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NEWS RELEASE
Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu
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News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466
4/12/2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATCHITOCHES Students from Northwestern State University captured two national titles at the Association of Information Technology Professionals National Collegiate Championship in Atlanta.
Computer information systems students from NSU won their fifth consecutive national championship in systems analysis as the team of Tracy Leeper of Lufkin, Texas, and LaCarlos Williams of Monroe won first place.
The team of Jeremy Wilmot of Zwolle and Chad Vicknair of Montz won first place in COBOL.
Northwestern has won first place in various categories at the AITP National Collegiate Championship nine times in five years.
The team of Erin Ponville of Franklin and Chris Gregory of Natchitoches finished second in systems analysis while Adam Williams of Alexandria and Callista Salazar-Cobb of Campti was third.
Leeper and Brandi Bourgoyne of Melville were fourth in database followed by the team of Janice Austin of Winnfield and Beth Anderson of Sulphur.
Coordinator of computer information systems Dr. Jack Russell, who accompanied the 28 NSU students to Atlanta, received the "Goes the Extra Mile" Award from AITP.
NSU's student chapter of AITP was named the Outstanding Student Chapter in the nation for the second consecutive year.