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

1st Place Speaker – Cody Snow

2nd Place Speaker – Elan Wilson

3rd Place Speaker – Christina Bui

• Public Forum Debate

2nd Place – Hannah Benton & Jennifer Nguyen

Quarterfinals –Anshika Agrawal & Vivi Vargas

• Congressional Debate

8th Place – Siegen Bretzke

• Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking

            3rd Place – Nico Williams

            5th Place – Sammy Nguyen

            8th Place – Emma Ha

            Semifinals –Salem Fezum, Vivi Vargas

• Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking

            Semifinals –Hannah Benton, Anshika Agrawal, Jennifer Nguyen

• Dramatic Interpretation

5th Place – Brian Baker

• Duet Acting

3rd Place – Brian Baker / Victoria Herdman

4th Place – Tishara Salinas / Daniel Cherry

6th Place – Sidney Stogel / Jonathan Selvera

7th Place – Vivian Preuss / Krystal Daoud

• Duo Interpretation

1st Place – Joelle Abdallah / Kayla Glover

• Original Oratory

4th Place – Elizabeth Keiser

• Novice Extemporaneous Speaking

1st Place – Rene Otero

3rd  Place – Sydney Stogel

6th Place – Trey Gutierrez

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

• Novice Policy Debate

1st Place – Tim Benton & Dylan Scott

2nd Place –Alex Nguyen & Tim Gaona

Semifinals – Nabila Nader & Anthony Ngo

Semifinals – Mahnoor Faheem & McKenna Lucas

1st Place Speaker – Anthony Ngo

2nd Place Speaker – Nabila Nader

• Novice Public Forum Debate

1st Place – Lhila Nguyen-Perez / Marisa Ancira

2nd Place – Kayla White & Jianna Smith

Semifinals –Jianna Smith / Rene Otero

Quarterfinals – Tomi Bello / Max Sanchez

• Novice Poetry Interpretation

1st Place – Jonathan Selvero

Semifinals – Tishara Salinas

• Novice Prose Interpretation

            Semifinals – Brenden Wilkenson, Nathan Phommavanh