HPU junior Rylee Burden won the IPDA open debate division and earned third place overall individual sweeps at the DFW Swing tournament

HPU’s Student Speaker Bureau speech and debate team recently competed at the DFW Swing tournament at Texas Christian University (TCU). Junior Rylie Burden, Guy D. Newman Honors Academy and jurisprudence major from Lubbock, won the International Public Debate Association (IPDA) open debate division and earned third place overall individual sweeps. Burden also won the tournament last year.

“I was so excited to win this tournament,” said Burden. “To come back and perform well again at the DFW Swing was an amazing experience.”

Dr. Julie Welker, professor of communication, chair of the Department of Communication and coach of the team, said that Burden is com

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