Alex Driehaus
Fourth Place
Ohio University
$1,000 Scholarship
- Members of the Volts All-Star team from Gymnastics Training Center of Ohio compete during the Arnold Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championships in Columbus, Ohio, on March 5, 2017. The Arnold Sports Festival features 70 different sports and events, and is one of the largest sports festivals in the nation.
- Tia Sub, right, and Tyrone Sub, left, wave towels as they watch game five of the Stanley Cup final on the big screen on Thursday, June 8, 2017 outside of PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. The Penguins beat the Predators 6-0 in game five and went on to win the Stanley Cup in game 6.
- Quentin Morris poses for a portrait in front of his untitled painting during the grand opening of the 20/20 exhibition at the Carnegie Art Museum on Saturday, July 22, 2017 in Oakland, Pittsburgh. 20/20 is a collaboration between artists from Pittsburgh and Harlem exploring blackness throughout our nation's history.
- Mohamed Abdullah, blue, takes a swing at Antwan Jackson, red, during a professional boxing match held at the Hollywood Casino in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, March 4, 2017. Abdullah won the four-round fight.
- Bayleigh Merrill, 4, left, and Morgan McKinniss, 4, right, hold hands with their mothers, Leah Smith, center left, and Misty McKinniss, center right, as they wait to walk onto the stage to be introduced during the Mini Queen Contest on the first night of the Wellston Coal Festival on September 5, 2017, in Wellston, Ohio. The festival has been held every year since 1973 and celebrates the town's heritage.
- Whitney Johnson, right, hugs her adoptive sister, Angel Swart, at their family's property off of old route 33 near Nelsonville, Ohio, on October 7, 2017. Whitney has been addicted to heroin and Suboxone for eight years, and met Angel's parents through a jail ministry program last year. The family took Whitney in and brought her closer to God, but she went back to an abusive husband. Now Whitney is clean and in a new relationship, and she was able to return to her adoptive family's home to visit for the first time in months.
- Paramedics help wheelchair-bound Joe Allessie out of a bus that crashed into a nine-foot overpass on Thursday, July 20, 2017 on Merchant Street in Pittsburgh's North Shore neighborhood. Allessie was part of a group of veterans that came down to Pittsburgh from the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Erie to attend a tailgate party and watch a Pirates game. No one was seriously injured in the crash, and the passengers were still able to make the game.
- Tears roll down Damira Penny's cheeks as she talks about her daily medications, many of which she is able to afford because of the Affordable Care Act, during a rally marking the beginning of a 24-hour vigil outside the office of Pennsylvania Republican Senator Pat Toomey on Thursday, June 22, 2017 in Pittsburgh. "No one should ever have to choose between their medications and food," said Penny, who has had to make that choice in the past.