UK Forensics Team Starts New Season on a Strong Note

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 23, 2015) — The University of Kentucky Forensics Team traveled to their first tournament of the new season this past weekend at Western Kentucky University. The Fall Forensics Fiesta tournament regularly boasts some of the most nationally competitive teams in the country. This year the competition included squads from as far away as Texas, California, Alabama, Michigan and North Carolina.

The Fall Forensics Fiesta is the season opener for many of these national teams. This year, UK Forensics debuted 21 new speeches at the tournament. Senior Abel Rodriguez III placed second in after dinner speaking and fourth in impromptu speaking earning the team its first two qualifications for the National Forensic Association national tournament in April. Additionally, the team spoke their way to a seventh place finish in the team sweepstakes category, a recognition earned by comparing the cumulative scores from all of the team members from each university.

The University of Kentucky Forensics Team’s next competition will be the For the Sake of Argument tournament held at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 2-4. The following weekend, the team will host the Bluegrass Invitational on UK’s campus.

Anyone interested in judging or observing this event should contact Director of Forensics Timothy Bill (timothy.bill@uky.edu) for more information.

UK Forensics is a student organization in the School of Information Science. The team competes in 12 different public speaking events and three forms of  debate. To find out more, visit ukforensics.com.

MEDIA CONTACT: Blair Hoover, (859) 257-6398; blair.hoover@uky.edu