Brookings Speech and Debate

The bobcats traveled to Yankton on January 28 and 29th to compete in the Lewis and Clark Invitational.   Interp:  Grace Davis - 3rd Drama Livermont/Doom -4th Duo Olivia Anderson - 1st Humor, 2nd POI Lillie Foster - 3rd Humor Nic Schran - 3rd POI Speech: Nancy Yang - 3rd Novice Oratory Congress:  Aditya Tummala - 1st Friday Emily Hua - 2nd Friday Albert Shore - 3rd Friday Sampada Nepal - 5th Friday Nancy Yang - 2nd Saturday Debate: Shore/Shore - 2nd Varsity Public Forum Hua/Nepal - 3rd Varsity Public Forum 

Friday and Saturday, January 21-22 saw a fiesta on the frozen tundra.  That is, the Bobcats traveled to Watertown for the annual Speech Fiesta.   Interp:  Olivia Anderson -- 1st Humorous Tyler Livermont -- 3rd Humorous Hilmoe/Kuebler -- 1st Novice Duo Speech:  Aditya Tummala -- 3rd International Extemp Nancy Yang -- 5th Novice Oratory Congress:  Albert Shore -- 2nd Friday Congress Debate:   Shore/Shore -- 3rd JV Public Forum

  The Bobcats started their conference series on Jan. 8 at Lennox High School.  The first tournament in the set of 3 was cancelled due to winter weather.  Interp:  Olivia Anderson -- 1st Program Oral Interp Poppen/Casper -- 3rd Duo Interp Speech:  Emily Hua -- 3rd Varsity Oratory Aditya Tummala -- 1st Varsity Extemp Emily Hua -- 4th Varsity Extemp Alex Shore -- 1st Novice Extemp Aditya Tummala -- 1st Informative  Congress:  Will Hummel -- 1st Varsity Congress Albert Shore -- 1st Varsity Congress Debate:  Shore/Shore -- 2nd Varsity Public Forum Ting/Hummel -- 4th Varsity Public Forum Hua/Nepal -- 3rd Varsity Public Forum Ting/Nyawanda -- 1st Novice Public Forum Xander Hof -- 4th Varsity Lincoln-Douglas

  The Brookings Speech and Debate Team hosted over 400 people from 17 different schools at our annual Brookings Bell Tournament.  Brookings competitors placed well.  Interp:  Olivia Anderson - 4th Program Oral Interp Tyler Livermont -- 1st Humorous Grace Davis -- 4th Drama Speech:  Nancy Yang -- 1st Novice Oratory Alex Shore -- 6th Novice Extemp Aditya Tummala -- 4th International Extemp Debate:  Ting/Nyawanda -- 1st Novice Public Forum Shore/Shore -- 3rd JV Public Forum Xander Hof -- 2nd Novice Lincoln-Douglas Congress:  Chase Struck-4th Friday Varsity Albert Shore-6th Friday Varsity

  Member of the interp team traveled to Huron to compete in the State Oral Interpretation Festival December 3-4.  Brookings brought home a team excellence award and six superior ratings.  Competing for Brookings:  Non-Original Oratory: Ava Hilmoe (Excellent)  Drama: Grace Davis (Superior)  Humor: Olivia Anderson (Superior)  Poetry: Nic Schran (Superior)  Storytelling: Tyler Livermont (Superior with Distinction)  Duo: Grace Davis and Jasmine Anawski (Superior with Distinction)  Readers Theater: Olivia Anderson, Kaitlyn Doom, Gavin DuBray, Tyler Livermont (Superior) 

  The bobcats traveled to the land of corn (aka Mitchell) to compete in the McGovern Invitational on November 19-20.  Aside from landing some whoppers  at Cabela's, the team also took home several top places.   Interp:  Olivia Anderson - 2nd Place Storytelling, 5th Place Humorous Stahl/Mohs/Harding -- 3rd Place Storytelling Grace Davis -- 2nd Drama Speech:  Alex Shore -- 6th Place Extemp Debate:  Tummala/Manzer -- 1st Place Varsity Public Forum Hua/Nepal -- 3rd Place Varsity Public Forum Ting/Nyawanda -- 1st Place Novice Public Forum Xander Hof -- 2nd Place Novice Lincoln-Douglas Congress:  Brooklyn Benthin- 1st Place Friday Novice  Mar ylin Lopez-3rd Place Friday Novice Aditya Tummala-1st Place Friday Varsity  Elijah Manzer-2nd Place Friday Varsity Albert Shore-5th Place Friday Varsity Saturday congress-Brooklyn Benthin-5th, JJ Love-7th