April 2012
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April 2012
LCHS Speech Qualifies 6 Students to Nationals – Wins Two Championships LCHS Speech competed at the KCFL State Qualifier this past Saturday to earn spots on the Kentucky entry to the NCFL Grand National Tournament. The national tournament will be held over the Memorial Day weekend in Baltimore, Maryland this May, and LaRue represents 6 of the 50 entries Kentucky will be taking, and two LCHS students earned top spots in the process. Junior James Reding took 1st at the qualifier in Congress for the third year in a row, and Freshman Brian Anderson won the Extemp championship. Other students who will represent LCHS and Kentucky at the national tournament are Chelsea th Blair, 4 Place in Oratory; Curtis Milby, 4th Place in Prose/Poetry, and Elijah Thomas and Alison Schurfeld, 6th Place in Duo Interp. “These national tournaments are unique in that when we go, we are all one large Kentucky team competing against the teams from the other states who come to the tournament. The team is made up of students from several schools that compete on the state level to earn spots on the overall team,” explained Katy Blair Cecil, the team’s head coach. “This young team has held their own, and definitely lived up to the legacy that their predecessors created. I am very pleased with our results.” Last year at the 2011 Nationals Timmy Gibson, a 2011 graduate, took 3rd Place in the nation in Prose/Poetry while Ian Mather advanced to semi‐finals in Prose/Poetry, and Jeshua Logsdon and Angelia Whitlock advanced to quarters in Duo. Mather, Logsdon, and Whitlock are all 2011 graduates as well. Cecil expects to have good results this year, “These students continue to