Speech, debate team wins home tournament

Columbia Falls won its home speech and debate tournament Saturday amongst Class A schools, downing Whitefish and Frenchtown, who took second and third respectively.

Coach Dawn Roe thanked the community for its support, as the high school wasn’t completely available due to renovations.

“The school community graciously allowed us to change the location of our tournament so that we could move forward with the tournament as planned.  Thank you to the Wildcat community for the use of your buildings and classrooms.  Thank you to the Columbia Falls community for the clothing donations to replace our giving closet, and for the donation of your time to judge,” Roe said.

The following are Columbia Falls results:

1st place finishers:

Carson Settles & Reed Wollenzien, Duo Interp

Kory Moran, Dramatic Interp

Kira Shanks, Memorized Public Address

Kaya Carlburg & Quinn Caudle, Public Forum Debate

Boone Shanks & Lauren Rogers, Policy Debate

Eleanor Smiley, Impromptu

2nd place finishers:

Selah Heinzen, Extemporaneous

Merell Cooley, Memorized Public Address

Brandon Widhalm & Kory Moran, Duo Interp

Carson Settles, Program Oral Interp

3rd place finishers

Eleanor Smiley, Memorized Public Address

4th place finishers

Tia Marie Poor, Humorous Interp

Allycyn Palmer, Merrick Fairchild, Duo Interp

5th place finishers

Makinzie Taylor, Memorized Public Address

6th place finishers

Melody McNally, Lincoln Douglas Debate

Alton Olson & Stimson Dolesh, Novice Public Forum Debate

7th place finishers

Kira Shanks, Program Oral Interp

Abby Lawhead, Original Oratory

Josie Ekholt, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate

Jay Carlin & Chloe Kinsella, Novice Public Forum Debate

8th place finishers

Greyson Pfeifle, Informative

Von Blanchard, Dramatic Interp

Sage Petioni, Extemporaneous