[fblike]
Numbers were down for this year’s Alief Taylor High School Tournament, a 2014 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) qualifier, after the tournament was rescheduled from its usual January date. Shretika Singh of Seven Lakes High School (TX) defeated Junyuan Tan of Alief Kerr High School (TX) and seventeen other competitors to win International Extemp. In United States Extemp, Franz Brotzen-Smith of Lamar High School (TX) defeated Princewell Imouokhome of Seven Lakes High School and twelve other competitors to win the title.
Alief Taylor was the last in-state TOC qualifying opportunity, aside from the Texas Forensic Association (TFA) State Tournament, for Texas extempers. Pranav Thanki of Seven Lakes High School was the only extemper to finish their at-large qualification at the tournament. Eight other extempers earned their first TOC qualifying leg and are indicated in italics in the results listing.
Here are the results of the 2014 Alief Taylor High School Tournament:
International Extemp
Champion: Shretika Singh (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
2nd: Junyuan Tan (Alief Kerr High School, Texas)
3rd: Quang Vu (Alief Elsik High School, Texas)
4th: Levi Dubose (Lamar High School – Houston, Texas)
5th: Divya Chilukuri (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
6th: Pranav Thanki (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)-XQ
United States Extemp
Champion: Franz Brotzen-Smith (Lamar High School – Houston, Texas)
2nd: Princewell Imouokhome (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
3rd: Simbai Mutandiro (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
4th: Monica Godinez (Cy-springs High School, Texas)
5th: Joanna Godinez (Cy-springs High School, Texas)
6th: Shawn Bhatia (Cypress Ridge High School, Texas)
Extemp Central thanks the Texas Forensic Association for posting a listing of finalists from this tournament.