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The WKU Forensics Team traveled to Muncie, Indiana, to compete in two tournaments co-hosted by Ball State University and Illinois State University the weekend of Oct.13-14.

WKU won the team sweepstakes championships at both tournaments, ahead of 17 other schools, including the University of Texas at Austin, Bradley University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The team won 14 individual championships in all, and senior Lane Hedrick was named the overall champion of the second tournament.

Next weekend the team will compete at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Results from the 49th annual “Ball State and Illinois State University ‘Age of Aquarius’ Swing Tournaments" are as follows:

• Lane Hedrick, a senior from Morehead, tournament champion in extemporaneous speaking, tournament champion in persuasive speaking, tournament champion in quadrathon and fifth in informative speaking at the second tournament; tournament champion in persuasive speaking and second in informative speaking at the first tournament.
• Ryan Gosling, a sophomore from West Palm Beach, Florida, tournament champion in prose interpretation, second in quadrathon, third in dramatic interpretation and third in duo interpretation (with Rickey Williams) at the first tournament; second in poetry interpretation and third in dramatic interpretation at the second tournament.
• Anthony Survance, a junior from Louisville, tournament champion in extemporaneous speaking and third in impromptu speaking at the first tournament; third in impromptu speaking and fifth in extemporaneous speaking at the second tournament.
• Casey Child, a senior from Taylor Mill, tournament champion in poetry interpretation, fifth in dramatic interpretation and fifth in prose interpretation at the first tournament; tournament champion in prose interpretation at the second tournament.
• Matt Wisenden, a senior from Moorhead, Minnesota, tournament champion in duo interpretation (with Reese Johnson) and sixth in prose interpretation at the first tournament.
• Natalie Hedberg, a senior from Chaska, Minnesota, tournament champion in communication analysis at the first tournament; second in informative speaking and third in communication analysis at the second tournament.
• Andrea Ambam, a senior from Peculiar, Missouri, tournament champion in informative speaking at the first tournament; tournament champion in informative speaking at the second tournament.
• Corey Newsome, a sophomore from Morehead, tournament champion in communication analysis and sixth in dramatic interpretation at the second tournament; second in communication analysis and fifth in poetry interpretation at the first tournament.
• Reese Johnson, a freshman from Burnsville, Minnesota, tournament champion in duo interpretation (with Matt Wisenden) at the first tournament.
• Zakkiyah Sanders, a sophomore from Apple Valley, Minnesota, tournament champion in poetry interpretation at the second tournament.
• Emma Warnecke, a sophomore from West Bloomfield, Michigan, second in persuasive speaking, second in duo interpretation (with Derek Collins), fourth in quadrathon and fourth in informative speaking at the first tournament; tournament champion in programmed oral interpretation and fourth in informative speaking at the second tournament.
• Derek Collins, a sophomore from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, second in duo interpretation (with Emma Warnecke), third in informative speaking, fourth in persuasive speaking and fifth in quadrathon at the first tournament; second in persuasive speaking at the second tournament.
• Rickey Williams, a sophomore from Minneapolis, Minnesota, second in poetry interpretation and third in duo interpretation (with Ryan Gosling) at the first tournament; third in informative speaking and third in poetry interpretation at the second tournament.
• Bradley Wascher, a junior from Montgomery, Alabama, second in extemporaneous speaking and fifth in informative speaking at the first tournament; fifth in communication analysis and fifth in persuasive speaking at the second tournament.
• Kelly Lingen, a freshman from Lakeville, Minnesota, third in poetry interpretation and fifth in programmed oral interpretation at the first tournament; fourth in poetry interpretation at the second tournament.
• Faith LoPiccolo, a junior from Lexington, third in programmed oral interpretation and fifth in persuasive speaking at the first tournament; sixth in persuasive speaking at the second tournament.
• Alex Rivera, a junior from Newton, Kansas, third in extemporaneous speaking and sixth in impromptu speaking at the second tournament.
• Zach Bernat, a sophomore from Canfield, Ohio, fifth in after-dinner speaking at the second tournament.
• Amanda Langford, a freshman from Goodlettsville, Tennessee, sixth in persuasive speaking at the first tournament.

More: Check out the WKU Forensics Facebook page or follow @wkuforensics on Twitter.    

Contact: Ganer Newman, (270) 745-6340