Jackson Community College

Forensics students compete at Phi Rho Pi tournament

Jackson Community College’s forensics team participated last week in the largest Phi Rho Pi conference and tournament in the history of the organization. Seventy-four schools and more than 600 participants, coaches and judges attended the event held at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Illinois and hosted by the College of DuPage.

JCC, which has a long history with Phi Rho Pi, was represented by students Montgomery Beauchene and Monica Rasmussen. Beauchene competed in poetry and dramatic interpretation, while Rasmussen competed in prose, dramatic interpretation and impromptu. Rasmussen advanced to the elimination rounds and received silver for her prose interpretation of “A Moonlit Night with Rats” by Elizabeth Ingstrom.

JCC finished the tournament ranked eighth in individual events and 12th overall in combined IE and debate scoring.

Phi Rho Pi is a national speech organization committed to increasing knowledge and appreciation of the forensics arts at the junior and community college level. It has the distinct honor of being one of the oldest forensics organizations, having been founded in 1939.