The Bloomsburg University speech and debate team won the First Place Team Sweepstakes Award at the Collegiate Forensic Association’s Annual Beach Tournament in Ocean City, Md., recently.
BU finished ahead of Florida College, Randolph-Macon College, Shepherd University, the University of Richmond, and the University of Lynchburg. The win was the fourth straight tournament in which Bloomsburg brought home the First Place Team award. BU also won the prestigious CFA “Welch-Strine” Cup that recognizes the top speech and debate team in the Collegiate Forensic Association for the academic year.
Nicholas Sorkine from Mountain Top helped Bloomsburg to the win. Sorkine was first in Dramatic Duo (with Jonathan Roe), second in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Pentathlon, third in Persuasive Speaking, fourth as Best Speaker in Parliamentary Debate, and fifth in Parliamentary Debate (with Carson Rush) and Communication Analysis.
The Welch-Strine Cup is named for the founders of the CFA, Professor Emeritus, Harry C. Strine III of Bloomsburg University and Dr. Robert Welch, Professor Emeritus of Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. This is the second time in three years BU has won the Welch-Strine Cup.
Every student on the BU Team won at least one speech/debate award with BU winning a total of 25 awards.
Bloomsburg University is one of 14 universities in Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. The university serves approximately 7,600 students, offering comprehensive programs of study in five distinct colleges: College of Education, Zeigler College of Business, College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Technology, and new Honors College.
