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SPEAKING BEARCATS NAMED OVERALL CHAMPION AT TOURNAMENTS
BOLIVAR, Mo. – The Southwest Baptist University Speaking Bearcats opened the 2018-2019 traveling season by being crowned the overall champion at the Missouri Mule/Dale Carnegie Swing speech and debate tournaments Oct. 19-21, hosted by the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg.
Squaring off against teams from 22 other colleges and universities, the team won the overall individual event sweepstakes championships of both tournaments and the overall combined sweepstakes championships of both.
“We were pleased by the results and the hard work our team put in to achieve them,” said Dr. David Bailey, director of forensics. “Swing tournaments are a challenge. The students do two full days (approximately 12-13 hours) of competition, and then get up early on the third day to do it again. It represents a great chance for our young team to get some vital competitive experience over the course of three days.”
Speaking Bearcats’ Missouri Mule tournament highlights included:
• Christina Foltz (sophomore) – first place in novice parliamentary debate championship (with freshman Mitchell Huston); sixth in parliamentary debate speaker awards; top novice in duo interpretation (with sophomore Alexa Bell); sixth in dramatic interpretation.
• Jeffrey Metzler (junior) – quarter finalist in parliamentary debate (with junior Mariah Gilmore); fourth in duo interpretation (with freshman Mitchell Huston).
• Mitchell Huston (freshman) – third in parliamentary debate speaker awards; fourth in duo interpretation (with junior Jeffrey Metzler); third in duo interpretation (with junior Mariah Gilmore).
• Mikayla Throne (senior) – champion in program of oral interpretation; champion in duo interpretation (with sophomore Katelyn Bloom); semifinalist in parliamentary debate (with freshman Spencer VanSickle); sixth in after-dinner speaking; fourth place in impromptu speaking; second place in informative speaking; second place in prose interpretation; first in the Pentathlon competition.
• Marisa Mayo (senior) – champion in impromptu speaking; quarter finalist in public forum debate (with senior Andrew DeShon); second place in the open division of public forum speaker awards; fourth in after-dinner speaking; fourth in extemporaneous speaking; second place in persuasive speaking; third place in informative speaking; second place in the Pentathlon competition.
• Alexa Bell (sophomore) – third place in public forum speaker awards; top novice in duo interpretation (with Foltz); top novice in program of oral interpretation; sixth place in program of oral interpretation.
• Abbie Andrews (sophomore) – fifth place in the novice division of public forum.
• Katelyn Bloom (sophomore) – champion in duo interpretation (with senior Mikayla Throne); sixth place in the open division of public forum speaker awards.
• Turner McCrackin (junior) – top novice in impromptu speaking.
• Jessica Paxton (freshman) – top novice in after-dinner speaking; third in after-dinner speaking.
• Breanna Prater (sophomore) – sixth place in extemporaneous speaking; fifth place in communication analysis.
• Andrew DeShon (senior) – quarter finalist in public forum debate (with senior Marisa Mayo); fifth place in extemporaneous speaking; sixth place in communication analysis; fourth place in persuasive speaking; fourth place in informative speaking; fifth place in the Pentathlon competition.
• Mariah Gilmore (junior) – third place in duo interpretation (with freshman Mitchell Huston); sixth place in impromptu speaking.
• Autumn Lyon (freshman) – fifth place in poetry interpretation.
Dale Carnegie Tournament
• Evan Kirksey (sophomore) – top novice in persuasion; third place in persuasive speaking.
• Bell – top novice in after-dinner speaking; top novice in duo interpretation (with Foltz); fourth place in program of oral interpretation; fourth place in duo interpretation (with Foltz.)
• Huston – top novice in impromptu; sixth place in duo interpretation (with Gilmore); second place in duo interpretation (with Metzler.)
• Foltz – top novice in duo interpretation (with Bell); fourth in duo interpretation (with Bell.)
• Prater – fourth in communication analysis; fourth in persuasive speaking; fourth place in extemporaneous speaking; sixth in after-dinner speaking; fourth place in the Pentathlon competition.
• DeShon – fifth place in communication analysis; sixth in informative speaking; second in impromptu speaking; fifth place in the Pentathlon competition.
• Throne – champion in after-dinner speaking; fifth place in program of oral interpretation; third place in duo interpretation (with Bloom); fifth in informative speaking; second in prose interpretation; third in impromptu speaking; second place in the Pentathlon competition.
• Metzler – second place in persuasive speaking; second in duo interpretation (with Huston).
• Mayo – champion in persuasive speaking; second place in extemporaneous speaking; second in after-dinner speaking; third place in informative speaking;first in impromptu speaking; champion in the Pentathlon competition.
• Gilmore – sixth place in duo interpretation (with Huston).
• Bloom – third place in duo interpretation (with Throne).
• Paxton – fourth place in dramatic interpretation.
The team is busy preparing for the Falcon Classic and Birds of a Feather Swing tournament Nov. 17-18 at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. For more information about SBU Speech and Debate, please contact Bailey at (417) 328-1697 or dbailey@SBUniv.edu.
CUTLINE: (Front row, left to right): Katelyn Bloom, Mikayla Throne, Evan Kirksey, Breanna Prater, Turner McCrackin, Marisa Mayo, Mariah Gilmore and Mitchell Huston. (Back row, left to right): Andrew DeShon, Abbie Andrews, Alexa Bell, Autumn Lyon, Christina Foltz, Jessica Paxton, Jeffrey Metzler and Spencer VanSickle.
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