Hawk Tawk

It's always great to host a tournament. Even though we come early to set up, we still get to sleep later than when we travel. My assistant coach/daughter, Sara, and I both logged over 16,000 steps as we hosted 15 schools, over 100 students, and 50 coaches and judges. As always, people love being at Chiawana. Even with team members out with illness, Chiawana had a great tournament, picking up all three team awards: Speech Sweepstakes, Debate Sweepstakes,  and Large Team Sweepstakes. Individual finishes are as follows: Big Questions Debate: Saige Johnson and Amy Walker, 2nd Novice Congressional Debate: Briana Castro, 1st; Victor Soriano, 3rd, Top Presiding Officer Open Congressional Debate: Linh Truong, 1st Novice Dramatic Interpretation: Briana Castro, 1st (perfect score) Novice Editorial Commentary: Amy Walker, 1st (perfect score); Alison Pettey, 3rd Novice Informative Speaking: Amy Walker, 1st Novice Humorous Interpretation: Amy Walker and Alison Pettey, unbrea

Speech and debate took ten students to Ephrata High School on November 17. Ten competitors put us just over the line into the “Large Team” category, where we took second, as well as a second place finish in speech events. Individual finishes: Audra Totten, 1st, Open Humorous Interpretation Linh Truong, 2nd Open Informative Speaking, 1sp Open Program Oral Interpretation, 1st Open Congressional Debate Conner Mahaffey, 1st Novice Congress Ali Pettey, 2nd Novice Congress, 2nd Novice Tall Tales, 1st Novice Editorial Commentary Victor Soriano Top Presiding Officer, Novice Congressional Debate Amy Walker 3rd Novice Editorial Commentary, 1st Novice Informative Speaking, 1st Novice Humorous Interpretation.