VIDEO: Carson-Newman Football Entrance Video
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The Carson-Newman athletic communication office tallied 10 national awards at the College Sports Communicators Publications and Digital Design Competition, the organization announced Thursday morning.
Carson-Newman is one of 13 schools in all divisions which earned double-digit accolades.
Embry-Riddle (FL) led all participating schools with 34 total places earned followed by Grace (Ind.) with 29, Oklahoma with 23 and Air Force with an even 20.
Carson-Newman had the sixth-most accolades in NCAA Division II – a fourth straight year the institution has finished inside the top 10 nationally for the division.
These accolades bring the department's overall national awards total to 64 from CSC (formerly CoSIDA) in the last eight years.
Included in the haul is a best-in-the-nation honor for hype/pre-game videos for Ian Johnson and Adam Cavalier's football entrance video for the College Division. The video was also named the best in Division II. The duo has won first place in the category each of the last two years.
The football entrance video also finished fourth in the nation in the video of the year category.
Carson-Newman also cleaned up in the game notes category. In the college division, Adam Cavalier's football game notes, Andrew Rogers' women's basketball game notes and Cavalier's men's basketball game notes finished third through fifth. The trio of note packages attained the same ranking for Division II.
Finally, Adam Cavalier's Academic All-America graphic for men's basketball's Jack Browder finished 13th in Division II for non-gameday graphics.
Cavalier's nine awards bring him to 31 for his career while Johnson ups his career total to five. Rogers' honor is the first of his career.
Football Game Notes Package
Women's Basketball Game Notes Package
Men's Basketball Game Notes Package
