Utah State University junior Sarah Murphy was awarded four EMMY awards at the 2021 Rocky Mountain EMMY Awards Gala, held Nov. 6, 2021. Murphy won three individual Student Production Awards and also won one Student Production Award as part of a team. "The awards I won were for all the work I've done here at Utah State for my broadcast journalism degree," Murphy said. "It's work I've done in my prerequisite classes and my newscast classes. It's been all the work, the news stories and the talent reels that I've put together for my degree." Murphy's first award came for her overall talent reel, which is a collection of her broadcast stories. She then won two awards for specific news stories. The first won the EMMY award in the College News Report - Serious category, for her work on a story called "Sarah's Attitude", a story about a teen who had been struck by a drunk driver. The second specific news story won in the College News Report - Light category, for her story on Music Therapy and its effect on patients. Murphy's fourth award came in the College Magazine Category, for her work on the Cache Rendezvous Holiday Edition magazine, where she worked as a reporter with three fellow USU students. Murphy was also nominated in a fifth category, the College Multimedia Journalist category, for her story on the stalking of college students in Utah. During her time as a broadcast journalism student at USU, Murphy has been a part of many story assignments. While she has not always enjoyed every single story she has been a part of, when a story captures her, she finds her work extremely satisfactory. "Obviously, I'm not a professional but in my little experience so far with news, there's obviously a lot of hard parts of it and a lot of parts that you don't necessarily love as much in the stories that you don't always want to do. But it's the stories like these ones, the ones that you care about, that make worth it," Murphy said.