Klugesherz top speaker at Bronco Forensics team’s first tournament

At the Debates on a Plain in Hutchinson, Kansas, from September 27-28, Miranda Klugesherz, a senior from Colorado Springs, Colorado, won the individual event sweepstakes on the first day of competition. She placed first in Informative Speaking and Program of Oral Interpretation; second in After Dinner Speaking; and third in Communication Analysis. Additionally, she advanced to semi-finals in Prose Interpretation.

Overall, the Bronco Forensics team, competing in its first tournament of the year, placed third on the first day, fourth on the second day and fourth for the weekend. Other individual results follow.

Next weekend, the Broncos will compete in the Clover Classic hosted by Doane College.

Saturday, September 27, 2014 – hosted by Hutchinson Community College

Trischia Rueckert, a junior from Beloit, Kansas

                                                                                    6^th Place, Impromptu Speaking

                                                                                    6^th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking

Laurel Teal, a sophomore from Castle Rock, Colorado 

                                                                                    Semi-finals, Impromptu Speaking

Saturday, September 28, 2014 – hosted by Sterling College

Klugesherz                                                              

                                                                                    1^st place, Informative Speaking

                                                                                    1^st place, After Dinner Speaking

                                                                                    2^nd place, Communication Analysis

                                                                                    4^th place, Individual Event Sweepstakes

Teal Timperly, a junior from Lynch, Nebraska

                                                                                    6^th place, Dramatic Interpretation

                                                                                    7^th place, Prose Interpretation

Rueckert                                                                   6^th place, Communication Analysis

Tommy Hendrix, a junior from Omaha, Nebraska

                                                                                   6^th place, Poetry Interpretation