|
News Release
January 24, 2007
Boise State Forensics Team
Tops at Clackamas Tourney
The Boise State debate and speech team extended its winning streak to 12
consecutive tournaments, winning the Clackamas College Invitational Tournament
in Portland, Ore., last weekend. The Talkin’ Broncos scored 16 first- and
second-place finishes in the tournament’s 12 events to secure the win, despite
competing with only half the team present. The other half of the Boise State
team will travel to the Webster University Invitational in St. Louis this
weekend, a strategy designed to prepare the team for competition at the Pi Kappa
Delta National Tournament in March.
The Talkin’ Broncos open division debate teams rolled through the tournament
undefeated. The team of Barton Jackson (senior, Eagle) and Chad Judy (junior,
Idaho Falls) and the team of Kate Henry (freshman, Coeur d’Alene) and Jordan
Park (sophomore, Idaho Falls) finished as open division co-champions. Boise
State’s novice debate team of Shannon Morgan (freshman, Caldwell) and Sean
Watson (junior, Kimberly) placed third in their division. Overall, Boise State
debaters compiled a 15-2 record and placed four debaters — Jackson, Judy,
Park
and Watson — on the All-Tournament Debate Team.
Watson was also Boise State’s top scorer in individual speaking events, winning
both novice Extemporaneous Speaking and Speech to Entertain, finishing second in
both Rhetorical Analysis and novice Persuasive Speaking and placing fourth in
novice Impromptu Speaking. Team co-captain Jackson won two events, open
Extemporaneous Speaking and open Impromptu Speaking, and recorded second-place
finishes in both Informative Speaking and Poetry Interpretation. Park, the
Talkin’ Broncos’ other co-captain, won both Informative Speaking and Rhetorical
Analysis, placed second in Persuasive Speaking and finished third in Speech to
Entertain. Judy won Program Oral Interpretation and was second in Impromptu
Speaking, third in Informative Speaking and fourth in Extemporaneous Speaking.
Henry added two third-place awards in Prose Interpretation and Poetry
Interpretation, and Morgan placed second in novice Poetry Interpretation to
round out Boise State’s scoring.
Boise State finished with 126.2 team points to outpace second-place Mt. Hood
College (Ore.) with 110.7 points, and Clark College (Wash.) with 96.8 points.
Boise State has not lost a tournament since February 2005, a streak that
includes the 2005 Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament and last year’s Great West
Regional Tournament.
After next week’s Webster University tournament, the Boise State team will
reunite and travel to Corvallis, Ore., for the Feb. 8-12 Earl Wells Memorial
Tournament at Oregon State University.
-30-
Contact: Marty Most, Department of Communication, (208) 426-1920,
mmost@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208)
426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu
We’re proud to be the home of the undefeated, Fiesta Bowl champion Broncos,
the national champion student speech and debate team, and the nation’s
12th-ranked engineering program among public, comprehensive universities.
The Office of Communications and Marketing
-
Boise State University
1910 University Drive -
Boise Idaho 83725-1030
Located in Capitol Village, 2225 W. University Drive
208-426-1577
(fax)208-426-4001
email
communications@boisestate.edu
Last reviewed on
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
|