Auburn’s Fred Tse was among 14 Western Washington University theater students who won awards at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival on Feb. 18-23 in Sacramento, Calif.

Tse has a full scholarship to attend Colorado State University summer programs in stage combat.

Thirty-five WWU theater students and its improv troupe, The Dead Parrots Society, participated. The festival is part of a national theater program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities and has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the country.

Participating Western students competed against students from Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, northern California and northern Nevada.