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):
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