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Texas hosted the largest of the state tournaments held last weekend as more than one hundred extempers competed in International and United States Extemp at the 2014 Texas Forensic Association (TFA) State Tournament. Despite the large field, Plano Senior High School won both categories. In International Extemp, Abhinav Sridharan won by four ranks over Azhar Hussain of Southlake Carroll Senior High School. Sridharan becomes the first Plano Senior extemper to win International Extemp since 1989. Gregory Ross of Lamar High School (Houston) took third.
In United States Extemp, Ash Malhotra became the first Plano Senior extemper to win the category since 2011 and won by four ranks over 2013 NFL United States Extemp finalist Caro Achar from Cypress Creek High School. Cosmo Albrecht of Robert E. Lee High School, who won the United States Extemp portion of the Winston Churchill Classic this season, finished third.
Four extempers in each category earned an automatic qualification to this year’s Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University. They are indicated in italics in the results listing.
Extemp March Madness rolls on this coming weekend as Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky (KHSSL), Utah, (3A-5A), Washington, and Wyoming will host their state tournaments. If you get the results of these tournaments, please send them to us so we can post them on our website. If any of our readers in New Mexico know the results of their state tournament, please send those to me as well.
Here are the results of the 2014 Texas Forensic Association State Tournament (Click here for tab sheet):
International Extemp
Champion: Abhinav Sridharan (Plano Senior High School)
2nd: Azhar Hussain (Southlake Carroll Senior High School)
3rd: Gregory Ross (Lamar High School – Houston)
4th: Phoebe Lin (Plano West Senior High School)
5th: Kishan Srikanth (Plano Senior High School)
6th: Dylan Dickens (Friendswood High School)
Semi-Finalists
*Dylan Berens (Lamar High School – Houston)
*Erin Dunbar (Sandra Day O’Connor High School)
*Greg Fantin (Plano West Senior High School)
*Madi Gackenbach (Byron Nelson High School)
*Davis Larking (Parish Episcopal School)
*Connie Lee (Clear Brook High School)
*Chris Rice (Spring Woods High School)
*Shreetika Singh (Seven Lakes High School)
*Jan Soto (Harlingen South High School)
*Junyuan Tan (Alief Kerr High School)
*Ashley Tsao (Garland High School)
*Karna Venkatraj (A&M Consolidated High School)
Quarter-Finalists
*Katarina Antolovic (Pflugerville High School)
*Claire Brudner (Lamar High School – Houston)
*William Cook (Southlake Carroll Senior High School)
*Nicholas Curtis (Westwood High School)
*Poria Dorali (Travis High School)
*Andrew Guinn (Seven Lakes High School)
*Usmaan Hasan (Jasper High School)
*Ryan Kabir (Plano Senior High School)
*Ayesha Karnik (Flower Mound High School)
*Matthew Magee (Chapin High School)
*Kevin O’Brien (Southlake Carroll High School)
*Rupasri Shankar (Jasper High School)
*Kartik Sridhar (Plano Senior High School)
*Hasan Syed (Plano West Senior High School)
*Arjun Talpallikar (Clements High School)
*Hina Uddin (Foster High School)
*Raj Viswaprabakaran (Plano Senior High School)
*Christine Vo (Spring Woods High School)
*Caleb Walters (East View High School)
*Samuel Wang (Plano West Senior High School)
United States Extemp
Champion: Ash Malhotra (Plano Senior High School)
2nd: Caro Achar (Cypress Creek High School)
3rd: Cosmo Albrecht (Robert E. Lee High School)
4th: Sydney Walter (Salado High School)
5th: Diane Sun (Clements High School)
6th: Jordan Rojas (Hendrickson High School)
Semi-Finalists
*Eric Bailey (Bellaire High School)
*Jackson Crawford (Klein High School)
*David Dam (Westwood High School)
*Rachel Evans (Salado High School)
*Joshua Merritt (La Vernia High School)
*Courtney Pool (Byron Nelson High School)
*Nader Syed (Claudia Taylor High School)
*Jami Tanner (Klein High School)
*Lucca Timmerman (Clear Creek High School)
*Berryman Toler (Richardson High School)
*John Williams Van Der Schans (Centennial High School)
*Thomas Yu (Texas Academy of Math and Science)
Quarter-Finalists
*Steven Clark (Byron Nelson High School)
*Christian Cordova (Jersey Village High School)
*Chiamaka Echebiri (Alief Elsik High School)
*Angelo Gaunichaux (Westfield High School)
*Joshua Graham (Plano West Senior High School)
*Matthew Gwilliam (Spring High School)
*Kyle Hillman (Cy-Fair High School)
*Jacob Kramer (Summit International Preparatory)
*Daniel Morgan (St. Thomas High School)
*Param Nayar (Plano Senior High School)
*Enoma E. Osakue (Hightower High School)
*Justin Raine (Stratford High School – Houston)
*Brittany Scofield (Seven Lakes High School)
*Hunter Stevens (Allen High School – Lowery)
*Wyatt Thompson (Abilene Cooper High School)
*Quang Vu (Alief Elsik High School)
*Laura Wolff (Ridge Point High School)
*Hayden Wyatt (Spring High School)