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Four UA journalism graduates, including two Daily Wildcat alumnae, were part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting on April 18. The award went to the Los Angeles Times’ coverage of the San Bernardino mass shooting in December 2015.
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ERICA CLEVENGER races past her competitors in a January race. Clevenger won the Collegiate Triathlon Championship at the women’s Olympic division during Saturday’s competition in Clemson, South Carolina.
TriCat Clevenger wins national championship
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Erica Clevenger had a few words ringing in her head on the last lap of the USA Triathlon Collegiate Club National Championships. “This is my house. This is my realm and this is what I’m good at,” Clevenger recalled. Those words would make the difference as she outpaced her competitor Kelly Kosmo from
UCLA to win the women’s Olympic-distance national championship with a time of 2:15:50 in Clemson, South Carolina. “I knew going into it that I had a shot at the championship and ... my goal in the race was to have confidence and believe in myself,” Clevenger said. “It’s easy to doubt yourself, especially starting behind as I usually do because
Teamwork Kristina Bui, a graduate of the class of 2013, helped with the coverage as a copy editor, while Brittny Mejia from the class of 2014, Marisa Gerber from the class of 2011, and Stephen Ceasar from the class of 2009, worked as reporters. All four former Wildcats said they were honored, proud and excited to be contributors to the impressive several weeks of coverage done by their large team. “It was a really big team effort and I just feel lucky that I could be a part of it,” Mejia said. Each said covering the event was difficult and emphasized the importance of remembering that each situation is difficult for those impacted when reporting and gathering information. “I think for a lot of us who spoke with the victims’ families, it’ll always be a little bittersweet because you’ll be remembering this only happened because this terrible thing happened.” Gerber said. A close community You can take the student out of the UA, but you can’t take the Wildcat pride
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