UH-Spring reports

1st Place Sweepstakes

Extemp	Senior Prose	Religious Text
Olivia Cardenas - 1st	Maddie Muehlherr - 1st	Stephanie Oyolu - 3rd
Bowen Song - 2nd	Adele Lauzon - 5th
Lekha Sunder - 3rd	Maggie Hill - 6th
Larry Zhang - 4th
Alex Hoyal - 5th
Junior Prose	TV Commercial - English	TV Commercial Spanish
Maddie Fertak - 6th	Zibi Gugala - 1st	Mariel Alquisira-Morales - 2nd
	Athene DelVecchio - 4th	Miguel Covarrubias - 4th
	Nikki Goldin - 6th
Oratory	Duet Improv	Senior Impromptu Speaking
Lekha Sunder - 2nd	Tran & Hyun Han - 2nd	Sam Frank - 2nd
Rukmini Kalamangalam - 3rd	Lu & Oyolu - 3rd	Lekha Sunder - 4th
Abby Eastman - 5th	Tabibzadegan & Ho - 6th	Olivia Cardenas - 5th
Vega Shah - 6th		Robert Brown - 6th
Jeong Hyun Han - 7th
Junior Impromptu Speaking	Senior Poetry	Junior Poetry
Zuhayr Ali - 1st	Maddie Muehlherr - 1st	Sara Frank - 3rd
Georgy Thayill - 3rd
Joseph Dowdall - 4th
Joseph Donowho - 6th
Dramatic	Humorous	Declamation
Amy Yao - 3rd	Armon Tabibzadegan - 1st	Lekha Sunder - 2nd
Katherine Powers - 6th	Nikki Goldin - 2nd	Rukmini Kalamangalam - 3rd
	Larry Zhang - 5th	Abby Eastman - 4th
	Athene DelVecchio - 6th	Amy Yao - 6th
	Jeong Woo Han - 7th
Storytelling	Duet Acting	Congressional Debate
Alisa Lu - 1st	Nyquist & Sun - 1st	Olivia Cardenas - 1st
Stephanie Sonik - 3rd	Buks & Mattingly - 5th	Will Acheampong - 2nd
Athene DelVecchio - 5th		Miguel Covarrubias - 3rd
		Lekha Sunder - 4th
Group Improv		Curtis Yao - 5th
Nyquist, Sun & Goldin - 1st		Erin Sheena - 6th
Morris, Lauzon & Cardenas - 2nd		Marcos Coronado - Finalist
Shah, Oyolu, Lu, DelVecchio - 6th		Devon Watson - Finalist
Group Lip-Sync
Shah, Collymore, Dunn, Lu & Goldin - 6th
Lincoln-Douglas
Stephanie Oyolu - Quarterfinalist
Public Forum
Maddie Muehllher & Vishnu Narayana - Semifinalist Individual Sweepstakes Maddie Muehlherr - 3rd place

March/April 2013 LD Topic

Resolved: The United States is justified in intervening in the internal political processes of other countries to attempt to stop human rights abuses.

While I like the PF topic I'm not nearly as excited this one because variations of it have been used before in LD and PF.  U.S. intervention in troubled nations is nothing new.  The annoying thing is that THIS topic gets specific to impose the limitation that U.S. intervention is limited to the internal political processes.    

UH Fall Results

Extemporaneous Speaking	Senior Prose	Junior Prose
Vishnu Narayana 1st	Ali Potthast - 1st	Magdalena Hill - 1st
Erin Sheena 2nd	Ruth Ling - 2nd	Kaylie O'Connell - 2nd
Jasmine Khadem 3rd	Stephanie Oyolu - 3rd
Alex Hoyal 4th	Stephanie Sonik - 4th	Declamation
Will Acheampong 5th	Jia Zhu - 5th	Rukmini Kalamangalam - 1st
Robert Brown 6th	Nikki Goldin - 6th
Senior Poetry	Junior Poetry	Junior Impromptu Speaking
Elise Lanier - 1st	Sara Tin-U - 1st	Sam Frank - 1st
Amy Yao - 2nd	Adele Lauzon - 2nd	Adele Lauzon - 3rd
Kira Lam - 3rd	Katherine Nyquist - 4th	Viviana Collymore - 4th
Jia Zhu - 4th		Blake Modlin - 5th
Michelle Tang - 5th
Maddie Muhlherr - 6th	Senior Impromptu Speaking
	Olivia Cardenas - 1st	Dramatic
Oratory	Erin Sheena - 2nd	Ali Potthast - 2nd
Michelle Tang - 1st	Robert Brown - 3rd	Amy Yao - 3rd
Stacey Yard - 2nd	Nikki Goldin - 4th	Emma Bradley - 4th
Michael Hoyal - 5th	Jasmine Khadem - 5th
	Xena Toumajian - 6th
Dramatic Duo	Humorous	Storytelling
Lam & A.Yao - 1st	Cameron Biggart - 1st	Alisa Lu - 1st
Hinrich & Oentoro - 2nd	Nikki Goldin - 2nd	Maddie Muhlherr - 2nd
Nyquist & Sun - 3rd	Jeong Woo Han - 3rd	Stephanie Sonik - 3rd
Powers & Vogt - 4th	Max Nathan - 4th
	Jordan Hinrich - 5th
	Michelle Rodriguez - 6th
Public Forum Debate	Lincoln-Douglas Debate	Congress
M.Hoyal & Muhlherr - 1st	Justus Miles - Quarterfinals	Andrew Hollenberg - 1st
A. Hoyal & Narayana - 2nd	Travis Craig - Quarterfinals	Olivia Cardenas - 2nd
Collymore & Dunn - Semis		Erin Sheena - 3rd
Sam Frank & Nick Gonzalez - Quarters		Alan Ho - Finalist
Harit Pho & James Wei - Quarters		Armon Tabibzadegan - Finalist
		Curtis Yao - Finalist
		Jasmine Khadem - Finalist
		Leo Torres - Finalist
		Marcos Coronado - Finalist
		Matthew Fontenot - Finalist
		Miguel Covarrubias - Finalist

UH fall 2012 schedule

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

October 12 & 13

Friday, Oct. 12

                    2:30 p.m.               Students report to the debate room

      2:45 p.m.            Leave Lanier

                    3:45 - 5:45          Congress Session I

                    4:30 - 6:00          LD/PF Round I

                    5:45 - 6:30          Congress Dinner Break

                    6:00 - 7:30          Debate Round II

                    6:30 - 8:30          Congress Session II

                    7:00 - 7:30          LD/PF Dinner Break

                    7:30 - 9:00          LD/PF Round III

                      9:30 p.m.              Bus returns to Lanier

Saturday, Oct. 13

                    7:15 a.m.                Leave Lanier Middle School

                    8:00                     Extemporaneous Speaking Draw

                    8:30 - 9:45           Section A Preliminary Round

                    9:45 - 11:00         Section B Preliminary Round

                   11:00 - 12:15        Section C Preliminary Round

                   12:15 - 1:45          Section D Preliminary Round LD/PF Quarter-Finals, Congress Finals,

                                                 Reader's Theatre Finals

                    1:45                      Extemporaneous Speaking Draw

                    2:00 - 3:30           Section A & B Semi-Finals

                    3:30 - 5:00           Section C & D Semi-Finals, LD/PF  

                                                 Semi-Finals

                    5:00                      Extemporaneous Speaking Draw

                    5:15 - 6:45           Section A, B, & Remaining C Finals

                    6:45 - 8:15           Section D Finals, PF/LD Finals,

                    8:45                     Tournament Awards Assembly

                    10:00 p.m.             Bus returns to Lanier

2012-2013 Tournament Schedule

Here's our tentative schedule.  Debate veterans should know that things get moved around and so this isn't set in stone.  We are going to places that have a good track record in keeping tournaments, so hopefully this should stick.  I'm looking for a tournament for us in early January, possibly Klein Oak because that's where we went last year during that time.

EVENT                                    DATE                          LOCATION                            

Bellaire Novice Extravaganza       Sept. 14/15                  Bellaire High School*

Afterschool Debate Club Starts      Sept. 11                              Debate Room

Tournament                           Oct. 12/13                   Univ. of Houston

Tournament                           Oct 19/20                    Bellaire High School*

Tournament                           Nov. 10                       Klein High School

6^th Grade Tournament          Dec. 7/8                       Lanier Middle School

Tournament                           Dec. 15                        Oak Ridge High School

Tournament                           Jan. 25/26                   Lamar High School*

Tournament                           Feb. 2                          Hastings High School

Tournament                           Mar. 23                       Oak Ridge High School

Tournament                           April 12/13                 Univ. of Houston

Debate Banquet                     May 18                       Sheraton Galleria

* - No buses on Friday night or all day Saturday

Nationals are scheduled to be hosted in Birmingham, AL

June 2013

UH canceled

The UH tournament for Oct. 7 & 8 has been canceled.  They will not reschedule, but they will have their spring tournament in April.