DVC speech & debate team – Northern California Forensics Association 1st place overall champions
Over the last three years the DVC”s speech and debate team (also known as forensics) has become the most dominant team in northern California. This last weekend the 40+ person team won their 3rd consecutive NCFA Championship, crowning DVC the undisputed champions of NorCal.
The DVC community college students defeated students from UC Berkeley, the University of the Pacific and many other universities and community colleges. Not only didDVC win overall as a team by almost double the next closest team’s score, but many individual students were named champions in their specific events.
The forensics team competes in a wide range of events, each emphasizing different communication and critical thinking skills, and displayed excellence across all of them. This northern California championship is also a great opportunity for alumni to come out to support the team. Multiple alumni of the forensics team, across multiple eras of the teams illustrious history, helped serve as judges for the tournament and offer words of wisdom as the students head into competition.
Below is a list of the team’s accomplishments from the NCFA Championship. Send your support to the team as they head off to State and Nationals, or consider joining the team next fall by enrolling on COMM 163 or emailing rhawkins@dvc.edu for more information.
Robert Hawkins
Director of Forensics
Diablo Valley College: Northern California Forensics Association 1st Place Overall Champions (x3 Peat)
Open Duo Interpretation
1st Chris Pratt and Matt Denny
2nd Sydney Alexander And Nicole Sims
3rd Nicole Sims and Matt Denny
4th Vegas Darst-Horn And Justin Crawford
Open Dramatic Interpretation
1st Nicole Sims
2nd Chris Pratt
3rd Justin Crawford
4th Miranda Hansen
Open Informative Speaking
1st Cierra White
Open After Dinner Speaking
1st Nicole Sims
Open Persuasive Speaking
5th Cierra White
Open Communication Analysis
3rd Miranda Hansen
Open Prose
3rd Miranda Hansen
5th Vegas Darst-Horn
Open Program Oral Interpretation
2nd Sydney Alexander
Student Fellowship Award Winner
Nicole Sims
Overall Speaker
2nd Place Nicole Sims
Junior Varsity Parliamentary Debate
3rd Place Eric Tubbs and Gabriel Zimmerman
JV Parliamentary Debate Speaker
2nd Place Gabriel Zimmerman
9th Place Eric Tubbs
Novice Extemporaneous Speaking
1st Gabriel Zimmerman
Novice Program Oral Interpretation
1st La La Miller
2nd Elva Gonzales
Novice Persuasive Speaking
1st Anastasia Tejada
2nd Ariel Tonessi
Novice Informative Speaking
2nd Sarah Richards
4th Haley Burr
Novice Prose Interpretation
2nd La La Miller
3rd Layla Keshavarz-Fard
5th Yuya Shimbori
Novice Poetry Interpretation
2nd Paola Lopez