For the second year in a row, George Washington High School's Speech and Debate team secured the CHSAA Sweepstakes State Championship Title. The Patriots' team won the sweepstakes titles in both speech and debate, as well as the overall sweepstakes. East High School placed third in the overall sweepstakes and second in the speech sweepstakes. Denver School of the Arts celebrated a first-place win for one of the competitions.
See all of DPS’ first-place individual and duo competition winners below:
Duo Interpretation: Denver East, Elias Goss and Elijah Goss
Interpretation of Humor: GWHS, Gabriela Fox
Informative Speaking: GWHS, Lindsay Sieja
International Extemporaneous Speaking: Denver East, Fiona Macdonald
Original Oratory: GWHS, Ivan Levitt
National Extemporaneous Speaking: Denver East, Rae Tatel
Policy Debate: GWHS – Close-out, Caroline Mabey and Flynn Good; Greta Batchelor and Maddie Hosking
Public Forum Debate: DSA, Hayden Ferrandino and Reina Kushihashi
There were many runner-ups from DPS schools; click here to see the final championship rankings. The National Speech and Debate tournament will take place June 16-21 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Good luck to the 41 DPS students who qualified for the National tournament!
DSA -- Mark Thompson (Public Forum)
DSA -- Camilo Ayadi (Public Forum)
DSA -- Maya Goldberg (Original Oratory)
GWHS -- Ivan Levitt (Original Oratory)
GWHS -- Greta Batchelor (Policy Debate)
GWHS -- Madeline Hosking (Policy Debate)
GWHS -- Caroline Mabey (Policy Debate)
GWHS -- Cade Ramirez (Policy Debate)
GWHS -- Anna-Maria Owen (Drama)
GWHS -- Sarita Patel (Duo)
GWHS -- Maristella Valore-Caplan (Duo)
GWHS -- Mateo Pacheco (Duo)
GWHS -- Adin Kobrin-Brody (Duo)
GWHS -- Gabriela Fox (Humor)
GWHS -- Eva Perak (Humor)
GWHS -- Lindsay Sieja (Informative)
GWHS -- Matthew Abrams (International Extemporaneous Speaking)
GWHS -- Alison Pellet (Program of Oral Interpretation)
GWHS -- Sachin Hansen (Congressional Debate)
GWHS -- Liliana Feeny (Public Forum Debate)
GWHS -- Sabrina Fox (Public Forum Debate)
GWHS -- Matthew Chufong-Sprague (Lincoln Douglas Debate)
GWHS -- Halle Guber (World School Debate)
GWHS -- Anna Seaman (World School Debate)
GWHS -- Tatum Lezotte (World School Debate)
GWHS -- Logan Genova (US Extemporaneous Speaking)
GWHS -- Diego Holguin (Congressional Debate)
GWHS -- Adam Wang (World School Debate)
GWHS -- John Sheehan (World School Debate)
GWHS -- Yoale Amanuel (Congressional Debate)
GWHS -- Sam Holland (World School Debate)
EHS -- Fiona Macdonald (International Extemporaneous Speaking)
EHS -- Nathan Kao (Original Oratory)
EHS -- Laelani Stuart (Program of Oral Interpretation)
EHS -- Toby Penner (HSE)
EHS -- Elias Goss (Duo)
EHS -- Elijah Goss (Duo)
EHS -- Melina Collier (Public Forum)
EHS -- Garrett Mugford (Public Forum)
EHS -- Rae Tatel (National Extemporaneous Speaking)