2020 Photo of the Year winners

The Missouri Journalism Education Association is pleased to announce the 2019-2020 Photo of the Year winners.

These students submitted impressive pieces of work from this school year that were selected as the winners by a highly-qualified judging team. This is a wonderful honor for all the students and the schools they represent and are indicative of the high quality of their publications programs.

The MJEA Individual Student awards were designed to honor the very best in student writing, photography, design and video storytelling in Missouri by selecting one winner in each category.

FEATURE PHOTO OF THE YEAR

Junior Abigail Hall picks at the preserved frog in her biology class on Thursday, Dec. 5. “I had no idea in advance [that we were doing the frog dissection] so I was pretty shocked and kind of grossed out, ” said Hall. Hall’ s experience was better than she imagined but she would not do it again.

Winner: Angelina Garcia of Oak Park High School has been named winner of the Feature Photo of the Year contest. Her photo is above.

Finalists: Shannon Worley of Lafayette High School has been named a finalist in the Feature Photo of the Year contest.

PORTRAIT PHOTO OF THE YEAR

Winner: Rylee Hurt of Willard High School has been named winner of the Portrait Sports of the Year contest. Her photo is above.

Finalists: Jackson Estwanick of Marquette High School and Rhyen Standridge of Francis Howell Central High School have been named a finalist in the Portrait Photo of the Year contest.

SPORTS PHOTO OF THE YEAR

Winner: Gracie Kruep of Francis Howell Central High School and Dacie Ritch of Richland High School have been named winners of the Feature Sports of the Year contest. Their photos are above.

Finalists: Jeff Swift of Marquette High School has been named a finalist in the Sports Photo of the Year contest.

NEWS PHOTO OF THE YEAR

Winner: Devin Duffie of Richland High School has been named winner of the News of the Year contest. His photo is above.

Finalists: Gracie Kruep of Francis Howell Central High School has been named a finalist in the News Photo of the Year contest.