OCTC's Rice Speech & Debate Society Wins State
Owensboro, KY (02/18/2021) — Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Tammy M. Rice Speech & Debate Society won the Community Colllege State Championship in NPDA Debate, IPDA Debate, and individual events at the 2021 Kentucky Forensics Association (KFA) state tournament hosted virtually by Western Kentucky University (WKU) on February 12-13, 2021. OCTC also earned a second place overall honor, behind WKU, the top ranked program in the country.
Caleb Rush earned the Harlan Hamm Award as one of the top four outstanding forensics students in the Commonwealth. Rush also earned an eighth place Speaker award in IPDA debate.
Rush and David Daniel, a firstime competitor, collected other awards including tying for second place in Quadrathon, for students competing in 4 or more events. Daniel is also a freshman at Owensboro High School, and his father was on OCTC's team 15 years ago.
Coaches Dr. Bob Glenn and Brad Phelps assisted were excited by the results, Glenn added, "We are so pleased to be able to compete, it brings a sense of normalcy back to the semester. We are very proud of our contingent and the way they represented OCTC on-line this weekend at KFA."
The OCTC team will be hosting a digital speech and debate tournament on March 5 - 6, 2021. Anyone interested in judging during this online event should contact bobj.glenn@kctcs.edu for more information.
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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