ESPN’s Feature on BGSU’s Jaedyn McKinstry Earns Multiple Awards

BOWLING GREEN, OHIO – Recently ESPN's "Outside the Lines" feature on Bowling Green State University wide receiver Jaedyn McKinstry's fight against cancer received two awards for the piece that aired in December 2021 as part of the networks' V Week.

The New York Film Festival awarded the feature silver in the Human Interest Features category, while it won Best Sports Feature in the television network category by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).

Producer Alexandra M. Nolen and reporter Jerry Bembry were entrenched with the Bowling Green football family for a couple days in November 2021. Bembry, the reporter for the feature, previously wrote a feature on McKinstry that was…