OK Speech and Debate: Tournament Schedule has been POSTED!!!

Here is a brief synopsis. Check out www.ncfca.org for all of the details!

Shawnee, OK
All-Region Qualifier
Jan. 7-10, 2015
Oklahoma Baptist University

Austin All-Region Qualifier
Feb 4-7, 2015
Great Hills Baptist Church

Frisco All-Region Qualifier
March 11-14, 2015
First Baptist Church

Wylie District A Qualifier
April 8-11, 2015
First Baptist Church

Conroe District B Qualifier
April 15-18, 2015
First Baptist Church

Edmond, OK
Region IV Invitational Tournament (qualification required)
May 6-9
Oklahoma Christian University

The fear of public speaking...

“Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an audience?" Did you ever notice in looking from a train window that some horses feed near the track and never even pause to look up at the thundering cars, while just ahead at the next railroad crossing a farmer's wife will be nervously trying to quiet her scared horse as
the train goes by? How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars—graze him in a back-woods lot where he would never see steam-engines or automobiles, or drive or pasture him where he would frequently see the machines?
Apply horse-sense to ridding yourself of self-consciousness and fear: face an audience as frequently as you can, and you will soon stop shying. You can never attain
freedom from stage-fright by reading a treatise. A book may give you excellent suggestions on how best to conduct yourself in the water, but sooner or later you must get wet, perhaps even strangle and be "half scared to death." There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.” ― Dale Carnegie

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Tournament Schedule has been POSTED!!!