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University of Alabama Wins National Poetry Championship; Cantonment Resident Places
April 21, 2013
The University of Alabama has brought home another national championship trophy, while a Cantonment native also placed nationally.
Tuscaloosa native Thaddeus Fitzpatrick won first place in Poetry Interpretation at the American Forensic Association-National Individual Events Tournament this month and also finished ninth in the individual sweepstakes out of 198 total students. It marked back-to-back championships for Fitzpatrick, who was national champion in prose interpretation in 2012.
Fitzpatrick’s performance led the Alabama Forensic Council, UA’s speech and debate team, to a fifth place national finish. Junior Collin Metcalf, a gradate of Tate High School, is a member of the team, which placed in the top five for the first time since 2006.
Metcalf placed fourth in Extemporaneous Speaking and ninth place in Impromptu Speaking.
Full results are listed below:
5th Place Team Sweepstakes
Thaddeus Fitzpatrick, senior, Tuscaloosa
National champion, Poetry Interpretation
9th Place Individual Sweepstakes
4th place, Prose Interpretation (finalist)
8th place, Dramatic Interpretation
(semi-finalist)
17th place, Duo Interpretation with Taylor McDonald
Kalyn Lee, freshman, Hoover
19th place, Persuasive Speaking (quarter-finalist)
Collin Metcalf, junior, Cantonment
4th place Extemporaneous Speaking (finalist)
9th place, Impromptu Speaking
(semi-finalist)
Davis Vaughn, junior, Montgomery
19th place, Extemporaneous Speaking
(quarter-finalist)
15th place, Persuasive Speaking (quarter-finalist)
Kevin Pabst, junior, Niceville,
19th place, Communication Analysis (quarter-finalist)
Taylor McDonald, senior, Prattville
4th place, Dramatic Interpretation (finalist)
7th place, Prose Interpretation
(semi-finalist)
17th place, Duo Interpretation with Thaddeus Fitzpatrick (quarter-finalist)
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One Response to “University of Alabama Wins National Poetry Championship; Cantonment Resident Places”
Way to go Colin! You were an extraordinary young man way back in second grade and you still are!! Congratulations and good luck in the future.
Mrs. Karen Mattox