Loras Creative Media Earns 14th Consecutive ICMA Excellence Award

Loras College Creative Media students earned 22 awards over 12 categories in the Iowa College Media Association (ICMA) Awards on Thursday, February 2, including Outstanding Video Excellence for the fourteenth consecutive year.

Loras students won more awards than any other college or university in Iowa. In total, 23 Loras students earned awards for their work in various formats, including news broadcasts, documentaries, and short films. 

“We have tremendously, talented and hard-working students in the program,” Craig Schaefer (’89), professor of creative media, said. “They are dedicated to producing content with real impact.  To be recognized as the best in Iowa is testament to that. We are incredibly proud of what they create.”

The Outstanding Video Excellence award is the highest recognition the ICMA can confer upon any of Iowa’s college and university television/video programs.

The ICMA includes seventeen colleges and universities in Iowa committed to excellence in media education. It’s open to all students, faculty, staff, and advisors involved in higher education.

Here is a complete list of winners:

OVERALL VIDEO EXCELLENCE AWARD

LORAS COLLEGE – DUMEDIA

Best Entertainment Storytelling Video Package

1^st Place – Loras College – The Love Project   Hope Ehling (’22), Marion Edwards (’22)            

3^rd Place – Loras College – DU IT.    Emily Surma (’24)

Best News-Public Affairs-Sports Reporting Video Package

1^st Place – Loras College – The Lute    Matt Williams (’23)

Best Video Sportscasting

1^st Place – Loras College – Loras Men’s VB vs. Augustana      Adam Rodriguez (’24) & Sara Hoskins (’24)

Best Short Video Documentary

2^nd Place – Loras College – Witness   Grace Henrich (’23) & Alexis Riesberg (’23)

3^rd Place – Loras College – It’s Just Hockey    Josh Payan (’23) & Olivia DeVriese (’23)                            

Best Long Video Documentary 

1^st Place – Loras College – Dancer’s Monologue: The Cat and Mouse Game      Marion Edwards            

3^rd Place – Loras College – El Principe Azul      Matt Williams & Juan Luna (’23)

Best Video Promo-PSA 

1^st Place – Loras College – On the Move with Rowdy EnergyAlexis Riesberg            

2^nd Place – Loras College – Everyone Craves It: Cherry Coke     Emily Surma & Libby Perry (’24)        

Hon. Mention – Loras College –  Not A Luxury     Matty Smith (’22) 

Best Experimental Video

1^st Place – Loras College – Annunciation   Grace Henrich

2^nd Place – Loras College – Maybe…   Artie Kerchmar (’25)

Hon. Mention – Loras College – A Text Away    Emily Surma & Libby Perry             

Best Corporate Video

1^st Place – Loras College – The Rise    Nate Kaiser (’22)

3^rd Place – Loras College – Lynch Learning Resource Center     Nora Carr (’22)

Best Short Film

1^st Place – Loras College – Alice  Matt Williams  

3^rd Place – Loras College –The Facility   Timothy Tindle (’22), Ramsey Schultz (’22), Josh Vogt (’22)

Best Video Newscast

Hon. Mention – Loras College – Inside The Lines    Hugh Molony (’24), EJ Greenberg (’23), Connor Tuohy (’23)

Best Video News Programming  

3^rd Place – Loras College – Please Introduce Yourself, Matt, Um (’22)

Hon. Mention – Loras College – On The Media     Media & Society class project – Prof. Mederson

Best Variety-Music- Comedy Video Programming

Hon. Mention – Loras College – Need Milk?    Intro TV Production class project – Prof. Schaefer