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Forensics Team
TJC Students are encouraged to participate in both Theatre and Forensics! TJC Forensic Team members may choose from all eleven of the national individual speech events, Parliamentary debate, plus Lincoln-Douglas debate, Cross-Examination debate, and Interpreter's Theatre. Most students end each year competing in four to six events, receiving excellent training in diverse areas from interpretation to debate. TJC travels to highly competitive tournaments, competing against Universities as well as Community Colleges. Tyler Junior College has won more Sweepstakes Trophies than any other community college in Texas at the Phi Rho Pi National Tournament! TJC offers smaller classes with more personal attention by instructors, greater opportunity to perform and more! The head coache has over 30 years experience. M'Liss Hindman has been recognized with state and national awards as an outstanding educator! Tyler Junior College forensic students may also be actively involved in our top quality theatre productions. Our students are actively recruited by four-year schools for scholarship programs in both speech and theatre!
2010 Forensics 2009 FALL 2009 1st Top Novice Awards: 2nd Top Novice Award 3rd Top Novice Award 6th Place in Duo Interpretation Semi-Finalists in Extemporaneous Speaking Semi-Finalist in Prose Interpretation Semi-Finalists in Impromptu Speaking TIFA State Championship Report: Five members of the TJC forensic team travelled to Pasadena, Texas this past weekend to attend the Fall Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association's state championship tournament hosted by San Jacinto College North Oct. 30-Nov. 1st. There were 16 schools in attendance and three events were large enough to go to Semis.
FALL 2009 Parliamentary Debate Impromptu Speaking Dramatic Interpretation Extemporaneous Speaking Program Oral Interpretation After Dinner Speaking Informative Speaking Bayou Bucket Part 2 hosted by North Harris College Impromptu Speaking Extemporaneous Speaking After Dinner Speaking Program Oral Interpretation Informative Speaking Note: Jawoine Hawkins did not compete the second day due to illness and the fact that he has two of his events qualified for national competition already. All of the rest of the participating team members have at least 2/3 of their qualification accomplished for at least one event as well. This is very early in the season for this and the coach is very proud of the team's hard work and determination!
FALL 2009
September 25-27 Forum in the Forest Swing The Tyler Junior College Forensics team traveled to the Forum in the Forest tournaments this past weekend. We returned victoriously winning Third place Overall Sweepstakes in the first tournament and Second place Overall Sweepstakes in the second tournament. We were only beat by the University of Texas at Austin and McNeese University in the first and only by UT Austin in the second. We beat other universities such as Rice University and Texas A & M University and all of the community colleges in attendance. (Special Note: The UT speech team had 25 students in competition, we had 6!!!) Our percentage of 'breaking' students to finals was over 50%, which is a very high percentage in forensic tournaments. Here are the individual winners from this weekend: Forum in the Forest, Part I hosted by Rice University (on Friday and Saturday) Parliamentary Debate: Impromptu Speaking: Prose Interpretation: Dramatic Interpretation: Extemporaneous Speaking: Program Oral Interpretation: Poetry Interpretation: Forum in the Forest, Part II hosted by Kingwood College (on Sunday) Informative Speaking: Impromptu Speaking: Extemporaneous Speaking: Program Oral Interpretation: Poetry Interpretation:
FALL 2009 The TJC Forensics team has just returned from their first tournament of the year. They attended the prestigious Hill Country Swing, two tournaments hosted back to back at Texas State University in San Marcos and the University of Texas at Austin, September 18-20th. Six students attended from TJC and all did very well in competing against predominately university students. Our freshman from Grand Prairie did exceptionally well: Texas State University Tournament University of Texas at Austin Tournament This impressive performance by Jawoine means that he already has two events 2/3 qualified for national competition (very difficult to do in two tournaments, especially in your first college tournaments!) Some of the universities competing in the tournaments, besides the host schools, included Kansas State University, Oklahoma University, West Texas A & M, McNeese University and the University of Texas at El Paso.
SPRING 2009 GOLD: SILVER: BRONZE:
March 19-21 Winning Excellent Awards:
SPRING 2009 TJC won 1st Place in Debate Sweepstakes, 2nd Place in Individual Events Sweepstakes and 1st Place Overall Sweepstakes. The individual winners included: Parliamentary Debate: Parliamentary Top Speakers: Dramatic Interpretation: Speech to Entertain: Duo Interpretation: Program Oral Interpretation: Impromptu Speaking: Extemporaneous Speaking: Prose Interpretation: Persuasive Speaking: All preliminary tournaments are over now. TJC has qualified for four different national tournaments. Alex Warren and Travis Smith will be traveling to Berkley to compete with the top 64 debate teams in the country this weekend. The rest of the team will travel to Shreveport to compete in the Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament. Wish us luck!!
SPRING 2009 TJC won 1st Place in Debate Sweepstakes, 2nd Place in Individual Events Sweepstakes and 1st Place Overall Sweepstakes. The individual winners included: Parliamentary Debate: Parliamentary Top Speakers: Dramatic Interpretation: Speech to Entertain: Duo Interpretation: Program Oral Interpretation: Impromptu Speaking: Extemporaneous Speaking: Prose Interpretation: Persuasive Speaking: All preliminary tournaments are over now. TJC has qualified for four different national tournaments. Alex Warren and Travis Smith will be traveling to Berkley to compete with the top 64 debate teams in the country this weekend. The rest of the team will travel to Shreveport to compete in the Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament.
SPRING 2009 Tyler Junior College forensics team attended the Sweetheart Swing tournaments hosted on the campus of the University of Oklahoma, Feb. 13-15th. Sixteen schools from five different states were there including such notable ones as University of Texas, Kansas State university, Texas Tech, and Cameron University. TJC did well with half of their team in attendance: Sweetheart, Part 1: Sweetheart, Part 2: Then Tyler Junior College finished 3rd in Overall Sweepstakes for the two tournaments together. Pretty impressive for four students competing against mostly universities! Encourage these students in your classes.
SPRING 2009 The TJC Forensic team traveled to the Texas Community College Speech and Theatre Association's State Championship tournament this past weekend, hosted by Tarrant County NE in Ft. Worth. TJC was 1st place Sweepstakes in Debate This makes a grand sweep for our school! The individual winners are: Parliamentary Debate Persuasive Speaking: Impromptu Speaking: Program Oral Interpretation Extemporaneous Speaking Prose Interpretation Speech to Entertain Duo Interpretation Dramatic Interpretation Top Speakers in Debate Top Performers in Individual Events This was a very successful win for our team!
SPRING 2009 The Tyler Junior College Forensic team recently returned from the Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association's State Championship, hosted by Texas State University in San Marcos. There were fifteen universities and colleges represented at the tournament. Here are our placement: Jeremias Garcia and Kinsey Martin - Quarter-Finalists in Parliamentary Debate & Top Novices 3rd Place Debate Sweepstakes - Tyler Junior College Then we attended the Texas State Univ. tournament and brought back the following awards: Alex Warren - 1st in Extemporaneous Speaking TJC was 3rd in Individual Events Sweepstakes TJC was 5th Overall Sweepstakes for the two tournaments combined! Forensics 2008 FALL 2008 Sept. 26-28 Forum in the Forest Tournament Swing, Kingwood College FALL The TJC Forensics Team returned from the Coyote Thunder Forensic Tournament with a 3rd Place Sweepstakes trophy. TJC competed with over ten universities including Sterling University (1st Place Sweepstakes) and Kansas Weselyn (2nd Place Sweepstakes), University of Oklahoma, West Texas A & M and others. Individual winners included: 1st Place: Austin Witherspoon in Speech to Entertain 2nd Place: Jessica Peters in Persuasive Speaking 4th Place: Jeremiah Garcia in Extemporaneous Speaking, Alina Dolzhenko in Persuasive Speaking 5th Place: Jeremiah Garcia in Impromptu Speaking Quarter Finalists in Parliamentary Debate: Travis Smith and Jessica Peters, Kinsey Martin and Jeremiah Garcia Other students attending and doing well in their preliminary rounds: Justin Charles, Jonathon Clifton, Erin Durham, Alex Warren, and Skye Graham.
October 17-19 Travis Smith and Alex Warren attended the Parli Marathon Tournament, hosted in Houston weekend before last. At the first tournament they advanced to Quarter-finals and won. Then they lost in Semi-Finals. This weekend, we took five students (Alex Warren, Travis Smith, Austin Witherspoon, Skye Graham, and Erin Durham) to the Bayou Bucket Swing Tournaments. Alex Warren and Travis Smith once again broke to Quarter-finals. Travis Smith also won second in Impromptu Speaking This tournament had fifteen schools attend, including the University of Texas, University of Houston, Texas State University, McNeese University, Howard Payne, and many other community colleges.
September 26-28, 2008 The Tyler Junior College Forensics Team (speech, interpretation and debate events) attended their first tournament last weekend. They went to the Forum in the Forest Tournament hosted by Rice University and Kingwood College. Eleven different colleges and universities attended including Rice, University of Texas, Oklahoma University and Texas State University. The TJC team took seven students this past weekend and entered Prose Interpretation, Extemporaneous Speaking, Impromptu Speaking and Parliamentary debate. Travis Smith and Alex Warren broke to Semi-Finals in Impromptu Speaking.
SPRING The Tyler Junior College Forensics team travelled to the prestigious Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association Spring Champtionship this past weekend. It was hosted by San Antonio College with the following results: Jordan Innerarity and J. P. Fugler - Quarter Finalists in Parlimentary Debate AND... Jordan Innerarity was announced as one of the very prestigious All Star Texas Forensics Squad. This honor was bestowed on him not only for his excellent record of debate wins and finalists placings in individual events, but also for his leadership skills and academic record.
January 28, 2008 The TJC Forensic Team competed in the Webster University Gorlak Gala in St. Louis, MO over the weekend. There were 31 schools in attendance from 15 states with the following results: Jordan Innerarity and J. P. Fugler - 2nd place Parliamentary Debate (Special note our team beat Norte Dame and many other universities to achieve this!) Christina Ivey - 5th place in Penthalon - that means she was the 5th Top Performer at the Tournament competing in all types of competition (interpretation, limited prep speaking, and prepared speaking.) TJC was the 6th place Overall Sweepstakes school! Forensics 2007 November 10, 2007 Forensics is an academic competition that you can take pride in our students. This weekened, they competed once again successfully against universities. I was approached by three universities wanting to recruit our students! We have had a very exciting fall and look forward to new challenges for the Spring semester. The TJC Forensic Team attended their final swing tournament for the Fall semester and returned again victoriously. These were the largest tournaments that we attended all semester with a total of 29 schools - only four of them were community colleges. The schools came from seven different states including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kansas, Alabama, and Georgia. TJC came in 4th Place Overall for the two tournaments combined!!!! This was a great accomplishment! Below you will find our students’ individual results and our other school sweepstakes awards: Red River Swing - University of Louisiana at Monroe half: Red River Swing - University of Southern Louisiana at Shreveport half:
November 2-4, 2007 The Tyler Junior College Forensic Team attended the Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association's Fall championship tournament and the Texas Tech Invitational Tournament held in Lubbock November 2-4, 2007. We took seven students and they all brought home at least one award. These were the largest and most difficult tournaments that we have attended so far this year. There were sixteen schools in attendance, most of them universities. Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Association Fall Championship: Texas Tech University Invitational Tournament:
October 20, 2007 The Tyler Junior College Forensic Team (competitive speech and debate events) travelled to two major tournaments in Houston - October 20, 2007. There were fourteen schools and universities represented at the tournaments. TJC won First Place in Debate Sweepstakes and 2nd Place Overall Sweepstakes for the two tournaments (placing behind the University of Texas at Austin.) Individual Winners were: Bayou Classic hosted by North Harris College: Bayous Classic Part II hosted by Cy-Fair College:
September 29, 2007 The TJC Forensic Team has returned victoriously in the Newbie Novice Tournament hosted by Tarrant County Community College Northeast the last on September 29, 2007. (All contestants had to be in their first two semesters of college competition in order to compete.) Seven colleges attended. Here are the results:
Top Speakers in Parliamentary Debate: Impromptu Speaking: Extemporaneous Speaking: Communication Analysis: Speech to Entertain: Poetry Interpretation: Prose Interpreation: Program Oral Interpretation: Persuasive Speaking: Top Individual Speaker: Top Overall Speaker of the Tournament: Individual Events Sweepstakes: Debate Sweepstakes: Overall Sweepstakes:
April 9-14, 2007 TJC Forensics Team National Champions - 2 Golds & a Bronze!
Students that qualified for national competition were: Adam Rios, Christina Ivey, Jacob Hopson, Jordan Innerarity Individual winners were:
The competition was held in Houston April 9-14, 2007. Over 650 students competed representing 76 colleges from across the nation. TJC should be very proud of these students and their accomplishments this semester. They worked very hard to qualify and represented us extemely well!
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