LO traveled to Pacific University to compete in the Hap Hingston Invitational. Unfortunately, the team did not place overall in sweepstakes (a number of seniors were unable to attend the tournament because of other conflicts). That doesn’t mean, however, that LO didn’t win a number of individual awards, including:

Debate

Second Varsity Policy – Andrew Samuelson and Sanders Li
Semifinalists Varsity Parliamentary – Shannon Fender and Chris Cave
Semifinalists Varsity Parliamentary – Ammas Tanveer and Max Groznik

Individual Events

First Varsity Poetry – Hannah Lewman
Third Varsity Oratory – Zohar Hoter
Third Varsity Radio – Ammas Tanveer
Fourth Varsity Oratory – Jamie Zimmerman
Fifth Varsity Dramatic Interp – Hannah Lewman
Fifth Varsity Prose – Hannah Lewman
Fifth Varsity Poetry – Meghana Mysore
Finalist Varsity Poetry – Anna Kulawiec
Semifinalist Varsity Impromptu – Max Groznik
Semifinalist Varsity Impromptu – Ammas Tanveer

Speaking Awards

First Varsity Policy – Andrew Samuelson
Third Varsity Parliamentary – Austin Weng

Individual Sweepstakes 3rd Place – Hannah Lewman (for excellence in multiple individual events)

Of Special Note: This was (senior) Chris Cave’s first tournament, as he joined to fill in for one of the seniors who could not attend.

As a team, LO had a terrific showing, taking second place overall with exactly 100 sweepstakes points (the first place team had 102, and the third place team had 66). This was thanks to:

Debate

Second Varsity Parliamentary Debate – Zohar Hoter and Austin Weng
Second Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate – Dan Tudorica
Undefeated (3-0) Varsity Parliamentary Debate: Shannon Fender and Joel Kwartler
Undefeated (3-0) Varsity Parliamentary Debate: Ammas Tanveer and Max Groznik

Individual Events:

First Varsity Poetry – Hannah Lewman
First Varsity After Dinner Speaking – Joel Kwartler
First Varsity Impromptu Speaking – Ammas Tanveer
Second Varsity Poetry – Anna Kulawiec
Second Varsity Impromptu Speaking – Chris Beltrone
Third Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking – Ammas Tanveer
Third Varsity Poetry – Meghana Mysore
Third Varsity Radio – Bill Feng
Fourth Varsity Original Oratory – Sarah Kwartler
Fourth Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking – Zohar Hoter
Fourth Varsity Storytelling – Hannah Lewman
Sixth Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking – Austin Weng

Speaking Awards:

Second Varsity Parliamentary – Zohar Hoter
First Novice Public Forum – Sarah Kwartler
Second Novice Public Forum – Jackson Dyal

Of Special Note: Lake Oswego closed out varsity poetry with the 1, 2, and 3 spots. We also had 3 of the 7 extemp finalists. In Parli, 3 LO teams were amongst the 5 “undefeated in prelims” teams, of which one was the first seed and the other two tied for third seed. Both partners of the Kwartler/Dyal novice public forum team were the top speakers in novice public forum debate.

LOHS swept the tournament with a first place sweepstakes placing! FG allowed one to compete in either debate or up to six IE events. To illustrate this, here are the results by person:

IE results:

Ammas Tanveer
1st Place Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking
2nd Place IE individual sweepstakes award
2nd Place Varsity Humorous Interpretation
4th Place Varsity Impromptu Speaking
5th Place Varsity Radio Speaking

Hannah Lewman
1st Place Varsity Dramatic Interpretation
2nd Place Varsity Prose
3rd Place Varsity Poetry

Zohar Hoter
2nd Place Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking
2nd Place Varsity Original Oratory
3rd Place Varsity Humorous Interpretation

Sarah Kwartler
1st Place Novice Impromptu Speaking
4th Place Varsity Original Oratory

Melissa Liu
3rd Place Varsity Radio

Debate Results:

Robert Xu and Andrew Samuelson
1st Place Parliamentary Debate (2nd seed)
2nd Place Varsity Parliamentary Speaker – Robert Xu (113 points)

Shannon Fender and Joel Kwartler
3rd Place Varsity Parliamentary Debate (1st seed & semifinalists)
1st Place Varsity Parliamentary Speaker – Joel Kwartler (117 points)
5th Place Varsity Parliamentary Speaker – Shannon Fender (112 points)

Max Groznik
4th Place Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate (3rd seed & semifinalist)
4th Place Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Speaker (109 points)

Min Park
2nd Place Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate (4th seed)

Jackson Dyal
1st Place Novice Public Forum Speaker (102 points)

LOHS took fourth place overall. This was thanks to:

• First Place Varsity Impromptu – Max Groznik
• Second Place Varsity Public Forum Debate – Robert Xu and Sanders Li
• Second Place Varsity Parliamentary Debate – Ammas Tanveer and Max Groznik
• Second Place Varsity Policy Debate – Andrew Samuelson and Daniel Hong
• Second Place Varsity After Dinner Speaking – Joel Kwartler
• Second Place Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking – Austin Weng
• Third Place Varsity Parliamentary Debate – Joel Kwartler and Shannon Fender
• Fifth Place Varsity Oratory – Zohar Hoter
• Sixth Place Varsity Radio – Melissa Liu
• Seventh Place Varsity Prose – Meghana Mysore
• Fourth Place Novice Oratory – Sarah Kwartler

Speaker Awards:

• First Public Forum Debate – Robert Xu
• First Policy Debate – Andrew Samuelson
• Second Parliamentary Debate – Chris Beltrone
• Third Parliamentary Debate – Joel Kwartler

Of particular note: Max Groznik took first place in a large field of 68 impromptu competitors. Also, Shannon and Joel went 3-0 in parli prelims and missed breaking by one point (on the strength of opponent, which split the speaker points tie between Shannon/Joel and Max/Ammas).