Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: UT-Arlington Entry Title: A Shooting Starr Entry Credit: Claudia Humphrey Judge Comment: Outstanding page. Good connection between the top six photos and the cutout photo. Headline decks are appropriate sizes. (Avoid using the same word - Starr - twice in headlines on the same page.) (The word "currently" in the secondary deck is redundant.)
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Baylor Entry Title: Starting five Entry Credit: Rachel Royster Judge Comment: Excellent page. The 10 photos at top are balanced by the green boxes. The hexagon shape of the photos works, I think. (It would have been clever to make them pentagons since these are the starting five of each team, but that's OK.)
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: UT-Arlington Entry Title: Women's volleyball gallery Entry Credit: Abbas Ghor Judge Comment: Excellent page. Variety of photo sizes. Standard guidelines are followed such as the player serving in the photo at left looking into the page. The extended hands in the top photo connect with the headline well. Excitement in the top photo reflects the content of the headline.
Place Name: Honorable Mention Contestant Name: Baylor Entry Title: Black athletes through the years Entry Credit: Marquis Cooley, Rachel Royster Judge Comment: Attractive spread. This type of layout could have looked cluttered, but it doesn't. Nice.
Competition Comment: As seen in the ranking, UT-Arlington and Baylor have excellent page designers. But other schools do, too. Almost all the entries show solid design principles, and most also exhibit creativity. I hope enough newspapers - collegiate and commercial - survive for the designers at all these schools to use their skills in the future.
