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Forensic Falcons Champion Events at Pioneer Trails

Clubs & Competitive Teams//Forensic Falcons//Honors and Awards
February 13, 2023
Forensic Falcons Champion Events at Pioneer Trails
Forensic Falcons earned many awards while co-hosting an online tournament last weekend. Picture (front row, l-r) are Trey Murphy, Neva Wasson, Bailey Warner, and Layton Glover. Back row (l-r) are Jenkin Naas, Ethan Bordoy, Collin Garnett, and Connor Fauset.

The Southeastern Illinois College Forensic Falcons co-hosted the 41st Annual Pioneer Trails Open Tournament with Casper College of Wyoming this last weekend on Feb. 11.  The event is one of the few virtual tournaments SIC competes in and featured competitors from colleges and universities from Illinois, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Virginia, Alabama, and California. Since hosting, SIC was unable to receive a team award, but that didn’t stop SIC’s team from taking top honors in several individual events. Additionally, two of SIC’s competitive actors, Bailey Warner (Marion) and Collin Garnett (Marion), participated in Dramatic Interpretation at the competition.

First-year competitor Neva Wasson earned two individual championships after advancing all four of her events to final rounds, and was the top speaker at the tournament. Sophomore Trey Murphy was the 4th overall speaker, and was named champion in Informative Speaking.

“I think the tournament went incredibly well!” said Murphy. “The tournament ran smoothly and our peers did an excellent job!”

Coach Rachel Parish agrees. She explains, “This weekend was definitely a team effort, and has me very excited to see them building their events even further this spring towards nationals.”

Each competition builds to the 2023 Phi Rho Pi National Tournament in Bethesda, Maryland.  The team is coached by Jenny Billman, Paul Cummins, and Rachel Parish.

Individual results from the tournament are as follows.

Neva Wasson (Harrisburg): tournament champion in Dramatic Interpretation, tournament champion in Poetry, 2nd place in Duo Interpretation (with partner Connor Fauset), 2nd place in Speech to Entertain.

Layton Glover (Equality): 4th place in Informative Speaking.

Trey Murphy (Benton): tournament champion in Informative Speaking, 3rd place in Prose Interpretation, 3rd place in Program Oral Interpretation, 5th Place in Poetry.

Connor Fauset (Benton): 2nd place in Duo Interpretation (with Wasson), 2nd place in Dramatic Interpretation, 2nd place in Prose Interpretation, 6th place in Poetry.

Ethan Bordoy (Harrisburg): 5th place in Informative Speaking.

Jenkin Naas (Harrisburg): 5th place in Communication Analysis.

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