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Trail Staff Writer
The Northwest College forensics team traveled to Ontario, Calif., Feb. 17-19 for the Western States’ Tournament. Of 15 schools in attendance, NWC placed second in community college sweepstakes.
All NWC team members that attended received an award. In the individual category events, Jared Bressler placed third in extemporaneous speaking, third in impromptu speaking and third in communication analysis.
In the open division of prose interpretation, Bryce Cornatzer placed third and placed first in the junior division of dramatic interpretation.
In the open division of this event, Chelsea Hampton placed sixth while Grant Langdon placed first. Hampton placed fifth in the open division of poetry, first in the junior division of prose interpretation and was the top junior competitor in the program oral interpretation.
Pat Anderson received a second place finish in extemporaneous speaking and first place in impromptu speaking.
In duet interpretation Langdon and Brett Delaney place third in the open division and in the junior division, Sara Holwenger and Megan Read placed first. Holwenger also placed first in the junior division of informative speaking. Michaela Coats received a third place award in the open division of this event as well.
Charlie Cordova placed third in the junior division of prose interpretation behind Langdon’s second place finish. Delaney received a fourth-place award in after-dinner speaking and a second place in dramatic interpretation.
NWC also competed in the open division of debate rounds. Anderson and Cordova made it to the quarterfinals and were put out by a team from University of the Pacific. Delaney and Bressler made it to the semifinals and were also beat by a team from Pacific.
The teams of Coats and Reed, Hampton and Holwegner and Langdon and Cornatzer tied for first in the junior division. Holwenger, Hampton, Anderson and Delaney received fifth place, fourth place, second place and first place, respectively, in junior speaker awards, while Anderson and Delaney placed eighth and seventh place in the open division.