Forensics Earns Top Honors at Recent Tournament

Students from Truman’s Forensics Union competed at the Gateway Swing IE tournament at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Dec. 4-5.

Team members excelled in their respective events leading to a team victory on both days of the swing tournament, which led to an overall swing team victory. At this tournament, students who entered into at least four speech categories across all three speech genres were entered into a special quadrathon sweepstakes.

Placements on day one of the swing were as follows:

• Freshman Hannah Spainhour received top novice in prose interpretation
• Sophomores Jillian Humke and Larissa Wratney earned first place in duo interpretation
• Wratney also earned second place in dramatic interpretation
• Sophomore Ella Schnake placed third in dramatic interpretation, second in impromptu speaking and first in prose
• Sophomore Megan Ford placed sixth in prose, fourth in informative speaking and third in persuasion
• Junior Maya Krump earned third place in informative speaking, second place in persuasion and third place in quadrathon sweepstakes
• Senior Kayla Gerlt earned fourth in extemporaneous speaking and dramatic interpretation, third in after dinner speaking and prose, second in informative speaking and was tournament champion in quadrathon sweepstakes
• The team also received first place overall