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News Release
February 12, 2007
BSU Talkin' Broncos Score Another Win at Corvallis Tournament
The Boise State speech and debate team won 39 individual awards and rolled to an
easy victory at the Wells Memorial Forensics Tournament at Oregon State
University in Corvallis, Ore., Feb. 9-11. The Talkin’ Broncos dominated a field
of 18 colleges and universities from California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington,
scoring 374 team points to second-place Willamette University’s 90. Pacific
University was third (87 points), the University of Oregon fourth (72) and host
Oregon State fifth (69). Boise State’s senior team captain Barton Jackson
(Eagle) received the Minette Phillips Award as the tournament’s outstanding
competitor.
Six of Boise State’s seven two-member debate teams reached the tournament
quarterfinals. In the junior division of Parliamentary Debate, the teams of
Regan Charlton (freshman, Inkom) and Jordan Park (sophomore, Idaho
Falls), and Katy Jibben (senior, Boise) and Sean Watson (junior,
Kimberly), both advanced from the semifinals on 2-1 decisions and shared
first-place honors. In senior division, Jackson and Chad Judy
(junior, Idaho Falls) tied for fifth place with Wayne Rysavy (senior,
Ramstein, Germany) and Travis Walker (freshman, Idaho Falls). The junior
division team of Ernest Dunlap (freshman, Kuna) and Evan Meriwether
(freshman, Boise) finished fifth, as did the novice division team of Ben
Bishop (sophomore, Meridian) and Hillari Taresh (freshman,
Pocatello). Judy was named the Outstanding Debater in senior division and
joined Jackson, Park, Tyler Leatham (freshman, Pocatello) and Watson
on the All-Tournament debate team.
In individual speaking events, Jibben led the Talkin’ Broncos in scoring
with first-place finishes in Persuasive Speaking and Oral Interpretation of
Prose, and added third-place awards in Informative Speaking, Speech to Entertain
and Poetry Interpretation. She also placed second in the Pentathlon competition.
Other top award winners for Boise State were Watson, who was first in
both Rhetorical Analysis and Extemporaneous Speaking, and third in Persuasive
Speaking; Rysavy, who finished first in Impromptu and third in Program
Oral Interpretation; Jackson, who was first in Informative Speaking and
second in Impromptu Speaking; Bishop, who was second in novice Impromptu
and fourth in Persuasive Speaking; Charlton, who was second in
Informative Speaking; Shannon Morgan (freshman, Caldwell), who was second
in Poetry Interpretation; and Jennifer Manship (fr., Idaho Falls), who
was first in novice Program Oral Interpretation.
The Talkin’ Broncos conclude their season in three weeks when they defend their
national title at the Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament, hosted by Central
Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Mich., March 7-10.
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Contact: Marty Most, Department of Communication, (208) 426-1920,
mmost@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208)
426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
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