Guo, Darshini Shankar, Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana

Second Place: Ethan Blastick, Kent Fujita, Grace Guo, Jane Martens, Maggie Meyer, Ayaan Nadeem, Caitlin Follman, Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana

Third Place: Ashlyn Gillespie, Parkway West High School, Ballwin, Missouri

Category 37 — News Show

First Place: RaiderVision Staff, Gulliver Preparatory Upper School, Pinecrest, Florida

Second Place: Sarah Conner, Jaden Hutton, Chance Koopmann, Stahley Sears, Ella Stillings, Lakin Zamorano, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Kansas

Third Place: EagleAir TV, Nixa High School, Nixa, Missouri

Category 38 — Multimedia Feature/News Package

First Place: Katie Murphy, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas

Second Place: Alexis Baty, Leah Brown, Dylan Christopher, Bridget Johnson, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Missouri

Third Place: Addison Bussell, Analyce Craft, Alexis Gleim, Ravneet Kaur, Parker Mutter, Noblesville High School, Noblesville, Indiana

Category 39 — Multimedia Sports Package

First Place: Maya Ortiz, Kingwood Park High School, Kingwood, Texas

Second Place: Shyam Punnachalil, Marquette High School, Chesterfield, Missouri

Third Place: Mithra Cama, Prosper High School, Prosper, Texas

Category 40 — Multimedia Opinion Package

First Place: Bridget Johnson, Maddy Rhoads, Maize Career Academy, Maize, Missouri

Second Place: Lufei Yuan, Minghang Crosspoint Academy at Shanghai Wenqi Middle School, Shanghai, China