El Vaquero

Issue date: 3/10/10 Section: Features

Media Credit: Richard Kontas BREAKING NEWS: GCC student Sally Morgan, center, won first place in persuasive speaking at the virtual tournament hosted by Glendale Community College in Arizona. She also won first place in the district tournament hosted by the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Her wins qualified her to compete in the AFA-NIET national tournament, and the points she acquired from her wins placed GCC in 10th place in individual events overall. Pictured with Morgan are Ira Heffler, left, and Jean Perry, right.

Cowboy-themed line dancing and a Western-style skit performed before the Saturday night awards ceremony defined the second annual speech and debate tournament held at GCC on Feb. 20 and 21.

College teams from San Diego and as far as El Paso, Texas showed up to compete in Glendale's "Golden Cowboy Swing" competitions which included informative speaking, prose, poetry, persuasion and impromptu.

Glendale was the host school for the first two days of the three day tournament. The third day of the tournament was held at Cal State L.A.

GCC students did not participate at the Glendale competitions. However, Sally Morgan, president of the GCC speech team, was a finalist for persuasive speaking at the Cal State L.A. competition held on Feb. 22.


Slideshow Media Credit: Richard Kontas

"Each school gets the chance to host their own tournament, and we thought it would be fun to make it a theme and have activities based on that theme," Morgan said. "And because we are the Vaqueros, we just thought we should adopt a cowboy theme.

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