Speech and debate team starts off season strong

The Columbia Falls Wildcat Speech and Debate team kicked off their season with 29 competitors attending a AA tournament at Sentinel High School in Missoula over the weekend.

With only 10 competitors returning to last year’s events, for most of the team it was their first time competiting in their events.  

“Tournaments are an exercise of stamina and presence and I was proud of all of our team as they navigated the rounds, “ coach Dawn Wheller said. “We are a young team and our kids did a great job staying poised throughout the day.  We ended the day taking second with 45.5 sweeps points to Hamilton’s first with 47.5 points.  Whitefish took third with 40 points.  It was a great weekend and we look forward to competing next week at Hamilton.”

The following placed in their events:

Kory Moran, 2nd in Program Oral Interp

Kory Moran, 3rd in Humorous Interp

Josie Ekholt, 4th in Memorized Public Address

Megan Day and Lily Aveson, 5th in Policy Debate

Heather Barthel, Calder Smith, 5th in Novice Policy Debate

Abby Lawhead, 5th in Impromptu

Josie Ekhold, 8th in Impromptu

Emma Wilcox, 7th in Informative

Allycyn Palmer & Emma Wilcox, 8th in Duo Interp