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This year’s South Carolina Forensic Coaches Associatin State Tournament featured a first-time winner as Roann Abdeladi of Greenville Tech Charter High School captured the championship by five ranks over Unshu Biyani of Riverside High School. The victory is the first for Greenville Tech, with Abdeladi thwarting Riverside’s effort to have back-to-back winners after Nida Ansari won last year’s title.
The tournament was cumulatively tabbed, with a competitors preliminary, semi-final, and finals rankings factoring into their total score. Abdeladi won the final round with a composite score of six versus Biyani’s score of nine. Fifth place finisher Jordan Childs of Riverside also finished the final round with a total of nine ranks.
Andrew P. Clater of Bob Jones Academy finished third.
All of the finalists earned an automatic qualification to the 2015 Extemp TOC at Northwestern University.
Here are the results of the 2015 South Carolina Forensic Coaches Association State Tournament (Click here for tab sheet):
Nida Ansari of Riverside High School returned to the winner’s circle at last week’s 2014 South Carolina Forensic Coaches Association (SCFCA) State Tournament when she won her second state championship in extemporaneous speaking. Ansari, who won the 2012 United States Extemp state title (South Carolina discontinued splitting IX and USX last year), won the cumulative tournament by three ranks over teammate Yasmin Meyer. Meyer won the final round, but she only won the final round by one rank, which was not enough to cut into the lead Ansari built throughout the tournament. Harrison Stall of Southside High School, who was the defending champion, finished third. The spring semester has been a good one for Ansari, as she adds this year’s state title to a successful defense of her Laird Lewis Invitational championship and a runner-up finish at the Barkley Forum.
International Extemp
Champion: Dillon Shumpert (Berkeley High School)
Champion: Abhi Pandya (Southside High School)
Champion: Paavan Gami (Southside High School, South Carolina)