BOWLING GREEN, OH – In March five of our novices traveled to Bowling Green State University in Ohio for the Novice National tournament. Lafayette has a long history of success and even novice national championships and that success continued in 2019.  Lauren Stango is the 2019 Novice National Champion  in Prose Interpretation!  We are so proud of the novices and expect big things from them in the future.  The tournament is excellent preparation for the rest of the national tournament calendar and sets the students up for success and education as their first year comes to a close.

Lauren Stango – 1st place Prose, 3rd place Impromptu Sales, 4th place Dramatic Interpretation
Kelly Mwaamba – 2nd place Poetry Interpretation, 5th place Impromptu Sales, 5th place Slam Poetry, 6th place Dramatic Interpretation
Lia Charles – 4th place Rhetorical Criticism, 4th place Slam Poetry, 5th place Persuasion

Team Sweepstakes – 4th place