Topic: College of Communication Information and Media

March 6, 2007

For the third straight year, Ball State University's speech team won the Indiana State Tournament in Indianapolis.

The team recently earned six individual first-place awards during the competition Feb. 17 at Butler University. The team is under the direction of Mary Moore, a communication studies instructor.

Individual honors include:

  • Kyleen Ammerman: first in impromptu; second in program oral interpretation, after dinner speaking and poetry; and third in informative
  • Jessy Estell: second in novice informative and fifth in novice prose and duo interpretation
  • Amanda Hendrix: second in novice persuasion and fourth in novice prose
  • Nicole Lengerich: first in persuasion, third in rhetorical criticism, fourth in impromptu and poetry, and seventh in dramatic interpretation
  • Jade Metzger: fourth in novice poetry and rhetorical criticism and fifth in novice impromptu
  • Brittany Perry: fifth in poetry
  • Lindsay Rice: first in novice persuasion, dramatic interpretation and novice prose; and third in novice poetry
  • Cori Smith: first in novice informative, fourth in dramatic interpretation and fifth in novice impromptu and duo interpretation
  • Cassie Thullen: second in informative and rhetorical criticism

By Jody Kress