WKU Debaters Receive Bids For National Tournament

February 01, 2008

Bowling Green, Ky. - Three Western Kentucky University debate teams have received bids to this year’s National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence.

The invitation-only tournament will be held March 15-16 in Tacoma, Wash.

The WKU teams are:

*Chad Meadows (an Owensboro senior) and Tom Schally (a junior from Stillwater, Minn.), who are ranked No. 2 out of 774 teams in the latest NPTE rankings.

*Brian Bloss (a junior from Coppell, Texas) and Kelcy Hathaway (a sophomore from Garden City, Kan.) who are ranked 10th.

*Elizabeth Mullins (a sophomore from Plymouth, Mass.) and Logan Parke (a sophomore from Little Rock, Ark.) who are ranked 12th.

More information about the NPTE is available online at http://npte.debateaddict.com/. More information about WKU’s forensic team is available online at http://www.wku.edu/forensics/
               
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For information, contact Judy Woodring at (270) 745-6340.