by Kaitlin Kinsella (’17)

WEST CHESTER, PA – On Saturday, October 11, 2014 Lafayette’s Speech Team competed for the first time at West Chester University for the 2014-2015 year. This year there were fourteen schools competing at West Chester. Lafayette’s Team was represented by four novices: freshmen Bilal Akbar ’18 and Aaron Walker ’18, junior Jen Bognar ’16, and senior Joe Arrieta ’15. Akbar and Walker represented Lafayette in extemp, while Bognar and Arrieta competed in prose in their first tournament with the team.

The four novices were wonderful representatives of Lafayette and made the Speech Team proud. The tournament is important for the team because it exposes and introduces the novices to the forensics community. The team is really excited to see what will happen with this new generation of the Lafayette College Forensics Society. Next, we’ll be traveling to Marshall University in West Virginia for a speech and debate tournament on October 25-26. This is going to be a great year for Lafayette Forensics!