Students win in Mandarin speaking competition

May 7th 2012
Awards, Students
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Photo: Chinese Speech Contest
Seven UW-Madison students won medals at the Midwest Chinese Speech Contest held at Northwestern University this past weekend.

University of Wisconsin-Madison seven students took home prizes at the Midwest Universities Chinese Speech Contest held at Northwestern University in Chicago last Saturday.

The UW-Madison team consisted of seven students who won awards in all categories:

  • 3 gold medalists: Alicia Montague-Keels, Dalian Urbonya and Isaac Hube
  • 3 silver medalists: Richard Young, Samantha Moritz and Sei Hwan Ju
  • 1 bronze medalist: James Hoffmire

Dalian Urbonya, one of fourth year Chinese major students and one of the three gold medalists from UW, beat all the other contestants. She was chosen by the event judges to be the only representative of the Midwest college students to attend the 11th Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students, which is an international level competition held in China this July.

Fifty-five students from about 10 universities from  Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin competed at this event.

Click here to read more about this year's event.