OCTC Speech & Debate Team concludes 2021-2022 season with triumphs at Spring Climb the Mountain Online Tournament and Florida Atlantic Owl Online Speech Invitational

by Katie Powers

Owensboro, KY (04/26/2022) — Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) speech and debate team, the Tammy M. Rice Debate Society, competed in their final tournaments of the 2021-2022 season at the Climb the Mountain online debate tournament hosted by Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and at the Florida Atlantic Owl Online Speech Invitational out of Boca Raton, Florida.

David Daniel compiled a 3-0 win-loss record in preliminaries at the Climb the Mountain tournament. He was the top seed advancing to the semi-finals of the Junior Varsity Division in the IPDA Debate. Daniel was recognized as the Top Speaker in the division. He earned the Championship award.

At the Florida Atlantic tournament, Kayla Mohon earned third place honors in Persuasive Speaking and fourth place in Impromptu Speaking. OCTC students Laura Flahardy and Josephine Gesser tied for fourth place in Persuasion.

During the 2021-2022 season, OCTC speakers earned over 50 individual awards and several Team Sweepstakes Awards, including the Kentucky Forensics Association State Championship in Debate and IEs (2-year division). The team was led by Caleb Rush, David Daniel, Heaven Taylor, and Kayla Mohon.

Coach Bob Glenn said, "Despite dealing with covid for the last two years, our students have overcome and competed at an extremely high level online. I am very proud of their hard work, commitment, and accomplishments this year. They have been a joy to work with; they have represented our college superbly this season."

Membership in the Rice Debate Society is open to any OCTC student. For more information, contact Coach Bob Glenn at 270-929-7471 or 270-686-4553.

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.

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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