Written by Jenica Hallman, CJE
It’s not luck but rather hard work and talent that earned five Walsworth schools a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown on St. Patrick’s Day. Congratulations to all the Crown winners! We are proud of our 21 schools who received a CSPA Gold or Silver Crown. The winners were announced at the CSPA Spring Convention in New York City and on a livestream video of the awards ceremony on Friday, March 17. We feel lucky to work with such amazing yearbook staffs!
The 2022 Walsworth customer yearbooks named CSPA Gold Crowns are:
- Ledoian, Aledo High School, Aledo, Texas
- Oro, Cactus Canyon Junior High School, Apache Junction, Arizona
- Ayrie, Liberty North High School, Liberty, Missouri
- Lair, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, Shawnee, Kansas
- The Torch, Athens Drive Magnet High School, Raleigh, North Carolina
The 2022 Walsworth customer yearbooks named CSPA Silver Crowns are:
- Aerie, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida
- Azimuth, The Benjamin Middle School, North Palm Beach, Florida
- Brickhouse, Shawnee Mission North High School, Overland Park, Kansas
- El Corazon, El Roble Intermediate, Claremont, California
- Fusion, Hagerty High School, Oviedo, Florida
- Hauberk, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas
- Hoofbeats, Burges High School, El Paso, Texas
- Legacy, Deerlake Middle School, Tallahassee, FL
- Madrono, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California
- Panther, H.B. Plant High School, Tampa, Florida
- Raider, Gulliver Preparatory Upper School, Pinecrest, Florida
- The Arena, Legacy High School, Mansfield, Texas
- The Creek, Timber Creek High School, Fort Worth, Texas
- The Round-Up, Woodland Junior High School, Fayetteville, Arkansas
CSPA also named the following new Walsworth customers for 2023 as Silver Crowns for their 2022 books:
- Prowler, Providence Senior High School, Charlotte, North Carolina
- The Bard, Hill Country Christian School, Austin, Texas
The CSPA Crown Awards are among the nation’s highest awards for scholastic journalism. The awards honor overall excellence of the publication in concept, design, coverage and photography. The yearbooks are judged by a panel of journalism and journalism education professionals. You can find a full list of winners on the CSPA website.
For more information on all of the Walsworth award-winning yearbooks, visit our President’s Collection Gallery. You’ll see a full list of our CSPA Gold and Silver Crown and NSPA Pacemaker and Pacemaker Finalist winners. You can also watch our President’s Collection Highlight Series, with five-to-fifteen-minute videos describing what makes each of these books so outstanding.
