{"id":5774,"date":"2011-04-08T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=5774"},"modified":"2011-04-08T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:16:24","slug":"trumpeteers-debaters-bring-home-national-honors-for-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2011\/04\/trumpeteers-debaters-bring-home-national-honors-for-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpeteers, debaters bring home national honors for Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"

So we just mentioned Monday<\/a> how so many students give of their time to represent Baylor in competition — not only in athletics, but across a variety of fields. Since then, I’ve come across two recent examples of Baylor students excelling on a national level; one group reached the Elite Eight, while another brought home a national championship for BU!<\/p>\n

We’ve covered Baylor’s historically prestigious Glenn R. Capp Debate Forum<\/a> before on Baylor Proud, and they were at it again last month, as juniors John Cook and Ashley Morgan reached the quarterfinals of the National Debate Tournament<\/a> before falling to the eventual national champions, a team from Northwestern. Baylor was the last team from Texas left in this year’s tournament, adding another outstanding finish to a resume that includes three national championships and nine Final Four appearances.<\/p>\n

Outdoing even the debaters, a six-member trumpet ensemble from Baylor’s School of Music won first place and was awarded $4,000 at the National Trumpet Competition<\/a> last month in Fairfax, Va. The title-winning team — made up of graduate students Steffen Baral and Beth Peroutka, seniors Simon Bosch, Andy Lott and Chelsea Orr, and sophomore Manny Munoz — performed “Abstracts No. 2,” composed by Robert Russell and arranged by Wiff Rudd, BMEd ’77, professor of trumpet and brass area chair at Baylor. (See that performance in the video<\/a> below.) Baylor was the only university to have two teams among the competition’s seven recognized finalists, as another four-member ensemble (junior Joseph Underwood, and freshmen Tyler Brinkman, Ben Hauser and Taylor Williamson) was also recognized.<\/p>\n