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The Ohio High School Speech League (OHSSL) held its state tournament last weekend at Canfield and Boardman High Schools. Forty-seven extempers participated in the International Extemp half of the tournament and fifty extempers participated in the United States Extemp half.
In International Extemp, Brenden Kost of Wauseon High School won his school’s first championship in the category, finishing two ranks ahead of Priya Podugu of Jackson High School. Podugu was trying to give Jackson its third International Extemp winner in the last four seasons. Wake Forest champion Yijia Liang of Upper Arlington High School finished three ranks back, taking third place. Allison Christopher of Ursuline High School finished fourth, which was three places better than her showing last season.
In United States Extemp, Berthy Feng of the Laurel School posted a four rank margin of victory over Brianna Ledsome of Niles McKinley High School. Feng’s victory gives the Laurel School two United States Extemp state champions in the last three years. Jad Hamdan of Jackson High School, who finished runner-up last season, ended the tournament in third place, five ranks behind Feng.
Eleven extempers earned an automatic qualification to this year’s Extemp TOC at Northwestern University by making the final round of their respective extemp category. Those earning an automatic qualification are indicated in italics below.
Here are the results of the 2015 Ohio High School Speech League State Tournament (Click here for tab sheet):