The new school year brings a new leader for one of Western Kentucky University’s most prestigious programs.
For 24 straight years, the program has won the Kentucky Forensic Association State championship. The speech and debate program has also won numerous national and international awards.
But the person who has overseen that program for the last four years, Jace Lux, was recently named the Director of Recruitment and Admissions at WKU That opened the door for Ganer Newman IV to return to the university as Director of Forensics.
He spent the last year at Illinois State University, but before that earned his degree from WKU and was an assistant coach for the forensics team. Newman starts Monday.
