News Release
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September 29, 2005
Boise State's National Champion Talkin'
Broncos Kick Off New Season with Win at CSI
The Boise State University debate and speech team kicked off the 2005-06
season by winning the College of Southern Idaho’s Golden Eagle Invitational
Tournament. The Talkin’ Broncos captured the CSI title for the fifth
consecutive year, and the seventh time in the eight-year history of the
competition. College debate teams from Idaho, Utah and Montana competed in
the event, held Sept. 23-24 in Twin Falls.
Boise State rolled up 112 team points to second-place Northwest Nazarene
University’s 51 points. Brigham Young University (48 points) finished third.
Team captains Kristin Davidson (senior, Winnipeg, Manitoba) and Hillary
Davidson (senior, Spokane, Wash.) led the Boise State scoring with
first-place finishes in five speaking events. Kristin Davidson won top
honors in Rhetorical Analysis, Informative Speaking and Program Oral
Interpretation, while Hillary Davidson won Prose Interpretation and Poetry
Interpretation. Chad Judy (sophomore, Idaho Falls) won Extemporaneous
Speaking, giving Boise State speakers six first-place awards in the eleven
speech events. Other top finishers for the Talkin’ Broncos were Miles
Stirewalt (senior, Pocatello), third in both Rhetorical Analysis and Speech
to Entertain; Camille Levi (senior, Nampa), third in Informative Speaking
and fourth in Persuasive Speaking; Jordan Park (freshman, Idaho Falls),
third in Persuasive Speaking and fifth in Informative Speaking; Barton
Jackson (junior, Eagle), second in Informative Speaking; Wayne Rysavy
(junior, Ramstein, Germany), third in Impromptu Speaking; and Jessica
Wingett (senior, Boise), fifth in Persuasive Speaking.
In debate competition, the Boise State team of Barton Jackson and Chad Judy
posted a perfect 8-0 record in winning the tournament’s open division of
debate. Hillary Davidson and Wayne Rysavy placed fifth and the team of
Kristin Davidson and Miles Stirewalt finished ninth in the open division.
Rick Martini (senior, Boise) and Jessica Wingett lost a 2-1 decision to BYU
in the finals to finish second in the tournament’s novice division.
The Boise State team returns to competition in three weeks when they travel
to Cameron University in Lawton, Okla., for the Pi Kappa Delta Bi-Province
Invitational Tournament.
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Contact: Marty Most, Department of Communication, (208) 426-1920,
mmost@boisesetate.edu
Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Relations, (208) 426-3275,
kcraven@boisestate.edu
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Last reviewed on Thursday, December 22, 2005