88th annual ohio high school speech league | State tournament results

Here are the results from the 2015 Ohio High School Speech League State Tournament hosted at Canfield and Boardman high schools Friday and Saturday.

Team Sweepstakes

State champion: Wooster (53 Points)

2nd place: Gilmour Academy (51 Points)

3rd place: Canfield (44 Points)

4th place: University School (42 Points)

5th place: Massillon Perry (40 Points)

6th place: Cardinal-Mooney (39 Points)

7th place: Hawken School (38 Points)

8th place: Solon (34 Points)

9th place (tie): North Canton Hoover and Columbiana (33 Points)

2-Person Policy Debate

State champion: from Wooster, Gaelan Gatz and Ben Snoddy.

2nd place: from Oakwood, Grady Fultz and Lauren Pepper.

Semifinalists: From Perry, Christian Lisik and Jenna Shinsky and Shannon Howley and Alexis Hendershot, also from Perry.

Quarterfinalists: From Hawken School, Kevin Yu and Matt Zhu; from Wooster, Jared Cassarly and Lee Morris; and from Beavercreek, Andrew Thompson and Abby Culpepper.

Dramatic Interpretation

State champion: from Gilmour Academy, Alexis Canty.

2nd place: from Cardinal-Mooney, Jennifer Rondinelli.

3rd place: from Canton McKinley, Maria Mejia.

4th place: from Hoover, Toni Dipietro.

5th place: from Niles McKinley, Amber Nestor.

6th place: from Notre Dame Academy, Carra Gilson.

7th place: from Canfield, Jack Cross

Duo Interpretation

State champion: from Columbiana, Brad Keylor and Zach Frenger.

2nd place: from Gilmour Academy, Sean Kelley and Christian Borkey.

3rd place: from Columbiana, Briana Davis and Halee Martin.

4th place: from Centerville, Bobby Hughes and Brian Schutter.

5th place: from Canfield, Madison Deiley and Helen Neff.

6th place: from Wauseon, Clarissa Johnson and Breanna Demaline.

Expository Speaking

State champion: from Olentangy Liberty, Anthony English.

2nd place: from Canfield, Maddy Urig.

3rd place: from Vermilion, Rebecca Terschak.

4th place: from GlenOak, Nabila Utami.

5th place: from Stow, Noah Barr.

6th place: from Mason, Mihir Parshionikar.

7th place: from Highland, Chris Pace.

Humorous Interpretation

State champion: from Cardinal-Mooney, Johnny D’Andrea.

2nd place: from Stow, Lane Hedler.

3rd place: from Sylvania Southview, Sara Young.

4th place: from Stow, Nathaniel Halasz.

5th place: from Tusky Valley HS, Aric Bird.

6th place: from Centerville, Zaid Karabatak.

International Extemporaneous Speaking

State champion: from Wauseon, Brenden Kost.

2nd place: from Jackson H.S., Priya Podugu.

3rd place: from Upper Arlington, Yijia Liang.

4th place: from Ursuline, Allison Christopher.

5th place: from Canfield, Alec Kan.

6th place: from Solon, Vinay Bodapati.

7th place: from Solon, Bharath Katragadda.

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

State champion:, from Solon, Matthew Besman .

2nd place: from University School, Chandler Koon.

Semifinalists: from Hawken School, Nicole Kastelic and Jack Weisman.

Quarterfinalists: from Highland, Rachel Boedicker; from Laurel School, Hannah Lauster; from Notre Dame Academy, Gabrielle Hymel; from Cardinal-Mooney, Andrew Brockway.

Oratorical Interpretation

State champion: from Notre Dame Academy, Maddy Vesoulis.

2nd place: from Mentor, Russell Catania.

3rd place: from Solon, Jennifer Rosenberg.

4th place: from South Range, Madi Bokros.

5th place: from Gilmour Academy, Andrea Doe.

6th place: from Wooster, Alli Wigham.

Original Oratory

State champion: from Glen-Oak, Sarah Yannone.

2nd place: from CVCA, Al Oliver.

3rd place: from Hoover, Nathan Miller.

4th place: from Gilmour Academy, Nupur Goel.

5th place: from Notre Dame Academy, Sarah Gardener.

6th place: from Olmsted Falls, Kat Karolak.

Prose/Poetry Reading

State champion: from Perry, Tessa Polen.

2nd place: from Hoover, Elena Lewis.

3rd place: from Perrysburg, Emily Cottle.

4th place: from Gilmour Academy, Nicholas Abdallah.

5th place: from Austintown-Fitch, Rachael Wyant.

6th place: from Vermilion, Morgan Walker.

7th place: from Wadsworth, Dan Howard.

Public Forum Debate

State champion: from University School, Aidan Brandt and Armin Ameri.

2nd place: from Canfield, Stephen Gant and Maleck Saleh.

Semifinalists: From University School, Will Taber and Chris Raguz and John Mino and Geoff Schoonmaker.

Quarterfinalists: from Wooster, Patrick Carmel and Eric Belcik; from Chagrin Falls, Emily King and Victoria Haber; from Sylvania Southview, Michael Burchfield and Shaleen Goel; and from University School, Will Frankel and Ben Wessorick.

Student Congress

State champion: from Wooster, Taylor Bennington.

2nd place: from Gilmour Academy, Sophia Zoupanc.

3rd place: from Hawken School, Phillip Hedayatnia.

4th place: from Sylvania Southview, Eric Zhu.

5th place: from Hoover, Zack Uysal.

6th place: from Hawken School, Larry Fulton.

United States Extemporaneous Speaking

State champion: from Laurel School, Berthy Feng.

2nd place: from Niles McKinley, Brianna Ledsome.

3rd place: from Jackson H.S., Jad Hamdan.

4th place: from Cardinal-Mooney, Michael Eggiman.

5th place: from Columbiana, Bruce Wiggins.

6th place: from Wadsworth, Jack Bruno.

Source: Jeremy Hamilton, director, Canfield Speech & Debate Team