The upper school speech and debate squad competed successfully at Oak Park and Grain Valley over the last two weeks. The team earned multiple sweepstakes honors and is now ranked 10th in the country.

Oak Park Varsity Results:

• First Place - Overall Sweepstakes
• First Place - Debate Sweepstakes
• Second Place - Individual Events Sweepstakes 

Tournament Champion

Policy Debate

• Mae Dingley and Luke Ryan
• Cathy Martin and Mason Pluard
• Hudson Boyle and Jayden Ghuman
• Sean Hong and Ava Pluard 

United States Extemporaneous Speaking

• Hudson Boyle

Original Oratory

• Selina Tahirkheli

Tournament Runner-Up

Informative Speaking

• Nala Chandramohan

Public Forum Debate

• Zach Berg and Dermot O'Connor

Finalists

Lincoln Douglas Debate

• Elsa Wright (third place)

Public Forum Debate

• Anisha Priya and Anjali Priya (third place)
• Nura Henok and Ellie Kivett (fourth place)
• Nala Chandramohan and Eliza Wysong (fourth place)
• Muhsin Khalif and Ben Palmet (fourth place)

United States Extemporaneous Speaking

• Theo Casey (sixth place)

Original Oratory

• Jayden Ghuman (fifth place)

Congress

• Cathy Martin (fourth place)

Program of Oral Interpretation

• Selina Tahirkheli (third place)

Informative Speaking

• Catherine Zhao - third place
• Ingrid Li - fourth place
• Anisha Priya - sixth place

Semifinalists

United States Extemporaneous Speaking

• Atticus Brown

Original Oratory

• Anjali Priya
• Eliza Wysong

Congress

• Clark Castro
• Nura Henok
• Ellie Lin
• Mason Pluard

Grain Valley Varsity/NIETOC Results

• Second Place - Overall Sweepstakes
• First Place - Debate Sweepstakes
• Second Place - Individual Events Sweepstakes

Tournament Champion
Public Forum Debate

• Maya Burton and Addison Funk 
• Graham Henry and Ben Wolf 
• Ellesmere Torrance and Eliza Wysong
• Nura Henok and Ellie Kivett  

Congress

• Addison Funk

Tournament Runner-Up
Informative Speaking

• Graham Henry (earned his third National Individual Events Tournament of Champions NIETOC bid)

Finalist
Policy Debate

• Hudson Boyle, Jayden Ghuman, Muad Khalif, Jimmy O'Connell (third place)
• Kerav Agarwal, Mahad Amin, Mae Dingley, Cathy Martin, Mason Pluard, Luke Ryan (fourth place)

Lincoln Douglas Debate

• Johnny Honnold (third place)

United States Extemporaneous Speaking

• Maya Burton (third place and earned third NIETOC bid)

International Extemporaneous Speaking

• Wazi Asjad (second place and received his second NIETOC and qualifying bid)
• Phillip Park (third place and garnered his third NIETOC bid)
• Zach Berg (fifth place)

Congress

• Kiki Wood (sixth place)

Semifinalist

United States Extemporaneous Speaking

• Johnny Honnold

International Extemporaneous Speaking

• Dermot O'Connor

Oratory

• Selina Tahirkheli
• Jayden Ghuman

Congress

• Ellie Lin
• Jimmy O'Connell
• Ava Pluard