Shippensburg University Television has once again received multiple collegiate Emmy® nominations from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Ship is the only university in Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education among the 2018 college/university nominees.

The student media group is in the running for hardware in three categories:

College/University Student Production – Arts and Entertainment/Cultural Affairs

“Brass Camp” – Shippensburg University

  • Marshall Keely, Producer/Reporter

College/University Student Production – Long Form

“Life in Gros Mangles” – Shippensburg University

  • Paige Arensmeyer, Producer/Reporter

Sports – Live Event

“Mansfield at Shippensburg Men’s Basketball” – Shippensburg University

  • Avery Quinn, Producer
  • Josh Charles, Co-Producer/Director
  • Isabella Marcellino, Audio/Replay
  • Jake Gillespie, Color Commentator
  • Matt Trust, Play-by-Play
  • Matthew Klinedinst, Sideline Reporter
  • Brandon Glorioso, Camera
  • Shane Adams, Camera
  • Gillian Mencken, Camera
  • Brady Fisher, Camera

SUTV now has an impressive list of nominations since NATAS began allowing award applications at the collegiate level less than a decade ago. The student media group has also walked away with awards in the previous two years. Marina Barnett ‘17 was a winner in 2017 for her public affairs/community service story “Seeing Eye Dogs.” Holly Harrar ‘16 was a winner in 2016 for a story in the same category, “Inclusion in Action: GMU Life.”

Prior to wins from Barnett and Harrar, Brandon “Bubba” Smith ‘12 garnered SUTV’s first Emmy® victory in 2012 for “Red Raider Goes for Gold,” a story about Ship alumna Neely Spence and her pursuit of competing in the Olympics.

Alumna Amanda Peterson ‘12, no stranger to the nomination list, is once again up for a regional Emmy® as part of the abc27 News team. The traffic anchor was nominated along with her abc27 News Daybreak colleagues for outstanding morning newscast in a medium market.

Another Ship graduate, Joe O’Neill ‘05, Director of Visual Media at Dickinson College, was nominated in the public/current/community affairs feature/segment category for “Dickinson & Carlisle: Working Together for the Common Good.”

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy® Awards will be presented on Saturday, October 13, 2018. The ceremony will be held at the Philadelphia Marriott.