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title: Three photographers named 2020 Photo of the Year finalists
description: Congratulations to three photographers from Balfour schools for being named 2020 Photo of the Year finalists from the NSPA.
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# [Three photographers named 2020 Photo of the Year finalists](https://blog.balfour.com/three-photographers-named-2020-photo-of-the-year-finalists)

 Written by [Kel Lemons](https://blog.balfour.com/author/kel-lemons) | Nov 6, 2020 10:00:00 PM

*Congratulations to three photographers from Balfour schools for being named 2020 Photo of the Year finalists from the National Scholastic Press Association. NSPA recently announced the 10 finalists in five categories: News Photo, Feature Photo, Sports Game/Action Photo, Sports Feature Photo and Environmental Portrait.*

The winners will be announced during an awards ceremony for the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention, presented virtually 1 p.m. CST, Saturday, Nov. 21.

### Environmental portrait

Haley Drouin  
*Lone Star*  
James Bowie High School, Austin, Texas

### Sports Game/Action Photo

Jacob Grosch  
*Bridgeland Student Media*  
Bridgeland High School, Cypress, Texas

Ava Bathurst  
*Ledoian*  
Aledo High School, Aledo, Texas

In addition to the yearbook photographer finalists, two of our Balfour schools’ sister publications have photo finalists. McCallum High School’s newspaper *The Shield *has three photographers nominated in three categories while Westwood’s online publication has a finalist in the sports feature photo category. The full list of [**Photo of the Year finalists**](http://studentpress.org/nspa/2020-photo-of-the-year-finalists/) is available on NSPA’s website.

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