The UWEC Forensics Team travelled to UW-Whitewater on Friday and Saturday (2/19-20/16) to compete at the 2016 Wisconsin Collegiate Forensics State Tournament. UWEC Forensics has been the reigning state champions for the past 31 years and set the goal of bringing home the 32nd championship trophy. We met our goal and brought home quite a bit more. In addition to being crowned the champion in Team Sweepstakes, UWEC took 1st place in 10 of the 11 events offered.
One of the championships, UWEC won was in Oratory which means that UWEC will be one of the two schools representing the State of Wisconsin at the Interstate Oratory Contest at the University of Nebraska-Omaha on April 22-24,2016. Senior Elijah Freeman will be attending this tournament and representing UWEC for the second time in his career. He qualified for IOC his sophomore year and advanced to Semi-Finals.
Here are the specific placings from this weekend. If you see these students, please congratulate them.
Impromptu Speaking—6th place—Heidi Feyereisen (senior)
Impromptu Speaking—2nd place—Jake Wrasse (senior)
Impromptu Speaking—1st place—Ben Thompson Isaac (senior)
Informative Speaking—5th place—Jake Wrasse
Informative Speaking—4th place--Tennisha Sonsalla (sophomore)
Informative Speaking—3rd place-- Heidi Feyereisen
Informative Speaking—2nd place --Alex Brown (senior)
Informative Speaking—1st place--Elijah Freeman (senior)
Prose Interpretation—3rd place—Tennisha Sonsalla
Prose Interpretation—2nd place –Ben Thompson Isaac
Prose Interpretation—1st place—Sydney Tupy (sophomore)
Extemporaneous Speaking—3rd place--Elijah Freeman
Extemporaneous Speaking—2nd place--Alex Brown
Extemporaneous Speaking—1st place—Jake Wrasse
Duo Interpretation—2nd place—Sydney Tupy/Maddy Hinze (freshman)
Duo Interpretation—1s place—Sydney Tupy/Ben Thompson Isaac
Program Oral Interpretation—2nd place—Ben Thompson Isaac
Program Oral Interpretation—1st place—Tennisha Sonsalla
Oratory—5th place—Taylor Turben (junior)
Oratory—4th place—Jake Wrasse
Oratory—3rd place—Alex Brown
Oratory—1st place—Elijah Freeman (quals for IOC)
After-Dinner Speaking—5th place –Heidi Feyereisen
After-Dinner Speaking—2nd place—Alex Brown
After-Dinner Speaking—1st place—Elijah Freeman
Communication Analysis—5th place—Jake Wrasse
Communication Analysis—3rd place—Ben Thompson Isaac
Communication Analysis—2nd place—Alex Brown
Communication Analysis—1st place—Elijah Freeman
Dramatic Interpretation—1st place—Ben Thompson Isaac
Poetry Interpretation—4th place—Maddy Hinze
Poetry Interpretation—2nd place—Sydney Tupy
Individual Sweepstakes:
5th place—UWEC Jake Wrasse
4th place—UWEC Tennisha Sonsalla
3rd place—UWEC Alex Brown
2nd place—UWEC Elijah Freeman
1st place—UWEC Ben Thompson Isaac
Team Sweepstakes:
1st place—UWEC
UWEC to host National Forensics Association National Championships (April 13-17, 2017)