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2007 - 2008 Results
 
2008 MacAward "Best Club of the Year" Nominee!!! 
 
Friday-Sunday, March 14-16, 2008
26th Novice National Championship: Pensacola, Florida (Photos available here)
 
5th Place, Division III Sweepstakes
2008 Novice National Quality Award Winner!!!
 
Robert Bruton
  • Octafinalist, Parliamentary Debate (with Alan Gray)
  • Competed in Impromptu Speaking
Alan Gray
  • Octafinalist, Parliamentary Debate (with Robert Bruton)
  • National Champion Speaker, Parliamentary Debate
  • Semifinalist, Impromptu Speaking
  • National Runner-Up, Dramatic Interpretation

Ashley Irizarry

  • Competed in Parliamentary Debate (with Megan Warren, Sul Ross)

Wally Manning

  • Competed in Informative Speaking
 
Friday-Saturday, March 7-8, 2008
DSR-TKA National Championship: Gainesville, Florida (Read all about it!)
 
Alan Gray
  • 2nd Place, Parliamentary Debate (with Alexia Ash, University of Florida)
  • 2nd Place Speaker, Parliamentary Debate
  • Speaker of the House and "Excellent Speaker," Student Congress
  • Competed in Impromptu Speaking
  • Competed in Dramatic Interpretation
 
Friday-Sunday, February 8-10, 2008
Florida Intercollegiate Forensics Association State Championship: Tallahassee, Florida (Photos available here)
 

3rd Place, Debate Sweepstakes
2008 Division I State Champion!!!
5th Place, Overall Sweepstakes
 
Robert Bruton
  • Competed in Parliamentary Debate with Alan Gray (3-1)
  • Competed in Lincoln-Douglas Debate
  • 4th Place Speaker, Lincoln-Douglas Debate
  • Competed in Oral Interpretation of Poetry
  • Competed in Impromptu Speaking

Alan Gray

  • Competed in Parliamentary Debate with Robert Bruton (3-1)
  • 2nd Place Speaker, Parliamentary Debate
  • Top Non-Advancing Novice, Rhetorical Criticism
  • Top Non-Advancing Novice, Impromptu Speaking
  • 3rd Place, Dramatic Interpretation

Ashley Irizarry (not pictured)

  • Competed in Parliamentary Debate with Wesley Matheiu

Wesley Mathieu (not pictured)

  • Competed in Parliamentary Debate with Ashley Irizarry
  
Friday, January 25, 2008
Inter-Squad Parliamentary Debate Scrimmage: Jupiter, Florida
 

Robert Bruton

  • Second Place, Parliamentary Debate with Greg Post
  • Third Place, Parliamentary Debate Seaker

Ashley Irizarry

  • First Place, Parliamentary Debate with Wesley Mathieu (3-0)
  • Second Place, Parliamentary Debate Speaker

Wesley Mathieu

  • First Place, Parliamentary Debate with Ashley Irizarry (3-0)
  • First Place, Parliamentary Debate Speaker

Gregory Post

  • Second Place, Parliamentary Debate with Robert Bruton
  • Fourth Place, Parliamentary Debate Speaker
 
Thursday-Saturday, November 8-10, 2007
9th Annual Star Invitational: Florida Community College, Jacksonville, Florida (Photos available here) (Read all about it!)
 
Top Non-Advancing Small School
 
Jill Bevins
  • Competed in Parliamentary Debate with Alan Gray

Robert Bruton

  • Competed in Parliamentary Debate with Walter Manning
  • 6th Place, Lincoln-Douglas Debate
  • 5th Place Speaker, Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Alan Gray
  • Competed in Parliamentary Debate with Jill Bevins
  • 2nd Place Speaker, Parliamentary Debate
  • Competed in Oral Interpretation of Prose
  • Best Non-Advancing Novice, Oral Interpretation of Poetry
  • Semifinalist and Best Non-Advancing Novice, Impromptu Speaking
  • Competed in Dramatic Interpretation

Walter Manning

  • Competed in Parliamentary Debate with Robert Bruton

 

Friday-Saturday, October 5-6, 2007
The Child of the Sun Invitational: Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida
 
Alan Gray
  • 6th Place, Oral Interpretation of Poetry
  • 6th Place, Impromtu Speaking
  • Competed in Oral Interpretation of Prose