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Many more achievements!

posted ‎‎Mar 28, 2009 9:11 AM‎‎ by MVLA Speech and Debate
Tournament Congratulations from Stanford Tournament
Individual Events
Patrick Sheehan was both a SemiFinalist in Impromptu and the 7th Place Finalist in Spar Debate
Andrew Gilley was a SemiFinalist in Foreign Extemporaneous and the 6th Place Finalist in Impromptu
Rylan Schaeffer placed in Finals in an amazing 3 different events: the 5th Place Finalist in Foreign Extemporaneous, the 2nd Place Finalist in Impromptu, and the Champion in Spar Debate!
        
Debate Events
In Public Forum debate: Jasmine Xu and Stefan Tian were Double-OctaFinalists
In LD:  Ruchita Pendse was the Junior Varsity SemiFinalist
                 Jing Wang completed his Qualification for the Tournament of Champions
                 Jeff Merrill was a Double-OctaFinalist
                 Daniel Khalessi  was an OctaFinalist & 5th Speaker
                 Daniel Garber was an OctaFinalists and the Top Speaker
                 Natalee Pei was a QuarterFinalist
                 Daniel Moerner was the 4th Speaker and the Champion for the 2nd year in a row


Tournament Congratulations from Berkeley Tournament--there were 205 schools competing!

Individual Events
Dan Meierkort and Andrew Gilley were both QuarterFinalists in Impromptu
Sushmita Sridhar was a QuarterFinalist in Extemporaneous Speech
Mason Satterwhite was a SemiFinalist in Congress plus he received his first bid to the Tournament of Champions
Rylan Schaeffer was a Finalist and placed 8th in Congress in addition to receiving his first bid to the Tournament of Champions
        
Debate Events
Public Forum debate: Stefan Tian and Kevin McKee were Double-OctaFinalists
LD debate:      Jing Wang was a Triple OctaFinalist
                 Daniel Khalessi was a Double OctaFinalist and 20th Speaker
                 Daniel Garber was an OctaFinalist
                 Natalee Pei was a Quarter Finalist
                 Daniel Moerner was the Tournament Champion and 4th Speaker

Lynbrook Debate results

         Almog Gavra was undefeated in JV LD at Lynbrook!

State Qual Congress     
        Rylan Schaeffer will be attending the State Tournament in Congress
        Mason Satterwhite is the alternate for the State Tournament as a Presiding Officer

Harker Invitational

         Stefan Tan and Jasmine Xu were Quarter Finalists in Public Forum
         Ruchita Pendse and Saleil Bhat were Quarter Finalists in the Novice LD bracket
        Max McCarthy was the Champion in the Novice LD bracket
        Daniel Garber was 2nd Speaker and an Octa Finalist in Varsity LD
        
         Natalee Pei was 6th Speaker and a Quarter Finalist in Varsity LD
        Daniel Khalessi was 5th Speaker and the Champion in Varsity LD
        Mason Satterwhite was the 5th Place Finalist in Congress and completed his Qualifier for the TOC
        Chris Galdamez was the 4th Place Finalist in Congress and received his first bid to the TOC
        Rylan Schaeffer was the Champion in Congress and completed his Qualifier for the TOC


Nat Qual

         Rylan Schaeffer was a SemiFinalist in Foreign Extemporaneous
        Neha Shah is the First Alternate for Original Oratory for the National Tournament in Alabama in June
        Natalee Pei was the Champion in LD at the Qualifier and will be competing at the National Tournament


State Quals

         Semi-Finalists: Neha Shah - OO; Dan Meierkort - Impromptu; Patrick Sheehan - Impromptu; Sushmita Sridhar - FX; Arian Dehnow - DI; Dor Gvirtsman - HI
        Finalist (and attending State!): Jasmine Flake - OPP