The Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM) -- an international organization working to advance the success of student and professional women in sports media -- has recently created a student chapter at Penn State.

The chapter, the sixth in the nation for AWSM, attracted 25 students to its initial organizational meeting.

Longtime AWSM member Lori Shontz, a Penn State alumna who serves as an associate senior editor at The Penn Stater magazine and previously worked for the Miami Herald and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among other publications, will guide the chapter as faculty adviser. Student board members include Megan Flood, a sophomore from Stamford, Conn.; Emily Kaplan, a senior from Montclair, N.J.; and Katelyn Marmon, a sophomore from Rockville, Md.