Jay Lowell has been covering CCCC athletics as a photojournalist for the Concordia Blade-Empire for over 25 years and has been instrumental in helping put together the annual Cloud County Community College athletics media guide. Starting in the fall of 1997 by covering Cloud County soccer matches using a Nikon camera and 35mm film. Lowell's first T-Bird basketball game was in November of 1997 as he continued and covered every game of the 2001 NJCAA Division I Women's National Championship Tournament played in Salina and won by CCCC. During his time, Lowell has shot thousands of pictures across all sports that have been offered by Cloud County andhas received Kansas Press Association awards for sports pictures on multiple occasions including two first-place awards.