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The Mississippi High School Activities Association held its 2014 state tournament last week at Ridgeland High School. Elizabeth Liu of Madison Central High School won the cumulative tournament and her first state championship by five ranks over Albert Nabiullin of Sacred Heart Catholic School. John Pearce Robertson of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, a school that had won the last two state titles, finished third. Madison Central and St. Andrew’s Episcopal had two finalists at the tournament, which was more than any other school.
Five of the six finalists in the tournament were non-seniors, so those extempers have earned an automatic qualification to next year’s Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University. Those earning qualifications are indicated in italics below.
Here are the results of the 2014 Mississippi High School Activities Association State Speech Tournament (Click here for tab sheet):
Champion: Elizabeth Liu (Madison Central High School)
2nd: Albert Nabiullin (Sacred Heart Catholic School)
3rd: John Pearce Robertson (St. Andrew’s Episcopal School)
4th: Nikhil Arora (St. Andrew’s Episcopal School)
5th: Abby Nguyen (Oak Grove High School)
6th: Ian Hennington (Madison Central High School)
Semi-Finalists
*Sarah Garris (Petal High School)
*Molly Nguyen (St. Andrew’s Episcopal School)
*Reid Roberson (Brookhaven High School)
*Will Smith (Petal High School)
*Angela Stephens (Oak Grove High School)
*Ishan Thaker (St. Andrew’s Episcopal School)
Extemp Central thanks the Mississippi High School Activities Association for putting the results of the tournament online.