The Hays Speech and Debate team won big this weekend at their first tournament of the year. Hays brought home second place sweepstakes based on the success of its team members in a field of nearly 600 competitors from 46 schools.
Students who placed are:
Matthew Boddy - 1st Place in Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking
Ryan Coffey - 8th Place in Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking & 4th Place in Student Congress
Vince Johnson - 3rd Place in Lincoln Douglas Debate
Kevin Cervenka - 9th Place in Lincoln Douglas Debate
Julia Bowen - 3rd Place in Informative Speaking
Tulsi Vaswani - 5th Place in Informative Speaking
Ian Cameron - Finalist in Student Congress
Desiree Campbell - 6th Place in Original Oratory
Semifinalists:
Extemporaneous Speaking
Will Gillenwaters
Dylan Cousins
Vince Johnson
Kevin Cervenka
Original Oratory
Olivia Schneider
Student Congress
Ian Cameron
Dramatic Interpretation
Julia Bowen
Prose
Catherine Porfirio
