Minooka Journalism Team Wins State Championship

In the case of journalism at Minooka Community High School, next in line has a tough act to follow.

How's that?

Well, consider the MCHS Journalism Team won the IHSA Journalism State Championship on Friday, April 26, at Eastern Illinois University, according to a post on the MCHS website.

Minooka edged runner-up Huntley 26-25 in scoring at that event.

And, consider that Minooka had more students earn all-state honors than ever before, according to the MCHS website. The team is composed of members of the school newspaper—the Peace Pipe Chatter—and the school yearbook—the M-DI-AN.

MCHS posted the following individual state results on its website:

• Lexie Laurich, sophomore, 1st Feature Photography
• Amoree Harkness, junior, 1st Yearbook Layout: Double-Page Spread
• Lauren Armstrong & Ali Kunkee, seniors, 2nd Yearbook Theme Development
• Baylee Dibble, senior, 3rd Copy Editing
• Austin Hough, senior, 4th Feature Writing and 5th Newspaper Sports Writing

Also competing at state for the Indians were Brennan Pagel, junior, in Broadcast News Writing; and Elaina Bartoli, senior, in Info Graphics, according to the MCHS website.

Minooka's Journalism Team is coached by yearbook adviser Laura Kuhel and newspaper adviser Matt Thomas.