Bradley University’s speech team swept several categories during the National Forensic Association’s National Championship last weekend in Eau Claire, Wis.
Overall, the team placed second in the nation, competing against 77 colleges and universities. Several students placed first individually in the persuasive and poetry categories.
BU says in a news release the Bradley Speech Team has now won 161 individual national championships.
Western Kentucky University placed first and the University of Texas at Austin placed third in the tournament.
The top finishers from Bradley:
Persuasive - 1st Jerome Gregory and 2nd Abby Surprenant
After Dinner - 5th Abby Surprenant
Impromptu - 3rd Jerome Gregory
Informative - 2nd Jerome Gregory and 4th Abby Hanneman
Poetry - 1st Megan Magee
Prose - 6th Megan Magee
Rhetorical Criticism - 3rd Annie Schuver and 5th Jerome Gregory
- National Individual Sweepstakes - 1st Jerome Gregory and 5th Abby Surprenant