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DEPARTMENT NEWS RELEASE/February 8, 2008

BSU Talkin' Broncos Take Consecutive Awards in California Tourneys

The Boise State University Talkin’ Broncos were awarded third-place sweepstakes at both the Southwestern Swing, held at Southwestern College in National City, Calif., and the Sunset Cliffs Classic, held at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, Calif.

In parliamentary debate, the teams of Chad Judy (senior, Idaho Falls) and Regan Charlton (sophomore, Inkom) and Ben Bishop (junior, Meridian) and Erik Sande (junior, Boise) both advanced to final rounds of competition in a field of more than 60 schools. Boise competitors were named as the top debaters at the tournament, with Kate Henry (sophomore, Coeur d’Alene) finishing in the top 10 and Debra Groberg (freshman, Idaho Falls) finishing in the top 20 in a field of more than 150 debaters.

In individual events, Aaron Olsen (freshman, Bremerton, Wash.) led the Talkin’ Broncos in scoring for the tournaments with a first-place finish in both novice Informative Speaking and novice Persuasive Speaking, and a second-place finish in novice Informative Speaking. Other top finishes included Ben Larsen (freshman, Raft River) who tied for first place in novice Oral Interpretation of Drama; Bishop, who placed second in Senior Informative Speaking and was a finalist in Rhetorical Analysis and Impromptu; Charlton, who placed second in Rhetorical Analysis and was a finalist in Informative Speaking; Sande, who placed second in novice Informative Speaking and was a semi-finalist in Impromptu Speaking; Judy, who was a finalist in both Extemporaneous Speaking and Impromptu Speaking; Alex Dorofeev (junior, Murmansk, Russia), who was a finalist in both novice Extemporaneous Speaking and novice Impromptu Speaking; and Emil Huseynov (junior, Azerbaijan), who was a semi-finalist in novice Impromptu Speaking.

The Talkin’ Broncos, sponsored by the Jeker Family Trust, competed with 60 schools from 15 states to take third in sweepstakes. Their next competition will be Feb. 24 at Willamette University in Salem, Ore.

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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