The Concordia University, Nebraska forensics team earned the title of national champions in Reader’s Theater and earned a second place Individual Events Sweepstakes overall for Division III schools in the 18th annual Christian College Nationals at Colorado Christian University March 20-22.
Individual speakers also had success at the national tournament. Students who placed at the event include: Marol Feickert, sophomore, Lawrenceville, NJ; Emily Kollbaum, sophomore, Concordia, MO; Melonie Kotschwar, junior, Seward, NE; Louvell Rogers, freshman, Lincoln, NE.
Marol Feickert won the Novice Program of Oral Interpretation event and brought home second and sixth place wins in the Novice and Open Interpretation of Faith Literature categories, respectively. Emily Kollbaum and Melonie Kotschwar earned third place in Novice Duo Interpretation of Literature. As individual speakers in Novice Dramatic Interpretation, Kotschwar earned seventh place, Kollbaum earned fourth and Louvell Rogers earned third.
The team competed against speakers from 22 other Christian colleges from around the country.
Concordia University, Nebraska, founded in 1894, is a fully accredited, coeducational university located in Seward, Nebraska, that currently serves more than 2,300 students. Concordia offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate and professional programs in an excellent academic and Christ-centered community that equips men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and world. For more information, visit cune.edu.