2008 Woodie Awards
Debate and Forensics has sucessful start
Molly Suter
Issue date: 10/24/08 Section: News
Only three tournaments into the season, and the debate and forensics team have already brought home a number of trophies and debated competitors from around the world.
So far this season, the Coyote speech team has participated in The University of Central Michigan "Mule Swing," the Sterling College and Barton Community College "Debates on a Plain" and last weekend the team traveled with their European friends to Arkansas for the John Brown University tournament. At the two previous tournaments, the teams participated in their ordinary events featuring both individual forensics events and parliamentary debate. During the opening two tournaments, the team brought home a number of trophies in individual events, debate and overall sweepstakes.
The tournaments are usually three day affairs with Friday being the debate tournament, and Saturday and Sunday being forensics individual events competitions. There is a small awards ceremony after the Friday and Saturday tournaments with a larger one on Sundays that includes the overall tournament trophies. However, the John Brown Tournament was a different story.
The traveling European debate team of Edward James (Great Brittan) and Derek Doyle (Ireland) came to Kansas to debate the KWU team of Noah Shook and Steve Johnston on Sunday in Fitzpatrick Theater. With the European debates being on Sunday at KWU, the team only participated in the debate portion of the JBU tournament featuring Parliamentary Debate and IPDA (individual public debate).
All three of the KWU Parliamentary debate teams broke into finals. Alyssa Davis and Audrey Riedl participated in IPDA, with Davis breaking into quarterfinals in the novice division. In Parliamentary Debate, teams Johnston and Meriah Forbes broke into quarterfinals, Becca Rodriguez and Shook broke into semi-finals.
John Mikolajcik and Justin Morse won the parliamentary debate tournament after facing a team from Louisiana State University, and a team from University of Tyler Texas in the final round. The team as a whole won third in overall debate sweepstakes.
After returning home from Arkansas, Johnston and Shook teamed up to take on the European team in a light-humored alternative style of debate Sunday afternoon in Fitzpatrick Auditorium.
This weekend the team will be traveling to Canyon, Texas to compete and co-host a swing tournament with West Texas A&M University. After that they head to the Louisiana State University tournament.
So far this season, the Coyote speech team has participated in The University of Central Michigan "Mule Swing," the Sterling College and Barton Community College "Debates on a Plain" and last weekend the team traveled with their European friends to Arkansas for the John Brown University tournament. At the two previous tournaments, the teams participated in their ordinary events featuring both individual forensics events and parliamentary debate. During the opening two tournaments, the team brought home a number of trophies in individual events, debate and overall sweepstakes.
The tournaments are usually three day affairs with Friday being the debate tournament, and Saturday and Sunday being forensics individual events competitions. There is a small awards ceremony after the Friday and Saturday tournaments with a larger one on Sundays that includes the overall tournament trophies. However, the John Brown Tournament was a different story.
The traveling European debate team of Edward James (Great Brittan) and Derek Doyle (Ireland) came to Kansas to debate the KWU team of Noah Shook and Steve Johnston on Sunday in Fitzpatrick Theater. With the European debates being on Sunday at KWU, the team only participated in the debate portion of the JBU tournament featuring Parliamentary Debate and IPDA (individual public debate).
All three of the KWU Parliamentary debate teams broke into finals. Alyssa Davis and Audrey Riedl participated in IPDA, with Davis breaking into quarterfinals in the novice division. In Parliamentary Debate, teams Johnston and Meriah Forbes broke into quarterfinals, Becca Rodriguez and Shook broke into semi-finals.
John Mikolajcik and Justin Morse won the parliamentary debate tournament after facing a team from Louisiana State University, and a team from University of Tyler Texas in the final round. The team as a whole won third in overall debate sweepstakes.
After returning home from Arkansas, Johnston and Shook teamed up to take on the European team in a light-humored alternative style of debate Sunday afternoon in Fitzpatrick Auditorium.
This weekend the team will be traveling to Canyon, Texas to compete and co-host a swing tournament with West Texas A&M University. After that they head to the Louisiana State University tournament.
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