All Star

Had a lot of help from students and coaches throwing balls behind Stacia. Even with taking 40-50 photos with 10 people throwing their balls on cue, it’s amazing how hard it is to catch the balls in the frame. In fact, I ended up adding two balls into the photo with Photoshop to make it work right. The photo then became a “photo-illustration.” After all that, the sports desk cropped the photo, losing the ball on the right. Fortunately, cropping by page editors is the exception rather than the rule at The Independent, which is unusual for a newspaper.

Grand Island Senior High’s Stacia Robertson is the honorary captain of The Independent’s 2009 Girls All-Heartland Super Squad.