CCU Speech and Debate Team

04/03/2023

LAST TOURNEY OF THE SEASON ‼️THANK YOU NCCFI!
Individual placings below:

Freshman Aiden Chandler:
3rd place Impromptu, 3rd place Homiletics, 2nd place in Extemporaneous, Top Novice Homiletics, Quarterfinalist in IPDA

Freshman Alyssa Cary:
5th place in Homiletics, 4th place in Informative, 3rd place in Extemporaneous, 2nd place in Impromptu, Top Novice in Informative, 3rd place overall speaker in IPDA, Semifinalist in IPDA

Freshman Liz Houlihan:
6th place in Homiletics, Top Novice in Persuade, Impromptu Semifinalist

Freshman Caleb Scott:
4th place overall IPDA speaker, IPDA Quarterfinalist

Sophomore Kayla Kenders:
4th place in Impromptu, Quarterfinalist in IPDA

Sophomore Alyssa Krug:
6th place Faith Lit, 4th place IPDA speaker

Sophomore Hadley Brillhart:
5th place IE sweeps, 4th place Poetry, 3rd place POI, 2nd place DI, 2nd place Faith Lit

Team sweepstakes: 3rd place overall in IEs!

Congrats to our WHOLE team!

03/19/2023

PDK 2023 ✅
Individual placings below:

Freshman Aiden Chandler: Extemp Quarterfinalist and Top Novice, IPDA Octofinalist and Impromptu 6th place and Top Novice!

Freshman Alyssa Cary: Extemp Quarterfinalist, IPDA Octofinalist, IPDA 6th place speaker, Editorial Impromptu Excellence Award

Sophomore Alyssa Krug: Impromptu Excellence Award

Sophomore Kayla Kenders: Extemp Excellence Award, Student Congress 5th place

Sophomore Hadley Brillhart: Poetry Quarterfinalist, Prose Quarterfinalist, DI Quarterfinalist, POI Semifinalist

LET’S GO COUGS‼️ CONGRATS TO THE WHOLE TEAM‼️

02/01/2022

This weekend the CCU Speech and Debate team competed at the 2022 Jannese Davidson Memorial Tournament in Irvine, California.

The results are below.

In Program Oral Interp:
Hadley Brillhart took 3rd place.

Informative:
Hadley Brillhart took 1st place and Kendall Woods took 3rd place

Dramatic Interp:

Hadley Brillhart took 1st place

After Dinner Speaking:

Emma Schultz was the best novice.

Poetry:

Hadley Brillhart took 1st place

Open Prose:

Hadley Brillhart took 2nd place

Open Persuasive (CCU was 4/4 finalists in this event):

Breck Frauenholtz took 1st place; Emily Bergman took 2nd place; Emma Schultz took 3rd place; Ana Dosianu took 4th place.

Novice Extemp:

Alyssa Krug took 2nd place; Maranatha Brueckner took 3rd place; Emma Schultz took 4th place

Open Extemp: Breck Frauenholtz took 1st place; Emily Bergman took 5th place

Novice Impromptu:
Alyssa Krug took 1st place; Kayla Kenders took 2nd place; Emma Schultz took 3rd place

Open Impromptu:

Emily Bergman took 5th place

Individual Sweepstakes:
Hadley Brillhart took 1st place; Alyssa Krug took 3rd place; Breck Frauenholtz took 4th place; and Emma Schultz took 5th place
Novice IPDA:

Gold - (CCU closeout) Alyssa Krug, Kayla Kenders;
Bronze - Quincy Tredway

Junior IPDA:

Gold - Breck Frauenholtz

Overall, CCU took 1st place in the university division.

11/07/2021

This weekend, the CCU Speech and Debate team competed in the Jack Lynch Debate and Speech Tournament

In novice IPDA debate

Freshman Maranatha Brueckner took 5th place in debate and 10th place for top speaker.

Freshman Alyssa Krug was 2nd top speaker.

Freshman Breck Frauenholtz was the novice IPDA top speaker.

In open IPDA,

Junior Kenny Lane was 6th top speaker.

In open impromptu,

Freshman Dalton Schwab took 6th place.

In open dramatic interpretation,

Freshman Hadley Brillhart took 1st place.

In open program oral interpretation,

Freshman Hadley Brillhart took 1st place.

In open prose interpretation,

Freshman Hadley Brillhart took 2nd place.

Overall, CCU took 4th place overall sweepstakes!!!

Way to go CCU Speech and Debate!

10/31/2021

This weekend, the CCU Speech and Debate team competed in the James 'Al' Johnson Forensic IE Swing tournament

In open IPDA debate

Senior Emily Bergman was a semi finalist.

In open impromptu,

Junior Ana Dosianu took 5th place.

Freshman Dalton Schwab was top novice.

In open dramatic interpretation,

Senior Kendall Woods took 3rd place.

In open persuade speaking,

Junior Ana Dosianu took 2nd place.

In open after dinner speaking,

Senior Kendall Woods took 2nd place.

Senior Emily Bergman took 3rd place.

In open program oral interpretation,

Senior Kendall Woods took 2nd place.

In open prose interpretation,

Senior Kendall Woods took 3rd place.

Overall, CCU took 1st place overall sweepstakes!!!

10/11/2021

This weekend, the CCU Speech and Debate team competed in the Steve Hunt classic tournament.

Here are the individual awards:

In junior informative speaking,

Freshman Emma Schultz took 5th place.

In junior dramatic interpretation,

Freshman Hadley Brillhart took 5th place.

In junior prose interpretation,

Freshman Hadley Brillhart took 2nd place.

In junior extemporaneous speaking,

Freshman Breck Frauenholtz took 4th place.

In junior after dinner speaking,

Senior Kendall Woods took 2nd place.

In novice impromptu speaking,

Freshman Kayla Kenders was a semi finalist.

In novice extemporaneous speaking,

Conner Toennis was a semi finalist.

In novice IPDA,

Freshman Kayla Kenders was an octo finialist.

Freshman Conner Toennis was a semi finalist.

In junior IPDA,

Freshman Breck Frauenholtz and Sam was an octofinalist

Freshman Alyssa Krug took 2nd place.

In senior IPDA,

Senior Emily Bergman was a semi finalist.

09/27/2021

This weekend, the CCU Speech and Debate team traveled to Powell, Wyoming to compete at our first tournament of the season at the Trapper Rendezvous tournament.

Here are the individual awards:

In IPDA Debate,

Breck Frauenholtz (freshman) was a quarter finalist.

In Extemp,

Breck Frauenholtz (freshman) and Maranatha Brueckner (freshman) were semi finalists.

In Impromptu,

Maranatha Brueckner (freshman) and Dalton Schwab (freshman) were semi finalists.

In Open After Dinner Speaking,

Emily Bergman (Senior) took 1st place.
Kendall Woods (Senior) took 2nd place.

In Open Informative Speaking,

Emma Schultz (Freshman) took 3rd place.

In Open Program Oral Interpretation,

Kendall Woods (Senior) took 4th place.

In Open Prose,

Kendall Woods (Senior) took 6th place.

08/27/2021

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04/11/2021

Emily Bergman debating the congressional filibuster in outrounds at nationals!

04/11/2021

Corbin Meacham debating ma*****na legalization in outrounds at IPDA Nationals.

04/03/2021

Last weekend, the CCU Speech and Debate Team competed at the National Christian Colleges Forensics Invitational. After four whole days of competition, the team took 2nd overall in the nation across all teams and divisions! What a great way to end the individual events portion of our season. We are wrapping up our season next weekend at IPDA Debate Nationals.

03/21/2021

Late post: several weeks ago, the CCU Speech and Debate Team competed at SNAFU #6 hosted by Cornell University. Overall, the team took 2nd at the entire tournament (3rd overall in debate and 4th overall in individual events). We defeated schools George Mason University, Seton Hall University, and Cornell University.

In After Dinner Speaking

Corbin Meacham took 6th place

In Dramatic Interpretation

Corbin Meacham took 3rd place

In Duo Interpretation

Corbin Meacham and Emily Bergman took 4th place

In Impromptu Speaking

Shoshanna Howey took 3rd place
Emily Bergman took 4th place

In Informative Speaking

Cheyenne Brown took 2nd place

In Program Oral Interpretation

Corbin Meacham took 6th place
Cheyenne Brown took 7th place

In Prose Interpretation

Kendall Woods took 3rd place