Ball State wins eight Emmys

Ball State University has won eight regional Emmy Awards for excellence, including three by the Sports Link student production unit and others dealing with farming, classic automobiles and the Midwest.

Sports Link photographer Christopher Renkel won a Video Journalist Emmy for the piece "Finding Refuge." The production group and instructor Chris Taylor also won the Newscast and Live Event categories.

Also winning were projects from the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. Garret Brubaker and Dan Edwards won Editing Emmys for their work on “Down to Earth: Small Farm Issues in a Big Farm World.”

Kayla Sprayue won an award for Director-Post Production for, “Legacies of Perfection: Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg” about the former Indiana car manufacturers.

Telecommunications instructor Chris Flook won two awards, for animation and editing, for his work on “Miracle on 34th Street” and a segment on the Midwest Restoration Festival. Graduate student Kayla Eiler won for directing the festival segment.

The awards were presented by the Lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences, which includes markets from Erie, Pennsylvania, through Cleveland, Toledo, Fort Wayne, Muncie, Lima, Indianapolis, and Bloomington.

The awards were presented Saturday June 7 at the Cleveland Convention Center.
  
Ball State Emmy winners from www.nataslgl.org

    Crafts: Editor - Program. Down to Earth: Small Farm Issues in a Big Farm World. Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. Garret Brubaker and Dan Edwards, Editors.
    Crafts: Video Journalist. Finding Refuge. Ball State Sports Link. Christopher Renkel, Photographer.
    Crafts: Director - Post Production. Legacies of Perfection: Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg. Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. Kayla Sprayue, Director.
    Student: Newscast & Information. Ball State Sports Link: 3rd Down Chirp. Ball State Sports Link. Chris Taylor, Instructor.
    Student: Sports - Live Event. Ball State Sports Link: Men's Volleyball vs. Loyola. Ball State Sports Link. Chris Taylor, Instructor.
    Crafts: Graphics/Animation. Miracle on 34th Street. Ball State University. Chris Flook, Animator/Motionographer.
    Crafts: Audio. Down to Earth: Small Farm Issues in a Big Farm World. Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. Garret Brubaker, Dan Edwards, and Sam Noble, Audio Technicians.
    Lifestyle Program - Feature/Segment. Midwest Restoration Festival. Ball State University. Kayla Eiler, Director, and Chris Flook, Editor.
      
      - John Strauss, jcstrauss@bsu.edu