Over winter break, Fullerton College sent five competitors to participate in two separate speech and debate tournaments: The Great Salt Lake Invitational at the University of Utah and The Hannie Schaft Invitational at Southwestern College. Britton Lee showed how smart and hardworking Hornets can be by finishing third place in persuasive speaking and fourth place in informative speaking, besting a field… Read more »
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Speech and Debate Team Earns Multiple Awards at PSCFA Fall Championships
[tabs slidertype=”simple”][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][/tabs] Fullerton College sent nine competitors to participate in the Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensics Association (PSCFA) Fall Championships on December 2 and December 3. In individual events, Britton Lee finished second place in persuasive speaking besting a field of 14 colleges and universities. Hornet teammate Akayla Cadena finished second place in program of oral… Read more »
Speech and Debate Competes at CSUN Robert Barbara Invitational
[tabs slidertype=”simple”][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][/tabs] Fullerton College sent 15 competitors to participate in the CSU, Northridge Robert Barbara Invitational on Friday, Nov. 10 to Sunday, Nov. 12. Students spoke on a wide range of contemporary issues from clean water filtration to humanitarian aid to South Sudan over three days of intense competition. Students from 24 colleges and universities participated in the three… Read more »
Fullerton College Competitors Take Top Awards at CSUF Blumer Tournament
[tabs slidertype=”simple”][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][/tabs] Fullerton College competitors took top awards at the 25th Cal State Fullerton Blumer Speech and Debate Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 4. In the novice debate division Fullerton College’s Loaloa Elnaeb and James Redgrave took first place with a 4-0 record. Gev Artsrounian and Will Hernandez took second place while Eduardo Bautista and Fernando… Read more »
FC Debate Team Takes First Place in Community College Sweepstakes at Aztec Invitational
The Fullerton College Speech and Debate Team participated at the Aztec Invitational hosted by San Diego State University on Oct. 7 and 8. The Hornet debate team finished first place in the community college debate sweepstakes division; this award is determined based on the collective success of a debate program entered in the tournament. Fullerton… Read more »
Speech and Debate Competes at PSCFA Warm Up
[tabs slidertype=”simple”][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][tab][/tab][/tabs] The Fullerton College Speech and Debate Team participated in the Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensics Association’s Warm-Up Tournament at El Camino College on September 30 to October 1. On Saturday, September 30, Fullerton College teams Ryan Martinez and Gio Solis along with Jessica Ramirez and Donald Hammonds acquired wins over private university Point Loma Nazarene. Martinez… Read more »
Debate Team Finishes Third at NEDA National Tournament
[tabs slidertype=”simple”][tab][/tab] [tab][/tab] [tab][/tab] [tab][/tab][/tabs] Fullerton College debaters took home numerous awards during the 20th annual National Educational Debate Association (NEDA) National Championship Tournament on March 10 and 11 held at Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana. The topic for this year’s tournament was “The United States federal government should substantially reduce dependency on fossil fuels.”… Read more »
Fullerton College Debaters Take Top Awards at 2017 Spring Swing Tournament
Fullerton College debaters competed against teams from CSUN, CSUF, and CSUM at the Spring Swing tournament hosted jointly by Fullerton College and CSUF on March 3 and 4. On Friday, Fullerton College debaters Kitiny Phumchun and Alyssa Aguilar went 4-0 and won the top debate team award along with 1st and 2nd place speaker awards respectively.… Read more »
FC Debaters Take Top Awards at Hornet Invitational
[tabs slidertype=”simple”][tab][/tab] [tab][/tab] [tab][/tab] [tab][/tab] [tab][/tab] [tab][/tab] [tab][/tab][/tabs] Fullerton College debaters prevailed against teams from Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Maritime at the Spring 2017 Hornet Invitational hosted by Fullerton College on Friday, Feb. 10. In the open division, Fullerton College’s team of Alyssa Aguilar and Kitiny Phumchun finished first place with a perfect 3-0 record and earned first and second place… Read more »
FC Alumnus Takes Speech and Debate to New Heights
Fullerton College alum Joseph Phillips knows a little about persuasive debate. Before transferring to California State University, Maritime Academy earlier this year the former FC Forensics Speech and Debate member persuaded a group of students at Cal Maritime to start up their own speech and debate team, which is now competing with Phillips as their… Read more »
