Congratulations to the Sword & Shield staff for receiving, for the first time ever,  a rating of “All Alabama” at this past weekend’s Alabama Scholastic Press Association’s state competition. The Sword & Shield was one of three high school newspapers state-wide to receive this rating, which is the highest award possible.

The following students also received individual awards:

On-site newspaper Editorial writing

1^st place:  Olivia Burton

2^nd place:  Barbara Sandlin

On-site newspaper Layout

2^nd place:  Mary Nobles Hancock

Page One Design  December 14^th Edition

1^st place: Co-Editors-in-Chief Will Hightower and Mary Nobles Hancock

Review

1^st place:  Anna Patterson—“Taking the guesswork out of Greek Yogurt”

Honorable Mention:   “The Great Language Debate”—Rachel Fleisig, Mary Nobles Hancock, Atticus O’Brien

Editorial

2^nd place:  Anna Patterson—“A perishing culture? The decline of print journalism”

Sports Story

2^nd place:  Will Hightower—“Vlachos proves Saban wrong”

3^rd place:  Fletcher Cox—“MBHS Football team defeats Hoover”

Ads—Design

1^st place:  William Norris

Arts/Graphic

2^nd place:  William Norris

News Photo

3^rd place:  Will Hightower

We are proud of our journalism students!