At the Eastern Michigan University tournament, the team finished second place out of eleven schools. Berry speakers won a total of fourteen awards! The results are as follows:
1st Place Rhetorical Criticism | Lynsey Morris |
2nd Place Dramatic Duo | Eric Christensen & Carrie Schuchts |
2nd Place Informative | Whitney Posey |
3rd Place Rhetorical Criticism | Amber Still |
4th Place Impromptu | Lynsey Morris |
4th Place Extemporaneous Speaking | Lynsey Morris |
5th Place After Dinner Speaking | Amy Birath |
5th Place Prose | Carrie Schuchts |
5th Place Dramatic Duo | David Mast & Jim Moore |
5th Place Novice Prose | David Mast |
6th Place Prose | Eric Christensen |
At the first half of the Berry Swing, the Autumn in the Mountains tournament hosted by Berry College our novices won a total of eleven awards! The results are as follows:
1st Place Novice Informative | Whitney Posey |
1st Place After Dinner Speaking | Jim Moore |
3rd Place Dramatic Duo | David Mast & Courtney Urquhart |
3rd Place Novice Prose | David Mast |
4th Place Extemporaneous Speaking | Dan Alban |
6th Place Persuasion | Dan Alban |
Top Novice Extemporaneous Speaking | Dan Alban |
Top Novice After Dinner Speaking | Jim Moore |
Top Novice Dramatic Duo | David Mast & Courtney Urquhart |
At the second half of the Berry Swing, the Mountain Magic tournament hosted by Young Harris College, the team finished third out of twenty-two chools. Berry speakers won a total of twenty awards! The results are as follows:
1st Place Poetry | Marcie Millard |
1st Place Novice Informative | Whitney Posey |
2nd Place Rhetorical Criticism | Lynsey Morris |
2nd Place Prose | Carrie Schuchts |
2nd Place Novice Impromptu | Whitney Posey |
3rd Place Dramatic Duo | Marcie Millard & JAS Sustrich |
3rd Place After Dinner Speaking | Carrie Schuchts |
4th Place After Dinner Speaking | Amy Birath |
4th Place Rhetorical Criticism | Kim Bryant |
4th Place Extemporaneous Speaking | Lynsey Morris |
4th Place Novice Impromptu | Dan Alban |
5th Place Dramatic Duo | Amy Birath & Carrie Schuchts |
6th Place Dramatic Duo | Dan Alban & Lindsey Wolfgang |
7th Place After Dinner Speaking | Jim Moore |
7th Place Poetry | Eric Christensen |
Top Novice Extemporaneous Speaking | Dan Alban |
At the first half of the Five Rivers Swing, held at Carson-Newman College, the team finished third out of thirteen schools. Berry speakers won a total of fifteen awards! The results are as follows:
1st Place Dramatic Duo | Marcie Milliard & JAS Sustrich |
2nd Place Dramatic Duo | Amy Birath & Carrie Schuchts |
2nd Place After-Dinner Speaking | Amy Birath |
3rd Place Poetry | Eric Christensen |
4th Place Prose | Eric Christensen |
4th Place Poetry | Amber Still |
5th Place Dramatic Duo | Eric Christensen & Marcie Milliard |
5th Place Extemporaneous Speaking | Lynsey Morris |
5th Place Prose | Carrie Schuchts |
5th Place After-Dinner Speaking | Jim Moore |
6th Place Persuasion | Dan Alban |
At the second half of the Five Rivers Swing, held at Walters State Community College, the team finished fourth out of thirteen schools. Berry speakers won a total of twelve awards! The results are as follows:
1st Place Poetry | Marcie Millard |
2nd Place Dramatic Duo | Amy Birath & Carrie Schuchts |
3rd Place After-Dinner Speaking | Amy Birath |
2nd Place Prose | Carrie Schuchts |
3rd Place Poetry | Eric Christensen |
4th Place Dramatic Duo | David Mast & Jim Moore |
5th Place Dramatic Duo | Eric Christensen & Carrie Schuchts |
6th Place Extemporaneous Speaking | Lindsey Wolfgang |
At the Holiday Frolic hosted by Ohio State University, the team finished fifth out of thirty schools. Berry speakers won a total of twelve awards! We also we crowned champions of the "Team Sing" for the third year in a row, bringing the "traveling fruitcake" once again in to the South! The results are as follows:
1st Place Varsity Prose | Marcie Millard |
1st Place Novice Impromptu | Dan Alban |
1st Place Novice Persuasion | Dan Alban |
2nd Place Dramatic Duo | Eric Christensen & Carrie Schuchts |
2nd Place Poetry | Carrie Schuchts |
3rd Place After-Dinner Speaking | Amy Birath |
3rd Place Dramatic Duo | Eric Christensen & Marcie Millard |
3rd Place Varsity Impromptu | Lynsey Morris |
At the Georgia Intercollegiate Forensics Association State Championship, Berry finished fourth and took home the State Championship for the fourth year in a row! Berry speakers won a total of forty-four awards! The results are as follows:
1st Place Parlaimentary Debate | Dan Alban, Lynsey Morris, Carrie Schuchts, & Lindsay Wolfgang |
1st Place Poetry | Carrie Schuchts |
1st Place Dramatic Duo | Eric Christensen & Carrie Schuchts |
1st Place Persuasion | Dan Alban |
1st Place Rhetorical Criticism | Lynsey Morris |
1st Place After Dinner Speaking | Amy Birath |
1st Place Informative | Whitney Posey |
1st Place Prose | JAS Sustrich |
2nd Place Programmed Oral Interpretation | Carrie Schuchts |
2nd Place Dramatic Duo | Amy Birath & Carrie Schuchts |
2nd Place Impromptu | Lynsey Morris |
2nd Place Persuasion | Lindsay Wolfgang |
2nd Place Extemporaneous Speaking | Dan Alban |
2nd Place Dramatic Interpretation | JAS Sustrich |
2nd Place Prose | David Mast |
2nd Place After Dinner Speaking | Jim Moore |
3rd Place Rhetorical Criticism | Amy Birath |
3rd Place Informative | Lindsay Wolfgang |
3rd Place Impromptu | Lindsay Wolfgang |
3rd Place Persuasion | Whitney Posey |
3rd Place Dramatic Duo | David Mast & Jim Moore |
3rd Place Poetry | David Mast |
4th Place Rhetorical Criticism | Lindsay Wolfgang |
4th Place Impromptu | Whitney Posey |
4th Place After Dinner Speaking | Eric Christensen |
4th Place Informative | Brooke Cooper |
5th Place Poetry | David Mast |
Top Novice After Dinner Speaking | Jim Moore |
Top Novice Dramatic Duo | David Mast & Jim Moore |
Top Novice Dramatic Interpretation | JAS Sustrich |
Top Novice Extemporaneous Speaking | Dan Alban |
Top Novice Impromptu | Whitney Posey |
Top Novice Informative | Whitney Posey |
Top Novice Persuasion | Dan Alban |
Top Novice Poetry | David Mast |
Top Novice Prose | JAS Sustrich |
At the Heart of the Carolinas tournament hosted by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the team finished first out of eleven schools. Berry speakers won a total of twenty-nine awards! The results are as follows:
1st Place Pentathlon | Carrie Schuchts |
1st Place Dramatic Duo | Amy Birath & Carrie Schuchts |
1st Place After Dinner Speaking | Jim Moore |
1st Place Persuasion | Dan Alban |
1st Place Extemporaneous Speaking | Dan Alban |
1st Place Informative | Lindsay Wolfgang |
2nd Place Dramatic Duo | Eric Christensen & Carrie Schuchts |
2nd Place Prose | Carrie Schuchts |
2nd Place After Dinner Speaking | Jim Moore |
2nd Place Persuasion | Lindsay Wolfgang |
3rd Place After-Dinner Speaking | Carrie Schuchts |
3rd Place Dramatic Duo | Amy Birath & Amber Still |
3rd Place Prose | Amber Still |
3rd Place Poetry | Amber Still |
3rd Place Informative | Amber Still |
4th Place Dramatic Duo | David Mast & Lindsay Wolfgang |
4th Place Prose | Eric Christensen |
4th Place After Dinner Speaking | Eric Christensen |
5th Place Dramatic Duo | David Mast & Jim Moore |
5th Place Prose | Jim Moore |
5th Place Extemporaneous Speaking | Abby Safford |
5th Place Programmed Oral Interpretation | Abby Safford |
6th Place After Dinner Speaking | Eric Christensen |
At the first half of the Florida Sunshine Swing, hosted by the in University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida, Berry finished sixth out of eighteen schools. Berry speakers won a total of five awards! The results are as follows:
4th Place Informative | Lindsay Wolfgang |
5th Place Dramatic Duo | Amy Birath & Carrie Schuchts |
6th Place After-Dinner Speaking | Amy Birath |
6th Place Rhetorical Criticism | Brooke Cooper |
At the second half of the Florida Sunshine Swing, hosted by the University of Florida in Pensacola, Florida, Berry speakers won four awards! The results are as follows:
5th Place Extemporaneous Speaking | Dan Alban |
5th Place Persuasion | Lindsay Wolfgang |
6th Place After Dinner Speaking | Amy Birath |
6th Place Prose | Carrie Schuchts |
At the National Forensic Association National Tournament, hosted by Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, Berry placed third in Division I and twelth place overall out of ninety-four. Berry speakers won seven awards! The results are as follows:
4th Place After Dinner Speaking | Jim Moore!!! |
Semi-Finalist in Poetry | Marcie Millard |
Quarter-Finalist in Prose | Marcie Millard |
Quarter-Finalists in Dramatic Duo | Amy Birath & Carrie Schuchts |
Quarter-Finalists in Dramatic Duo | Marcie Millard & JAS Sustrich |
At the Interstate Oratory Contest held in Springfield, Illinois, Berry was proud to represent the state of Georgia with the top two persuasive speakers in the state. Congratulations to Dan Alban and Lindsay Wolfgang for a job well done!
Amber L. Still / AStill@loki.berry.edu / revised 29 April 1998