CC Forensics’ Competitors Attend First Meet of the Season

Friday, December 14th students from Central Cambria traveled to Richland to compete at their first Forensics meet of the 2012-2013 season. While this was only the first meet of their extended season, CC had an outstanding showing with almost every competitor receiving a placing ribbon. In the category of Commentary, Josh Belsterling received a 4th place ribbon and Cameron Hoffman received a 3rd place award. In the category of Extemporaneous, Chris Nischalke received 5th place and Adam Trexler secured a 3rd place standing. “Josh, Cameron, Chris, and Adam were all newcomers this year, but each has worked diligently to bring home placing ribbons for CC, and I couldn’t be more proud of their efforts, stated co-coach, Mrs. Shirk. In the category of Declamation, Allyson Kotelnicki received a 6th place ribbon, Gina Bianucci received 4th place, and Josh Hodgson showed a strong start to his season with a 3rd place finish. “Josh is my returning competitor, so I expected great things from him this year, but I was also pleased at the success of my new competitors.” In the category of Informative, Andrew Reagan on his first showing received a 5th place. “Andrew is another new competitor that I believe has a promising season ahead of him, stated Shirk.” “Overall, I’m just so pleased with our team, and I believe we are going to have a very successful season ahead of us”-Shirk.

Student winners in the dramatic interpretation categories include: Prose- Kara Goughnour 6th place, Humorous- Steve Sloan 1st place, Serious- Jessie Brown 4th place and Ashley Wilt 3rd place, Duo- winners included Abby Morrell and Braden Hoffman- 4th place and the 2012 National Qualifying Duo team of Josh Remillard and Christoff Trexler who earned a 1st place ribbon. Mrs. Kokus states, “I’m very proud of the students’ hard work, especially as they juggle heavy academic and curricular schedules in addition to forensics. For many of the students, it was their first meet ever and they were strong representation not only of the forensics team, but of the high quality of students we have here at CCHS. It’s amazing to see how the team has grown in the past few years- we went from a team of just a handful of students to over 20 participants! I’m anxious for them to show their best at our upcoming competitions and hopefully we’ll have several qualify for state and nationals this season.”

CC Forensics’ coaches would also like to thank the following who worked as judges at the Richland meet: Rose Marie Sadosky- CC School Board member, Carrie Oswald- Blacklick Valley Retired Teacher, and Ryan Skiles, graduate student at the University of Central Florida (MFA Theatre). Central’s next meet will be on January 11th at Conemaugh Township. The team hopes that they will again have a very successful showing.