The first week of October was an exciting time for Truman Forensics. While the campus was enjoying Fall Break, the team was busy competing at 4 tournaments. Across OATS #1, PKD Public Forum #1, and the Missouri Mule/Carnegie Swing, the team secured 35 more national qualifications, bringing the total this semester up to 39 for the National Forensic Association (NFA) tournament. The team brought back a total of 107 awards, one of the largest single-week successes the team has had in twenty years. Associate Director of Forensics, Lars Wagener, is thrilled with the team’s hard work and “downright ecstatic to see what the rest of the season holds.” To qualify for the NFA tournament, students must reach a sufficiently-sized elimination round in a regular-season tournament. The tally below documents the impressive showing across these four tournaments.
TOTAL NFA QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE WEEK: 35
TOTAL AFA QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE WEEK: 6
CUMULATIVE NFA QUALIFICATIONS TO DATE (INCLUDING DEBATE): 39
TOTAL AWARDS FOR THE WEEK: 107
Pi Kappa Delta Public Forum Debate Tournament Series #1
- Eric Rotert (1st-year) and Sawyer Partney (2nd-year) – Semifinalists
- Sawyer Partney (2nd-year) – 4th Speaker
- Payten Luaders (3rd-year) – 7th Speaker
- Ashton Mullen (3rd-year) – 9th Speaker
Online Asynchronous Tournament Series #1
- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) and Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 4th Place in Duo Interpretation (NFA Qualification)
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – 4th Place and Top Novice in Extemporaneous Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – Semifinalist and Top Novice in Impromptu Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – Top Novice in Individual Sweepstakes
- Emery McEvoy (2nd-Year) – Semifinalist in Impromptu Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Ashton Mullen (3rd-Year) – 5th Place in Informative Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Annie Nguyen (1st-year) – Top Novice in Persuasive Speaking
- Cooper Spacil (2nd-Year) – 7th Place (NFA Qualification)
- Team Sweepstakes – 2nd Place (Tied with Louisiana State University, Illinois State was 4th, UT-Austin was 5th)
University of Central Missouri “Swing” Tournament (2 Parts)
Missouri Mule – Individual Events
- Willow Adamson (1st-year) – 1st in Poetry Interpretation (NFA Qualification)
- Willow Adamson (1st-year) – 4th in After Dinner Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) – 3rd in Rhetorical Criticism (NFA Qualification)
- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) – 5th in Prose Interpretation (NFA Qualification)
- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) and Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 1st in Duo Interpretation (AFA Qualification)
- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) and Jessie Philips (4th-year) – 2nd in Duo Interpretation (NFA Qualification)
- Annie Nguyen (1st-year) – 2nd in Informative Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Annie Nguyen (1st-year) – 2nd in Persuasive Speaking (NFA Qualification)
Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 1st in Impromptu Speaking (NFA Qualification)- Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 3rd in After Dinner Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 3rd in Informative Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 5th in Dramatic Interpretation (NFA Qualification)
- Jessie Philips (4th-year) – 2nd in Prose Interpretation (NFA Qualification)
- Jack Schroeder (2nd-Year) – 5th in Extemporaneous Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Jack Schroeder (2nd-Year) – 6th in Informative Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Cooper Spacil (2nd-Year) – 2nd in After Dinner Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Cooper Spacil (2nd-Year) – 2nd in Broadcast Journalism
- Cooper Spacil (2nd-Year) – Semifinalist in Impromptu Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – 2nd in Extemporaneous Speaking
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – 3rd in Impromptu Speaking
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – 4th in Rhetorical Criticism
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – 5th in Extemporaneous Speaking
- Lauren Weiss (2nd-Year) – 5th in After Dinner Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Lauren Weiss (2nd-Year) – Semifinalist in Impromptu Speaking (NFA Qualification)
Missouri Mule – Debate
Varsity International Public Debate Association (IPDA) Division
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- Sawyer Partney (2nd-Year) – Octafinalist
Junior Varsity International Public Debate Association (IPDA) Division
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- Emmett Beeson (1st-year) – Octafinalist
- Eric Rotert (2nd-Year) – Quarterfinalist
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – Semifinalist, 1st Place Speaker
- Lauren Weiss (2nd-Year) – Quarterfinalist
Novice International Public Debate Association (IPDA) Division
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- Jack Schroeder (2nd-Year) – Octafinalist
Team International Public Debate (TIPDA) Division
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- Mikayla Hammer (2nd-Year) – 3rd Speaker
Varsity NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate (NFA-LD) Division
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- Aiden Bresawitz (4th-year) – 2nd Place Finalist (NFA Qualification)
- Payten Luaders (3rd-Year) – 4th Seed (NFA Qualification)
- Payten Luaders (3rd-Year) – 2nd Place Speaker
Junior Varsity NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate (NFA-LD) Division
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- Nevaeh Carter (1st-year), Tessa Kremer (1st-year), and Ammi McHugh (1st-year) (NFA Qualification) – Co-Champions
- Nevaeh Carter (1st-year) – 1st Speaker
- Tessa Kremer (1st-year) – 2nd Speaker
- Ammi McHugh (1st-year) – 5th Speaker
- Sawyer Partney (2nd-Year) – 6th Speaker
Missouri Mule – Team Awards
Pentathlon
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- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) – 3rd Place
- Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 2nd Place
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – 5th Place
“The Jack Award” (for top performers who do both speech and debate)
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- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – 2nd Place
Team Sweepstakes
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- Debate – 1st Place
- Individual Events – 2nd Place
- Overall – 1st Place
- Top Pi Kappa Delta Member University
University of Central Missouri – Dale Carnegie Tournament Individual Events Division
- Willow Adamson (1st-year) – 5th in After Dinner Speaking
- Willow Adamson (1st-year) – 4th in Poetry Interpretation (AFA Qualification)
- Alyssa Frisbee (3rd-Year) – 3rd in Dramatic Interpretation (NFA Qualification)
- Alyssa Frisbee (3rd-Year) – 7th in Program Oral Interpretation
- Mikayla Hammer (2nd-Year) – 2nd in Extemporaneous Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Mikayla Hammer (2nd-Year) – 3rd in Persuasion (NFA Qualification)
- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) and Jessie Philips (4th-year) – 1st in Duo Interpretation (AFA Qualification)
- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) – 2nd in After Dinner Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) and Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 3rd in Duo Interpretation
- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) – 4th in Prose Interpretation (NFA Qualification)
- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) – 5th in Rhetorical Criticism
- Emery McEvoy (2nd-year) – 1st in Impromptu Speaking
- Emery McEvoy (2nd-year) – 1st in Rhetorical Criticism
- Emery McEvoy (2nd-year) – 5th in Informative Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Ashton Mullen (3rd-Year) – 3rd in Informative Speaking
- Annie Nguyen (1st-year) – 1st in Informative Speaking (AFA Qualification)
- Annie Nguyen (1st-year) – 2nd in Persuasion (AFA Qualification)
- Sawyer Partney (2nd-Year) – 6th in Informative Speaking (NFA Qualification)
- Sawyer Partney (2nd-Year) – Semifinalist in Impromptu Speaking
- Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 4th in After Dinner Speaking
- Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 4th in Informative Speaking
- Cooper Spacil (2nd-Year) – 1st in After Dinner Speaking (AFA Qualification)
- Cooper Spacil (2nd-Year) – 5th in Extemporaneous Speaking
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – 3rd in Rhetorical Criticism (NFA Qualification)
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – 5th in Interviewing
- Jack Unsell (1st-year) – 6th in Prose Interpretation (NFA Qualification)
- Lauren Weiss (2nd-Year) – 3rd in After Dinner Speaking
- Lauren Weiss (2nd-Year) – Semifinalist in Impromptu Speaking
University of Central Missouri – Dale Carnegie Tournament Debate Division
Varsity NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate (NFA-LD) Division
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- Payten Luaders (3rd-Year) – 4th Speaker
Junior NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate (NFA-LD) Division
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- Emmett Beeson (1st-year) – Semifinalist
- Emmett Beeson (1st-year) – 3rd Speaker
- Nevaeh Carter (1st-year) – Quarterfinalist
- Nevaeh Cater (1st-year) – 5th Speaker
- Tessa Kremer (1st-year) – Semifinalist
- Tessa Kremer (1st-year) – 2nd Speaker
- Ammi McHugh (1st-year) – Quarterfinalist
- Ammi McHugh (1st-year) – 6th Speaker
University of Central Missouri – Dale Carnegie Tournament Team Awards
Pentathlon
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- Briggs Maynor (4th-year) – 2nd Place
- Emery McEvoy (2nd-Year) – 3rd Place
- Alex Peterson (4th-year) – 4th Place
Team Sweepstakes
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- Debate – 1st Place
- Individual Events – 1st Place
- Overall – 1st Place
- Combined Swing Sweepstakes – 1st Place