While some of the Select Varsity kids were GMU, 11 of our debaters had a HUGE tournament with our friends up on Okoboji. There were teams from Minnesota and South Dakota in addition to Iowa. The results were:
Varsity LD
2nd--Emily Schott
6th--Taylor Yocom
Novice Public Forum
4th--Samantha Gerleman and Rachel Bandstra
Varsity Policy
2nd--Harrison Hayward and Nick Swingle
Varsity Public Forum
Michael Flannery and Sam Roeder--2nd Place
Lillian Chesser and Tess Yocum--Quarterfinalist
Fun Forum(combination Varsity/Novice PF, Varsity/Novice Policy and LD kids all doing PF for three rounds on Friday night)
Posting 3-1 records were Lillian Chesser/Tess Yocum and Taylor Yocum/Emily Schott.
Posting 2-2 records were Nick Swingle/Harrison Hayward and Samantha Gerleman/Rachel Bandstra
Varsity Extemp
1st--Michael Flannery (Straight 1s)
3rd--Sam Roeder
Novice Prose Poetry
1st--Aubrey Davidson
DI
3rd--Aubrey Davidson
All of these results ended up culminating in a high likelihood that Roosevelt walked away with its first tournament sweepstakes award for a tournament in a long time (see the team historian aka Coach Harry for exact date.... CONGRATS TO THESE FOLKS!!
Coach Nate
