Last week, the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational took place in Dallas, Texas.  The tournament allows extempers to participate in United States and International Extemp and Zachary Stone of Plano West High School in Texas and Nathan Leys of Des Moines Roosevelt Senior High School in Iowa exchanged finishes in those categories.  Stone won International Extemp, while lays won U.S. Extemp.  Leys is the first non-Texan to win an extemp category at St. Mark’s since 2007, when Mark Kozlowski of New Trier High School in Illinois won U.S. extemp.

Calculations will be made to determine which six extempers will receive National Points Race points, but since both extemp categories had more than forty extempers, all of the extempers who reached the semi-finals and beyond in each category earned bids to the 2012 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC)

Here are the full results (which can be accessed online here):

International Extemp

Champion:  Zachary Stone (Plano West High School, Texas)
2nd:  Nathan Leys (Des Moines Roosevelt Senior High School, Iowa)
3rd:  Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
4th:  Sydney Scott (Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” High School, Texas)
5th:  Cyrus Ghaznavi (Parish Episcopal School, Texas)
6th:  Lindsey Butler (Hendrickson High School, Texas)

Semi-Finalists

*Blade Angel (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
*Kayleigh Courard-Hauri (Des Moines Roosevelt Senior High School, Iowa)
*Tim Dominguez (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*David Engleman (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Matthew Gmitro (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Nick Lowrimore (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Lily Nellans (Des Moines Roosevelt Senior High School, Iowa)
*Sanjana Puri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Alex Pustelnyk (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
*Matthew Rindelaub (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Clancy Taylor (Flower Mound High School, Texas)

United States Extemp

Champion:  Nathan Leys (Des Moines Roosevelt Senior High School, Iowa)
2nd:  Zachary Stone (Plano West High School, Texas)
3rd:  Sydney Scott (Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird High School, Texas)
4th:  Sara Wofford (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
5th:  Lindsey Butler (Hendrickson High School, Texas)
6th:  Sahil Vanjani (Parish Episcopal School, Texas)

Semi-Finalists

*Blade Angel (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
*Chinmay Baxi (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Aaron Chou (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*David Engleman (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Cyrus Ghaznavi (Parish Episcopal School, Texas)
*Niki Nair (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Lily Nellans (Des Moines Roosevelt Senior High School, Iowa)
*Diana Pop (Newman Smith High School, Texas)
*Matthew Rindelaub (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Ariela Schnyer (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Clancy Taylor (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Zulian Tjuatja (Plano East Senior High School, Texas)

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