Forensics takes state champion title

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 32^nd 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 1^st 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—6^th place—Heidi Feyereisen (senior)

Impromptu Speaking—2^nd place—Jake Wrasse (senior)

Impromptu Speaking—1^st place—Ben Thompson Isaac (senior)

Informative Speaking—5^th place—Jake Wrasse

Informative Speaking—4^th place--Tennisha Sonsalla (sophomore)

Informative Speaking—3^rd place-- Heidi Feyereisen

Informative Speaking—2^nd place --Alex Brown (senior)

Informative Speaking—1^st place--Elijah Freeman (senior)

Prose Interpretation—3^rd place—Tennisha Sonsalla

Prose Interpretation—2^nd place –Ben Thompson Isaac

Prose Interpretation—1^st place—Sydney Tupy (sophomore)

Extemporaneous Speaking—3^rd place--Elijah Freeman

Extemporaneous Speaking—2^nd place--Alex Brown

Extemporaneous Speaking—1^st place—Jake Wrasse

Duo Interpretation—2^nd place—Sydney Tupy/Maddy Hinze (freshman)

Duo Interpretation—1s place—Sydney Tupy/Ben Thompson Isaac

Program Oral Interpretation—2^nd place—Ben Thompson Isaac

Program Oral Interpretation—1^st place—Tennisha Sonsalla

Oratory—5^th place—Taylor Turben (junior)

Oratory—4^th place—Jake Wrasse

Oratory—3^rd place—Alex Brown

Oratory—1^st place—Elijah Freeman (quals for IOC)

After-Dinner Speaking—5^th place –Heidi Feyereisen

After-Dinner Speaking—2^nd place—Alex Brown

After-Dinner Speaking—1^st place—Elijah Freeman

Communication Analysis—5^th place—Jake Wrasse

Communication Analysis—3^rd place—Ben Thompson Isaac

Communication Analysis—2^nd place—Alex Brown

Communication Analysis—1^st place—Elijah Freeman

Dramatic Interpretation—1^st place—Ben Thompson Isaac

Poetry Interpretation—4^th place—Maddy Hinze

Poetry Interpretation—2^nd place—Sydney Tupy

Individual Sweepstakes:

5^th place—UWEC Jake Wrasse

4^th place—UWEC Tennisha Sonsalla

3^rd place—UWEC Alex Brown

2^nd place—UWEC Elijah Freeman

1^st place—UWEC Ben Thompson Isaac

Team Sweepstakes:

1^st place—UWEC

UWEC to host National Forensics Association National Championships (April 13-17, 2017)