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Extemp Central continues to get caught up on state tournament action with this third state tournament recap providing results for competitions in Idaho, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. These tournaments and those that will be recapped over the next several weeks are 2016 Extemp TOC qualifiers as TOC guidelines provide automatic entry for a 2015 state finalist if their state championship was held after April 4.
Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association State Tournament
The University of Oklahoma hosted the 2015 Oklahoma Secondary School Activity Association (OSSAA) State Tournament on April 9-11, 2015. The tournament has four different classes ranging from 3A to 6A and there are International and United States Extemp divisions within each.
The tournament featured some repeat winners as Patrick Wilson of Booker T. Washington High School defended his International Extemp championship in Class 6A and Taylor Putman of Muldrow High School, a sophomore, won the International Extemp title in Class 4A. Class 5A International Extemp nearly saw a repeat winner as well, but defending champion Josh Yoo of Metro Christian Academy was defeated by teammate Cole McNeese.
Another headline of the tournament was freshman James Morley of Riverfield Country Day School winning the Class 3A United States Extemp category.
The other state winner in International Extemp was Nicholas Hartman of Riverfield Country Day in Class 3A.
Micah Cash took the Class 6A United States Extemp title, winning it for Booker T. Washington for a fourth consecutive year. Cash was an MBA invitee earlier in the season. Other United States Extemp state champions were Chris Allen of Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School in Class 5A and Gagan Moorthy of Alva High School in Class 4A.
Since Oklahoma’s state tournament happened after April 2, all underclassmen that reached the final round of their respective extemp category earned an automatic qualification to the 2016 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University. Those automatically qualifying are indicated in italics below.
Class 6A International Extemp
Champion: Patrick Wilson (Booker T. Washington High School)
2nd: Grant Bumgarner (Booker T. Washington High School)
3rd: Nicky Halterman (Norman High School)
4th: Gabi Glidewell (Moore High School)
Class 5A International Extemp
Champion: Cole McNeese (Metro Christian Academy)
2nd: Josh Yoo (Metro Christian Academy)
3rd: Garrett Eakers (Harding Charter Preparatory High School)
4th: Isaac Kabrick (Harding Charter Preparatory High School)
Class 4A International Extemp
Champion: Taylor Putman (Muldrow High School)
2nd: Alex Hinshaw (Comanche High School)
3rd: Eli Tatman (Muldrow High School)
4th: Khelson Partain (Muldrow High School)
Class 3A International Extemp
Champion: Nicholas Hartman (Riverfield Country Day School)
2nd: Emma Keely (Riverfield Country Day School)
T3rd: Alyssa Cherry (Colbert High School)
T3rd: Grant Crews (Okarche High School)
T3rd: Joseph Wagner(Cherokee High School)
4th: Chris Rogers (Haskell High School)
Class 6A United States Extemp
Champion: Micah Cash (Booker T. Washington High School)
2nd: Dylan Dawson (Norman North High School)
3rd: Leland Stange (Booker T. Washington High School)
4th: Maureen Haynes (Union High School)
Class 5A United States Extemp
Champion: Chris Allen (Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School)
2nd: Reece Vadney (Altus High School)
3rd: Raeleigh Pulliam (East Central High School)
4th: Seth Hale (Guymon High School)
Class 4A United States Extemp
Champion: Gagan Moorthy (Alva High School)
2nd: Meeka Smith (Muldrow High School)
3rd: Jacob Keith (Muldrow High School)
4th: Timothy Wise (Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences)
Class 3A United States Extemp
Champion: James Morley (Riverfield Country Day School)
2nd: Bryson Reece (Haskell High School)
3rd: Josh Hill (Hennessey High School)
4th: Logan Biggins (Binger-Oney High School)
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Idaho High School Activities Association State Tournament (Click here for tab sheet)
Highland High School retained the Idaho High School Activities Association (IHSAA) State Extemporaneous Speaking Championship for the second consecutive year at this year’s IHSAA State Tournament. The tournament took place between April 10 and 11 at Century High School in Pocatello, Idaho.
Gabe Grow of Highland won his first state championship by three ranks over Kaitlyn Dey of Meridian High School. Grow took two first place ranks in the final round to give Highland its third state winner since 2011 and second in as many years. Christian Cousins of Lake City High School finished third.
Dey automatically qualifies to next year’s Extemp TOC at Northwestern University by virtue of reaching the final round.
Champion: Gabe Grow (Highland High School)
2nd: Kaitlyn Dey (Meridian High School)
3rd: Christian Cousins (Lake City High School)
4th: Christian Weinrich (Hillcrest High School)
5th: Jack Bradley (Highland High School)
6th: Carly Scott (Filer High School)
Semi-Finalists
*Ximena Bustillo (Vallivue High School)
*Jules Clemens (Hillcrest High School)
*Abagail Poelstra (Lake City High School)
*Hannah Spear (Rocky Mountain High School)
*Paige Thompson (Jerome High School)
*Charlee Wambolt (Eagle High School)
*Jackson Widmyer (Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy)
*Darian Wood (Eagle High School)
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Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association State Tournament (Click here for tab sheet)
The Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association (WFCA) crowned a repeat winner at the league’s state tournament in Ripon, Wisconsin on April 10 and 11. Alekh Kale won the tournament for the second consecutive year in dominating fashion, taking four of five available first place ranks in the final round to achieve a seven rank margin of victory. The title defense was not as easy as Kale made it look, though, as he only made it through the semi-final round by one rank. Kale becomes the first champion to successfully defend their title since Abhilash Sandireddy, also of James Madison, accomplished the feat in 2012.
Isaac Rudin of Madison West High School finished in second place and TJ Pitz of West Bend West High School rounded out the top three.
Since Kale reached the outrounds of the 2015 Extemp TOC, he did not need to automatically qualify through the state tournament. However, Anand Raman of Madison West High School earned a qualification via this route.
Champion: Alekh Kale (James Madison Memorial High School)
2nd: Isaac Rudin (Madison West High School)
3rd: TJ Pitz (West Bend West High School)
4th: Nithin Alexander (Brookfield East High School)
5th: Anand Raman (Madison West High School)
6th: Anna Sattler (Cedarburg High School)
Semi-Finalists
*Alesha Guenther (Berlin High School)
*Sam Mast (Appleton East High School)
*Ben Miller (Hortonville High School)
*Jeff Rademaker (Appleton East High School)
*Suhas Raja (Whitefish Bay High School)
*Rasika Ramanathan (James Madison Memorial High School)
*Genevieve Redsten (Madison West High School)
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Massachusetts Speech and Debate League (Click here for tab sheet)
Newton South High School, a historic extemp power, finally broke back into the winner’s circle at this year’s Massachusetts Speech and Debate League (MSDL) State Tournament, held on April 11 at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts, even if it was not done by their highest ranked extemper in the National Points Race. Jason Ma won the tournament by one cumulative rank, defeating teammate and 2014 Yale Invitational and New York City Invitational winner Jasper Primack by two ranks in the final round. Ma is Newton South’s first extemp state champion since 2011.
This was the second year in a row that Primack finished in second place, as he was runner-up to Milton Academy’s Marshall Sloane at last year’s tournament. Sloane, who won last year’s championship as a freshman, was not able to defend his title in the final round after a fourth place rank in the first round of the tournament kept him from breaking out of prelims.
Like last year, Newton South High School placed three extempers in the final round, the most of any other school.
Four extempers – Alex Barrett of Shrewsbury High School, Rahul Chopra of Concord-Carlisle High School, and Ma and James Rao of Newton South – automatically qualify to next year’s TOC by virtue of being underclassmen in their state tournament final round.
Champion: Jason Ma (Newton South High School)
2nd: Jasper Primack (Newton South High School)
3rd: Rahul Chopra (Concord-Carlisle High School)
4th: Adam Tomasi (Sacred Heart High School)
5th: James Rao (Newton South High School)
6th: Alex Barrett (Shewsbury High School)
7th: Shaheen Bharwani (Milton Academy)