Alexandrea Diaz - 4th in Expository - Garden City
Sydney Parriott - Semifinalist in Expository - Salina Central
Davis Mattek - 5th in Extemp Commentary - Salina Central
Gavin Hanson - Finalist in House - Sacred Heart
Sean Bender - Quarterfinalist in IX - Sacred Heart
Evan Habluetzel - Semifinalist in House - Buhler
Kaitlin Morey - 3rd place debate speaker - Hutchinson
Todd Wells - Finalist for Student of the Year - Garden City
Kaitlin Morey / Tyler Blake - Made round 9 - Policy Debate - Hutchinson
Katie Benson / Max Goering - Made Round 8 - Policy Debate - McPherson
June 2009 @ Wisconsin
Salina Central – Brandon Daley – Octofinals in HI, Sydney Parriott – Octofinals in Oration
Sterling – Samuel Leake – 3rd place in Expository, Megan Walker – Quarterfinals in DI
Hutchinson – Rachel Shannon – Semifinals in House, Stefan Mattox & Katelin Morey – Round 9 in Policy
Lyons – Vance Stegman – Semifinals in Prose
Garden City – Todd Wells & Amanda Ramirez – Round 9 in Policy
Great Bend – John Stang – Semifinals in Impromptu – Quarterfinals in IX
Newton – William Newell & Tyler Prochazka – Round 8 in Policy
Sacred Heart – Sean Bender – Octofinals in IX
In Individual Events, 2 of our extempers advanced to elimination rounds. Zach Collins (Newton) advanced to semi-finals (top 14) in foreign extemp while Grant Hodges (Salina Central) advanced to quarter-finals (top 30) in domestic extemp. Both Allison Stuewe (Salina Central) & Brandon Daley (Salina Central) advanced to octa-finals in humorous interp. Sarah Pohl (Moundridge) advanced to quarter-finals in dramatic interp. Bre Roach (Sterling) advanced to octa-finals in original oration. Alexis Copeland (Hays) was a semi-finalist in Prose. In Expository Speaking, West Kansas proadly boasts the NATIONAL CHAMPION & RUNNER-UP. Allison Steuwe (Salina Cental) was the Champion with Bre Roach (Sterling) being named Runner-up.
In Student Congress, Sarah Shier (Salina Central) finished 5th in Senate while Rachel Shannon (Hutchinson) advanced to semifinals.
In Debate, Becca Rodriquez (Buhler) reached the initial break round of Lincoln-Douglas Debate.
In Individual Events, 3 of our extempers advanced to elimination rounds. Both Zach Collins (Newton) & Keenan Hogan (Lyons) advanced to quarterfinals (top 30) in domestic extemp, while Joey Ralph (Buhler) made it to semifinals (finished 12th) in foreign extemp. Josh Hafner (Great Bend) advanced to finals in Humorous Interp, finishing 6th while Illiana Krehbiel (Salina Central) finished 6th in Storytelling. James Hall (Salina Central) was a semifinalist in Storytelling. Dinkel/Stout (Garden City) were octafinalists in Duo Interp.
In Student Congress, Sarah Shier (Salina Central) finished 9th in Senate while Allison Steuwe (Salina Central) finished 18th in House while Hunter Hess (McPherson) advanced to semifinals.
In debate, both the policy team (Higgins/Harzman) and the public forum team (Kline/Lohf) from Salina South advanced to the initial elimination rounds.
In Individual Events, 3 of our 5 extempers advanced to elimination Rounds. Both Seth Peckham (Lyons) in Domestic Extemp and Matt Stucky (Moundridge) in Foreign Extemp, advance to finals. Peckham finished 5th in the nation, while Stucky finished 4th. Trent Byquist (Salina Central) advanced to quarterfinals (top 30) in Domestic Extemp.
In Student Congress, Jason Carey (Hutchinson) advanced to semifinals in the Senate.
In Debate, the policy team of Groeblacher & Parkins (McPherson) advanced to rounds 9 & 10. Bret Higgins also advanced to elimination rounds in LD.
In Individual Events, 3 of our 4 extempers advanced to elimination rounds. In Foreign Extemp, Matt Stucky (Moundridge) advanced to the semifinals (top 14), while Seth Peckham (Lyons) advanced to quarterfinals (top 30) in Domestic Extemp. Dustin Engelken (Ellsworth) also advanced in Domestic Extemp, being in the top 60. Torrance Parkins (McPherson) advanced to the top 60 in Original Oration.
In Student Congress, Kristen Skolaut (Hutch Trinity)
advanced to the super session in Congress (House).
In Debate, the policy team of Speed/Vieyra (McPherson) and the public forum team of Higgins/Gabriel (Salina South) both advance to run-off rounds of competition.
In Individual Events, two of our four extempers advanced
to elimination rounds. In Foreign Extemp, Matt Stucky (Moundridge) advanced to the top
30 and in US Extemp, Seth Peckham (Lyons) advanced to the top 60. Jared
Barton (
In Student Congress, Kristen Skolaut (Hutch Trinity)
placed 10th in Congress (House).
The Policy Debate team of Christian Brockman and Paul
Roath (Hutchinson) advanced 10 rounds.
In supplementary events, Susan Alsop (Garden City) was a
semifinalist in expository while Megan Russell (Salina Central) advanced to the
top 22 and Karson Thompson (Garden City) advanced to the top 30. In Impromptu,
Seth Peckham (
The Policy Debate team of Jill Koehler and Andrew Richards (McPherson) advanced 13 rounds and placed 8th. Michael Bretches and Scott Smith (Hutchinson) placed in the top 30 after advancing 10 rounds, and Bretches was the 4th Top Speaker overall.
In Student Congress, Jessica Johnson (Lyons) advanced to the Semifinal round of the Senate.
In Individual Events, three of our four extempers advanced to elimination rounds. Michael Bretches (Hutchinson) placed 7th in United States Extemp, and Karson Thompson (Garden City) advanced to the top 60. Matt Clark (Buhler) also advanced to the top 60 in Foreign Extemp. Emily Duerkson (McPherson) double broke, advancing to the top 60 in Dramatic and Humorous Interpretation. Chris French and Daniel Hedlund (Great Bend) advanced 10 rounds in Duo Interpretation, and Hedlund also advanced 8 rounds in Humorous Interpretation. Another Duo from Great Bend, Jarod Barton and Zach Ralston, advanced 8 rounds.
In supplementary events, Brock Wilbur from Salina South advanced to the Semifinals of Prose, and Aaron Payne (Garden City) placed in the top 30 of Extemp Commentary.
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