The upper school speech and debate squad ended 2020 with two solid weekends at Truman/William Chrisman and Raytown/Raytown South virtual Tournaments. Students compete either through Zoom meetings or submit a video of their speeches.

Raytown/Raytown South

• Third Overall - Novice Sweepstakes
• Second Overall - Individual Event Novice Sweepstakes 

Tournament Champion

• Tristan Wells - Lincoln Douglas (Varsity)
• Sophia Ramos - Dramatic Interpretation (Novice)
• Elan Jiang - Informative Speaking (Novice)
• Sebastien de Pierre - United States Extemporaneous Speaking (Novice)

Tournament Runner Up

• Nura Henok - Informative Speaking (Novice)

Finalists

• Informative Speaking - Milly Bertsch (Novice third place)
• International Extemporaneous Speaking - Tristan Wells (Varsity fourth place)

Semifinalists

• Humorous Interpretation - Jemel Johnson (Novice)
• Informative Speaking - Zack Aarons (Novice), Eric Chen (Varsity)
• Oratory - Cathy Martin (Novice)
• Prose/Poetry - Brigid Pattison (Novice)
• U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking - Quinn FitzGerald (Novice)
   

Truman Varsity/NIETOC Tournament

Tournament Runner-Up

• Wynn Johnson - Informative Speaking (NIETOC bid and qualifier)

William Chrisman Novice

• First Place - Overall Sweepstakes
• First Place - Individual Event Sweepstakes
• First Place - Debate Sweepstakes

Tournament Champion

• Nura Henok - Informative Speaking

Tournament Runner Up

• Milly Bertsch - Informative Speaking
• Jimmy O’Connell - United States Extemporaneous Speaking

Finalists

Policy Debate

• Mae Dingley and Reece Nutter (fourth place-tie)
• Zach Berg and Caitlyn Huang (fourth place-tie)

Public Forum Debate

• Zayn Ahmed and Gretel Robbins (fourth place-tie)
• Zack Aarons and Max Doering-Powell (fourth place-tie)

Humorous Interpretation

• Mae Dingley (fifth place)

International Extemporaneous Speaking

• Zach Berg (third palace)
• Reece Nutter (fifth place)

Oratory

• Josie Miller (fourth place)

Poetry

• Maeve Marien-McManus (third place)
• Brigid Pattison (fourth place)

Semifinalists

• Sophia Ramos - Dramatic Interpretation
• Jemel Johnson-Humorous Interpretation
• Caitlyn Huang - Informative Speaking
• Ellie Kivett - Poetry
• Gretel Robbins - Prose
• Quinn FitzGerald - U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking
• Sebastien de Pierre - U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking