OHIO-trained photojournalists cover range of top sporting events like NBA Finals, U.S. Open, WNBA, Belmont races and next: the Paris Olympics

Sarah Stier and Maddie Meyer at Olympic Swim Trials

Photo provided by Maddie Meyer and Sarah Stier

�� alumni Sarah Stier and Maddie Meyer of Getty Images at U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming, in Indianapolis, June 16.

From Boston’s TD Garden Arena to river stand-up paddle board training in Alaska, sporting events showcase the visual talent of elite award-winning photojournalists trained at ��.

The talent pool of photographers from OHIO’s School of Visual Communication is so deep that sometimes two alumni are even assigned to the same sporting event.

, BSVC ’18, and sports photojournalist , BSVC ’14, photographed the Olympic Swim Trials in Indianapolis on June 16 in preparation to cover Aquatics: swim, dive, water polo and artistic swimming, together at the Paris Olympics.

Paris will host the 2024 Summer Olympics July 26 through Aug. 11.

New York-based Stier and Boston-based Meyer work for , a global visual media company. Prior to covering the Olympic Swim Trials in Indianapolis, Meyer photographed games one and two of the 2024 NBA Finals in Boston. Her images were widely published by , , , , , , , , and more.

Photos of “all shapes and sizes” of Boston Celtic fans by Erin Clark of The Boston Globe were seen by a large audience on social media and elsewhere. Clark, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, attended ��.

Golf/WNBA/baseball/taekwondo

On June 14 and 17, lead photos in the print editions of The Washington Post Sports page were taken by of The Associated Press, who attended ��.

On June 17, The Washington Post also published a photo by Emilee Chinn, BSVC ’21, of Angel Reese (Chicago Sky) and Caitlin Clark (Indiana Fever) of the WNBA. , who graduated from the School of Visual Communication in December of 2021, is team photographer for the Cincinnati Reds and also documents other professional sports.

Recent visual communication graduate , BSVC ’24, is a photo intern at the Cincinnati Reds.

Globetrotting photojournalism alumnus Choi Won-suk, MA ’14, of The Korea Times documented competing in a taekwondo tournament in Jordan in May.

Praised by peers

Pictures of the Year (POY) International is a contest sponsored by the Reynolds Journalism Institute at University of Missouri. This prestigious competition has recognized �� alumnus , MA ’21, as Sports Photographer of the Year, not once but twice.

Gade, photo editor of the Rapid City Journal, documents a wide variety of sports including rodeo, the official sport of South Dakota. He shared a favorite sports photo, showing celebration of a match point at a state volleyball tournament, which won an Award of Excellence from the Pictures of the Year contest.

Matt Gade photo of girls’ team celebrating — Photo by Matt Gade of a women's team celebrating their win.

In Louisville, award-winning OHIO alumnus has photographed the Kentucky Derby 46 times. Dry is the managing director of the Content Creation Studio at , based in Louisville.

Photo of Dan Dry and muddy horses at the 2024 Kentucky Derby — Photo by Dan Dry of muddy horses at the 2024 Kentucky Derby.

Stier’s photos of the 2024 Belmont Stakes horse race for Getty Images were published by , , , , , , and more.

The wide-ranging portfolio of Miami Herald photographer , BS, BSVC ’21, includes the Florida Panthers pro hockey team. is the .

Another type of “stand-up”

, MA ’07, of the Anchorage Daily News is among the Pulitzer Prize winners trained at the OHIO School of Visual Communication. On June 4, his newspaper published Holmes’ photo of a paddle boarder and her dog, training for the GoPro Mountain Games, a down river stand-up race in Vail, Colo.

While not a comprehensive list, these alumni represent �� well in current sports photojournalism. To learn more about the School of Visual Communication, please visit ohio.edu/scripps-college/viscom.