OSU students earn broadcast honors
Monday, March 31, 2008
Twenty Oklahoma State University School of Journalism and Broadcasting students were
recognized at the 2007 Oklahoma Broadcast Education Association awards ceremony last
Friday afternoon in Oklahoma City.
OSU students won a total of 16 awards, including six first-place honors in the radio
and television competitions. Eric Hinson received first-place awards in the categories
of Television Commercial and Television Promotional Spot. Eric also was a first-place
co-winner with Chris Byers in the category of Radio Commercial.
Other first-place winners from OSU were Samantha Pollock for Radio Feature News Story;
Katey Letzkus in the category of Radio Hard News Story; and Brett Coldiron and Sarah
Harrod in the category of Radio Personality Aircheck.
Other award winners were:
Jordan Woodruff Radio Hard News Story 2nd place
Jordan Woodruff & Justin Rogers Radio Sports Play-by-Play 2nd place
Pat Ball, Alex Westberg, & Josh Boltz Television Commercial
2nd place
Jeff Tarrant & Chris Byers Television Feature News Story 2nd place
Logan Gourley & Chad Bates Television Sports Play-by-Play 2nd place
Jessica Valentine & Ryan Anderson Radio Commercial 3rd place
Casey England Radio Feature News Story 3rd place
Chase Carter Television Directing 3rd place
Alex Westberg & Chad Marshall Television Feature News Story 3rd
place
At a separate event Friday, the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation
awarded three School of Journalism and Broadcasting students with $2,000 scholarships
for the 2008-09 academic year.
Jordan Woodruff received the Bill Teegins memorial scholarship, named in honor of
the longtime television sports anchor and voice of the OSU Cowboys. Pat Ball was selected
to receive the Mark Rawlings memorial scholarship, and Chad Marshall was the recipient
of the Stan Forrer scholarship.