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New Zealand has the world’s best, 2nd best, and 4th best speaker

September 15th, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized

Amazing news just in from Washington. Jen Savage has become only the second New Zealander ever, and the first in the “modern era” (where the speaker prizes are calculated using individual scores from the preliminary rounds, as opposed to an actual individual speaking competition – which was a comedy contest) to win the best speaker prize.

UPDATE: Ben Kornfeld was the 2nd best speaker and Holly Jenkins was 4th.

These are amazing results and reflect just how much New Zealand dominated the tournament.

See the story on Stuff and a photo of Jen on the WSDC Blog.

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7 Comments so far

  1. Pei September 15th, 2008 1:50 pm

    Well done guys!

  2. Paul Collins September 15th, 2008 2:30 pm

    Absolutely stunning. All at Wanganui Collegiate knew Jen was good, now the rest of the world know too…..

  3. Ken & Jenny Forster September 15th, 2008 2:36 pm

    Congratulations Jen. You have done so well. And to each one in the team – well done. What a great effort, and NZ can be rightly proud of you all

  4. Kate Stewart September 15th, 2008 2:45 pm

    Go Jen, what a stunner!! Well done to you all.

  5. Yogesh September 15th, 2008 4:16 pm

    Amazing effort Jen, very stoked for you!

  6. Kent Peters September 15th, 2008 6:32 pm

    Jen congrats on your amazing award. Well done and congrats to the whole team. You have made us all very proud.

  7. Sonia October 15th, 2008 3:00 pm

    holly jenkins sucks. she doesn’t deserve that, she’s unreasonable and very difficult to work with. i know this from experience. well done jen!

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