2009 Golden Leaf Awards

First Place

• Daniel Binkard, Sports Photo
• Carmen Brown, Ad Design
• Jennifer Cleveland, Hard News/Spot News
• Savanna N. Wick, Cartoon

Second Place

• Jennifer Cleveland, Feature Story, News Photo
• The Eagle Staff, Best Overall

Third Place

• Savanna N. Wick, News Photo (Fire guts CSC couple's home)

2007 Golden Leaf Awards

Awards given for small newspapers

First Place

• The Eagle Staff, Special Section/Issue (A Season To Remember)
  Judge's comments: "This section was a colorful, in-depth look at the football team's exploits, with well-framed and shot photography throughout the section. The pictures, captions and text worked well together to give a hard-hitting reliving of a special moment in time on the gridiron."

Second Place

• Daniel Binkard, Two-Page Spread Layout Design (Spotted Tail fire leaves C-Hill blackened)

Third Place

• Daniel Binkard, News Photo (Dean’s green becomes battleground during ROTC)
• John “Buddha” Delle, Photo Essay (Arbor Day an original Nebraska holiday)
• Lauren Smith, Feature Story (In facing death, Dr. Randall Austin anticipates life)

2006 Golden Leaf Awards

Awards given in Class S (enrollment under 5,000)

First Place

• Aaron Beyer, Cartoon
• Daniel Binkard, Sports Photograph (Rodeo team wrestles out one first place)

Second Place

• Heather Beebout, News Photograph
• Sierra Lamb, Feature Story
• The Eagle staff, Editorial

Third Place

• Sally Roberts, Advertisement Design

2005 Golden Leaf Awards

First Place

• Daniel Binkard, News Photograph (BMX stunt rider), Photo Essay (Take a step into the fourth dimension) and Sports Photograph (Eagles break records)
• Billie O'Bryan, Advertisement (Halloween Bash)
• Heather Beebout and Alex Helmbrecht, Review (Crazy, not so crazy about Second City)

Second Place

• Heather Beebout, News Photograph (Powwow)
• Laura Phagan, Special Section/Issue (Experience the Wild Wild West)
• Amber Vrana, Investigative/In-Depth Story (Community worried…)
• (Tie) Lillian Witt, Kathy Rapp and Heather Beebout, Two-Page Spread Layout Design (Spring Daze 2004)

Third Place

• Aaron Beyer, Cartoon/Editorial Cartoon (10/28/04)
• Elizabeth Thies, Advertisement (133,938,880 died…)
• Jodi Banzhaf and Alex Helmbrecht, Review (The Incredibles)

Honorable Mention

• Overall Excellence - Newspaper
• Heather Beebout, News Photograph (Freedom Walk)
• Eric J. Lubbers, Headline Writing (I'm [sic] of my generation's bad grammar)
• Laura Phagan, Sports Photograph (Rugby men and women)

2005 Nebraska Press Association Best of 2005 — College Journalism

Second Place

• General Excellence

Third Place

• Laura Phagan, Best Sports Photo (Rugby)
• Heather Beebout and Eric J. Lubbers, Best News Series (Priority groups to be vaccinated; Nurse shoots down flu shot rumors)
• Billie O'Bryan, The Sinister Grin, Third Place, Single Advertising Idea

2004 Golden Leaf Awards

First Place

• Travis Faber, Ad Design

Second Place

• Crystalrae Gibson, News Photograph
• Mari Olson, Sports Photograph
• Amber Vrana, Editorial

Third Place

• Travis Faber, Cartoon
• Alex Helmbrecht, Sports Photograph
• Amber Vrana, Hard News and Feature Story

2004 Nebraska Press Association

Third Place

• General Excellence

2001 Nebraska Press Association

First Place

• Farrah Eleson, News Series (Solid Waste Controversy)

Third Place

• Jason Ferguson, Editorial (The Skinny on Becoming Trim)

2000 Nebraska Press Association

First Place

• Anna Henkens, Best Spot News Writing (Battle With Alcohol Worsens Cultural Ties)

Second Place

• Lisa Grubbs, Best News Series (Chadron State Could Become Part....)
• Shelli Smith-Stewart and Kristi Mehlhoff, Best Feature Story (Auschwitz: Survivor Tells Story)

Third Place

• The Eagle staff, Best Editorial (Non Traditionals Growing in College Experience)
• Sweepstakes Awards/College