News Release

DEPARTMENT NEWS RELEASE/January 31, 2008

BSU Talkin' Broncos Win 2008 Northwest Forensics Conference Sweepstakes

The Boise State University Talkin’ Broncos continued their strong season with a win that garnered the overall sweepstakes award in the Northwest Forensics Conference. The award is based on overall team performance at three designated NFC tournaments.

Three Talkin’ Broncos were honored for their individual accomplishments in speech and debate at the William O. Douglas Forensics Tournament at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., this past weekend. Emile Huseynov (junior, Azerbaijan) received the Orv Iverson Award for the top novice competitors in the Northwest Conference. Erik Sande (junior, Boise) was a top-ten finisher for the Iverson award, and Chad Judy (senior, Idaho Falls) was recognized as one of the ten best speakers overall in the NFC with the 2008 Coach’s Commemorative Award.

Boise competitors were named as the top debaters in a field of 20 schools at the tournament, with Huseynov, Regan Charlton (sophomore, Inkom) and Aaron Olson (freshman, Bremerton, Wash.) all placing within the top ten among more than 160 debaters.

In novice parliamentary debate, Huseynov and Olson were finalists, taking second overall at the tournament. The team of Charlton and Kate Henry (sophomore, Coeur d’Alene) finished as quarter-finalist in junior division debate, and the novice division team of Adam Siler (freshman, Meridian) and Nick Fowler (senior, Wendell) also advanced through the final rounds of debate, finishing as quarter-finalists.

In individual events, Ben Bishop (junior, Meridian) led the Talkin’ Broncos in scoring with a first-place finish in Informative Speaking, a second-place finish in Rhetorical Criticism and a fourth-place finish in Impromptu Speaking. Other top finishes included Alex Dorofeev (junior, Murmansk, Russia), who placed first in Extemporaneous Speaking and was a finalist in Impromptu Speaking; Ben Larsen (freshman, Raft River) who placed first in novice Oral Interpretation of Poetry; and Olson, who placed first in Persuasive Speaking. Other top award-winners for Boise State were Charlton, who placed fourth in Informative Speaking and was a finalist in both Oral Interpretation of Poetry and Persuasive Speaking; Huseynov, who placed second in Persuasive Speaking and was a semi-finalist in Extemporaneous Speaking; Sande, who placed fifth in Impromptu Speaking and was a semi-finalist in Extemporaneous Speaking; and Henry, who placed fourth in Oral Interpretation of Drama.

The Talkin’ Broncos competed with all Northwest Forensics Conference schools over three designated tournaments to win the Northwest first-place sweepstakes award. Their next competition will be Jan. 31-Feb. 3 at Point Loma University in San Diego, Calif.

For more information on the team or the program, contact Manda Hicks, interim director of forensics, at 426-1928 or mandahicks@boisestate.edu.

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Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

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Last reviewed on Thursday, January 31, 2008