The Columbia  Falls speech and debate team took first amongst Class A schools at the two-day meet in Corvallis last weekend.

“January is an important month for competition as we are quickly approaching divisionals and then the state tournament.  The team worked hard over the holiday break and we  saw the results of all that work this weekend,” coach Dawn Roe said,

AA squads like Flathead and Glacier also competed, with Glacier taking first and Flathead second. In class A, Whitefish took second. The Bulldogs have beaten the Wildcats earlier this season.

Here’s Columbia Falls results:

Lauren Rogers & Boone Shanks, 1st in Policy Debate

Tia Marie Poor, 2nd in Dramatic Interp

Quinn Caudle and Kaya Carlburg, 3rd in Public Forum Debate

Carson Settles & Reed Wollenzien 3rd in DUO Interp

Reed Wollenzien, 4th in Humorous Interp

Tia Marie Poor, 5th in Humorous Interp

Celestine Young, 5th in Lincoln Douglas Debate

Eleanor Smiley, 5th in Impromptu

Kira Shanks, 6th in Memorized Public Address

Merell Cooley, 7th in Memorized Public Address

Carson Settles, 7th in Program Oral Interp

Greyson Pfeifle, 8th in Informative

Eleanor Smiley, 8th in Memorized Public Address