Local students excel on Malone University (Canton, Ohio) speech and debate team

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Marisa Lolli

CANTON , OH (02/12/2013)(readMedia)-- The Malone University forensics team uses the gift of speech to glorify God. Students research, write, and present speeches and interpretive performances on current and relevant topics, competing against other colleges and universities. Students work toward creating four different events to develop specific speaking skills. They compete with the same selections for the academic year. There are 11 different event categories and awards are given to the top 6 finishers in each event.

Local students who have received top honors include:

Marisa Lolli, a freshman early childhood education major from Canton, Ohio.  Lolli took 3rd place at the Muskingum University tournament in Dramatic Interpretation with a modern-day retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story with a new revelation that she is a worthy individual.

Lolli also took 5th place at the Marietta College tournament in Dramatic Interpretation with Alice.

And she took 1st place at the Morgan State University tournament in Dramatic Interpretation with Alice, as well as 3rd place in Prose with Daisy Fay, the tragic yet uplifting story of a young girl who survives a house fire, parent's divorce and the death of her mother.

Malone University (Canton, Ohio), a Christian university for the arts, sciences, and professions in the liberal arts tradition, affiliated with the Evangelical Friends Church, awards both undergraduate and graduate degrees in more than 100 academic programs. Malone has been recognized by the prestigious Templeton Foundation as a leader in character development, as one of Northeast Ohio's Top Workplaces by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and is ranked among the top colleges and universities in the Midwest under the category Regional Universities according to U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2013.

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