OCTC Speech & Debate Team Results

by Bernie Hale

Owensboro, KY (10/17/2019) — The Owensboro Community & Technical College Speech and Debate team traveled to Cookeville, Tennessee and competed in a tournament hosted by Tennessee Tech University on September 27-28, 2019.

The team earned first place in the Debate Sweepstakes in the community college division and also earned first place in the Individual Events Sweepstakes in the community college division. The team amassed a total of 23 IPDA sweepstakes points in the Lincoln-Douglas division and 3 points in Team IPDA. Students competing for OCTC included: Jon Bozarth, Prem Patel, Kariss Thomson, Krishna Patel, and Caleb Rush.

Dr. Bob Glenn, faculty advisor for the team added "This is really a rookie team as four of the five students have not competed in speech and debate before, we are very excited to have done so well. It really speaks to the talent and hard work of our students."

Jon Bozarth, Sophomore-Owensboro, KY, second place in Novice IPDA Debate; and second place in elimination rounds division.

In Team IPDA Jon Bozarth and Karris Thomson compiled a 3-1 win loss record to place tenth in the open division.

Krishna Patel and Prem Patel debated in the TIPDA division.

In individual events Caleb Rush was a finalist in Extemporaneous Speaking, and also competed in Radio, Impromptu, and Editorial Impromptu.

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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