8. Cedar Ridge

The Hawk Speech & Debate team competed at the Cedar Ridge TFA Tournament this past weekend. The Hawks brought home 1st Place Sweepstakes again, this time besting Westwood, Westlake, Lake Travis along with 16 other schools. Individual results are as follows:

• Policy Debate

Co-Champions– Nico Williams/Elan Wilson & Christina Bui/Ayu Sofyan

Semifinals – Cody Snow & Emma Ha

1^st Place Speaker – Cody Snow

2^nd Place Speaker – Elan Wilson

3^rd Place Speaker – Christina Bui

• Public Forum Debate

2^nd Place – Hannah Benton & Jennifer Nguyen

Quarterfinals –Anshika Agrawal & Vivi Vargas

• Congressional Debate

8^th Place – Siegen Bretzke

• Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking

3^rd Place – Nico Williams

5^th Place – Sammy Nguyen

8^th Place – Emma Ha

Semifinals –Salem Fezum, Vivi Vargas

• Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking

Semifinals –Hannah Benton, Anshika Agrawal, Jennifer Nguyen

• Dramatic Interpretation

5^th Place – Brian Baker

• Duet Acting

3^rd Place – Brian Baker / Victoria Herdman

4^th Place – Tishara Salinas / Daniel Cherry

6^th Place – Sidney Stogel / Jonathan Selvera

7^th Place – Vivian Preuss / Krystal Daoud

• Duo Interpretation

1^st Place – Joelle Abdallah / Kayla Glover

• Original Oratory

4^th Place – Elizabeth Keiser

• Novice Extemporaneous Speaking

1^st Place – Rene Otero

3^rd Place – Sydney Stogel

6^th Place – Trey Gutierrez

Semifinals – Marisa Ancira, Tomi Bello, Sophie Nguyen, Dylan Scott, Jianna Smith, Bryce Hann, Sofia Valdespino,

• Novice Policy Debate

1^st Place – Tim Benton & Dylan Scott

2^nd Place –Alex Nguyen & Tim Gaona

Semifinals – Nabila Nader & Anthony Ngo

Semifinals – Mahnoor Faheem & McKenna Lucas

1^st Place Speaker – Anthony Ngo

2^nd Place Speaker – Nabila Nader

• Novice Public Forum Debate

1^st Place – Lhila Nguyen-Perez / Marisa Ancira

2^nd Place – Kayla White & Jianna Smith

Semifinals –Jianna Smith / Rene Otero

Quarterfinals – Tomi Bello / Max Sanchez

• Novice Poetry Interpretation

1^st Place – Jonathan Selvero

Semifinals – Tishara Salinas

• Novice Prose Interpretation

Semifinals – Brenden Wilkenson, Nathan Phommavanh