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ESPN’s Feature on BGSU’s Jaedyn McKinstry Earns Multiple Awards
August 10, 2022 | Football
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 featured by Andscape when it was known as The Undefeated.
"I want to thank Jerry [Bembry] and Alex [Nolen], and their staff for putting everything together and making my story come alive on ESPN," said McKinstry. "I want to send my congratulations to them on these recent awards. I also want to thank my mom and the rest of my family and friends that were involved in this story that were around the cameras and were interviewed."
McKinstry (So., Fremont, Ohio) was diagnosed with in 2018 with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer that mostly affects children and forms in soft skeletal muscle tissue. The cancer was determined to be in stage 4 based on location — paratesticular, lymph node and lung — and required surgical removal. McKinstry was declared cancer free in 2019 and returned to athletic high school competition after missing a year of school.
McKinstry made his collegiate debut at Bowling Green in 2021, making three catches for 22 yards in the season opener at Tennessee.
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 featured by Andscape when it was known as The Undefeated.
"I want to thank Jerry [Bembry] and Alex [Nolen], and their staff for putting everything together and making my story come alive on ESPN," said McKinstry. "I want to send my congratulations to them on these recent awards. I also want to thank my mom and the rest of my family and friends that were involved in this story that were around the cameras and were interviewed."
McKinstry (So., Fremont, Ohio) was diagnosed with in 2018 with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer that mostly affects children and forms in soft skeletal muscle tissue. The cancer was determined to be in stage 4 based on location — paratesticular, lymph node and lung — and required surgical removal. McKinstry was declared cancer free in 2019 and returned to athletic high school competition after missing a year of school.
McKinstry made his collegiate debut at Bowling Green in 2021, making three catches for 22 yards in the season opener at Tennessee.
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