📰✨ ABILENE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WIN BIG AT KSPA REGIONALS! ✨📰
The 🏆 Kansas Scholastic Press Association (KSPA) has announced the winners of the 2026 Regional Journalism Contest, recognizing the very best student journalism from more than 1,800 entries across Kansas, and our AHS Cowboys & Cowgirls showed up in a BIG way! 🤠🧡🤎
Students competed in 27 categories across multiple classifications, and those placing 1st–6th advance to the state competition. We are so proud of the creativity, skill, and dedication our students demonstrated on deadline and in response to challenging prompts!
👏 Congratulations to our award winners:
📸 Academics Photography
🥈 Sydney Brown
🥉 Riley Goodale
🎨 Advertising Design
🥉 Bentley Strickland
📝 Copyediting
6️⃣ Peyton Selby
💻 Digital Illustration
🥇 Rachael Kamhi
🖊 Feature Writing
🥈 Peyton Selby
📰 Headline Writing & Design
4️⃣ Pierce Casteel
📊 Infographic Design
5️⃣ Katelyn Nankivel
🎥 Multimedia Storytelling
🥉 Jada Richardson, Luke Watson, Pierce Casteel & Braden Short
🗞 News Page Design
🥇 Jada Richardson
4️⃣ Luke Watson
Newspaper Sports Writing
4️⃣ Braden Short
📱 Social Media
🥈 Ryan McKinney
🥉 Jackson Sawyer & Wyatt Shaffett
🏈 Sports Action Photography
🥉 Chloe Friederich
📷 Sports Media Portrait Photography
🥉 Claire Kolhoff
🎒 Student Life Photography
🥈 Charlie Elliott
🎬 Video PSA
🥉 Trenton Huhman & Talon Mather
🎥 Video Sports Promo
🥈 Owen Tichenor
🥉 Kian Mather & Gabe Engle
6️⃣ Ashton Coyle
🎞 Video Story Package
4️⃣ Jonavin Robinson & Jada Richardson
📘 Yearbook Design
6️⃣ Paislee Davidson
Your hard work representing Abilene High School in orange and brown makes Cowboy Nation proud! 🧡🤎
Learn more about KSPA at 🌐 www.kspaonline.org
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