Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Sponsors Seminar in Sports Journalism

The evening, featuring the Denver area's top sports journalists, will take place in the main floor theater of The Denver Post building, 101 West Colfax, on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 7:00pm.

Originally produced for the previous four years for Colorado high school journalists and photojournalists, college and other school students are also invited this year.  Members of the ASMP and The Denver Post  photography departments will critique student work from 5:00 p.m. The evening program, featuring top sports journalists and photojournalists, begins at 7:00 p.m. with an informal dinner hour at 6:00 p.m. Soft drinks and pizzas will be provided by Nikon and Rich Clarkson & Associates, in support of student photojournalists.

The list of speakers includes editor Greg Moore, beat writer Troy Renck and assistant managing editor Tim Rasmussen of The Denver Post, sports anchor Vic Lombardi of CBS 4, nationally renowned adventure sports photographer Keith Ladzinski and former National Geographic Society director of photography and Sports Illustrated photographer Rich Clarkson, for the evening program. The speakers will tell of careers in journalism, sports journalism and photojournalism in addition to photo slide shows.

In addition to the program, part of the week's activities built around the high school football championships, there will be a contest for the best high school student-produced picture from the current year. The winning student will receive the latest model professional Nikon digital reflex camera. Donated by Nikon, not only will the winning student be presented with the camera set (camera and zoom lens) but the school he or she attends will also receive a like camera set.

Sports photographs to be eligible should be taken during the current calendar year—from Jan. 1, 2009, until the deadline for submission on Nov. 30, 2009, and can be either sent as DVDs or prints to the seminar organizer's office (Rich Clarkson and Associates LLC, 1099 18th St., Suite 2840, Denver, CO 80202) or submitted electronically to ' ); //--> This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it " title="mailto: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it "> This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

Each entrant is limited to no more than 10 images and those that are e-mailed should be no larger than ten inches at 200 DPI.

“Championship Saturday V”, www.championshipsaturday.com, is presented by the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame, with Legacy sponsors King Soopers / City Market, Gatorade, The Denver Post, Wells Fargo, AT&T, and INVESCO Field at Mile High. The 4A and 5A Colorado high school championship games will be played on Saturday, Dec. 5, at INVESCO Field at Mile High.

 For more information, please call 720-258-3536, or visit www.coloradosports.org, or www.championshipsaturday.com.