AWSM is proud to introduce its 2010 internship/scholarship winners. Each of these six women will work in paid summer internships with our host organizations, as listed below. They'll also receive a $1,000 scholarship from AWSM and an expenses-paid trip to our 2009 convention. The editing internship winners receive an additional $1,000 scholarship from the Associated Press Sports Editors.

The application deadline for our 2010 program has passed.
Please click here to see the application requirements.

Amanda Anderson, ESPN
Gene and Jackie Autry Scholarship
The junior at Maryland is a broadcast journalism major and French studies minor and the winner of the Gene and Jackie Autry Scholarship. She writes editorials for The Diamondback (her school newspaper), blogs for Everydayhealth.com and is a staff writer for Unwind! Magazine as well as Tri-DC Magazine. Anderson did an internship for the Foreign Service Journal and was a student leader for the 2016 Chicago Olympic bid.
 
Abbey Doran, USA Track & Field
After spending three years at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Doran transferred to the University of North Carolina where she will graduate this spring. She works for the UNC student-run television news show “Carolina Week” and spent a year copy editing for the Blue and White, UNC’s student magazine. Doran spent two years working for the IUP Sports Information Department writing game stories, press releases, updating the Web site and creating media guides.
 
Marlowe Hereford, Salt Lake Tribune
AWSM Internship Opportunity Grant
Known as a jack of all trades, Hereford is a junior at Marshall.  She has done the jobs of reporter, copy editor, sports editor and page designer for The Parthenon, Marshall’s school newspaper during her two and a half years there. Hereford is a journalism major and sports studies minor. AWSM will pay the intern salary, made possible by a contribution from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

From Michael Anastasi, managing editor of the Salt Lake Tribune: "She’ll be involved in everything that we cover. She’ll be doing enterprise, breaking news, working for the web and getting the chance to even write for A1. She will also be exposed to a little bit beyond the world of sports. It will be a complete experience.”

Laken Litman, Sports llustrated
Mike Roberts Memorial Scholarship
A junior at the University of Texas (Austin), she in the school of journalism, where her focus is on sports journalism and the magazine sequence track.  She is the recipient of the Mike Roberts Memorial Scholarship.  This is Litman’s third year writing for the Daily Texan, her school newspaper. She has beat writing experience in football, cross country, softball, baseball, women’s soccer and men’s basketball. Litman also freelances for ESPN.com and ABC On Campus. She completed an internship last summer with D Magazine.

From Trisha Blackmar, senior editor at Sports Illustrated: "We are eagerly awaiting Laken’s arrival for her internship at Sports Illustrated. Her primary responsibility will be fact checking, but she will also have the opportunity to submit story ideas and to learn the ins and outs of putting together a national magazine. Our interns are always very involved in working on our college football preview issue, and I know Laken’s experience on the Longhorns’ football beat at UT will serve her well her in New York. We have always received outstanding candidates from the AWSM program and several have been hired to full-time positions after their internships."

Gina Mizell, MLB.com
Jim Brennan Scholarship
In her fourth year at Arizona State, Mizell has compiled quite a resume all while achieving a 4.06 GPA. Mizell is the winner of the Jim Brennan Scholarship.  She works for the Cronkite NewsWatch, Fox Sports Arizona, Cronkite Sports at the Half, is the sports editor at the State Press (where she is also the football and women’s basketball beat writer), is the Campus Connection reporter for ESPNU, the ASU correspondent for UWire, freelances for the Arizona Republic and is on-air with KASC The Blaze 1330 AM in Tempe. Mizell has completed internships at Sports 620 KTAR in Phoenix, Sun Devil Sports Network, KTVK 3TV Sports and Bleacher Report.
 
Jocelyn Syrstad, MLB.com
Betty Brennan Scholarship
She is a junior at Penn State majoring in journalism with a minor in Spanish and is the recipient of the Betty Brennan scholarship. Syrstad has freelanced for The Associated Press for a year and a half and has covered everything from high school basketball state championships to the Philadelphia 76ers.  At the Daily Collegian, Penn State’s school newspaper, she has held positions of enterprise reporter and beat writer for volleyball, softball, wrestling, field hockey, lacrosse, swimming and diving. Syrstad did an internship with This Week Newspapers in Dakota, Minn., last summer. She also was a guest writer for the spring 2009 AWSM newsletter.

From Bill Hill, assistant managing editor at MLB.com: "MLB.com is very excited about having Gina Mizell and Jocelyn Syrstad join us this summer as associate reporters. We have been proud participants in AWSM’s internship program for several years, and this year the group of AWSM candidates was stronger than ever. As recent AWSM interns Samantha Newman and Amy Brittain can tell you, MLB.com interns get a unique experience. They truly get to function as beat reporters. They often cover their team alone, writing 6-8 stories a day, and they learn how to think and work as a beat reporter. There’s no “coffee fetchin,” just a lot of reporting and writing. At the end of the summer, they are ready to enter the job market and take that next step toward a successful career."

Thank you to Jackie Autry, Christine Brennan and Selena Roberts for their generosity to endow scholarships!