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The 2019 National Tournament was one for the books! We were glad to welcome more than 6,000 high school competitors and nearly 1,000 middle school competitors to this year's tournament in Dallas.
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Check out the list of champions below, visit the livestream, presented by Victory Briefs to catch all of the final round performances from the tournament, and follow us on social media to recap what happened at #Nats19! You can even go backstage on Instagram, where we interviewed all of the finalists before and after their performances.
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| MAIN SPEECH EVENT CHAMPIONS
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LANNY D. AND B. J. NAEGELIN DRAMATIC INTERPRETATION
Jacob Foster (Comeaux High School, Lafayette, LA)
Coached by Jacob Simon
SANDRA SILVERS DUO INTERPRETATION
Kyle Ahern and Kevin Ahern (Dreyfoos School Of The Arts, West Palm Beach, FL)
Coached by Angela Anyzeski and Martha Warwick
HUMOROUS INTERPRETATION
Conor Sherry (Archbishop Mitty High School, San Jose, CA)
Coached by Karen Cruz and BJ Cruz
INFORMATIVE SPEAKING
Jordyn Allen (American Heritage Plantation High School, Plantation, FL)
Coached by Ryan Hubbard, Joele Denis, and Spencer Orlowski
A. C. ELEY INTERNATIONAL EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
Rene Otero (Hendrickson High School, Pflugerville, TX)
Coached by Kirsten Nash and Aly Mithani
JOE AND PAM WYCOFF ORIGINAL ORATORY
Haris Hosseini (The Harker School, San Jose, CA)
Coached by Scott Odekirk
PROGRAM ORAL INTERPRETATION
Ella Schnake (Raymore-Peculiar High School, Peculiar, MO)
Coached by Todd Schnake
CARMENDALE FERNANDES UNITED STATES EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
Jacqueline Wei (Plano West Senior High School, Plano, TX)
Coached by Robey Holland and Kattie Leito
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| MAIN DEBATE EVENT CHAMPIONS
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BIG QUESTIONS DEBATE
John Henry Stearns (Tuloso Midway High School, Corpus Christi, TX)
Coached by Tasha Kneis and Linda Esquivel
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE (HOUSE)
Hunter Brown (Spring Woods High School, Houston, TX)
Coached by Victoria Beard
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE (SENATE)
Rohit Jhawar (Kennedy High School, Richmond, CA)
Coached by Quest Sandel
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE
Grace Johannes (Liberty Senior High School, Liberty, MO)
Coached by Tim Baldwin
RICHARD B. SODIKOW POLICY DEBATE CO-CHAMPIONS
Jake Berry and Jimin Park
Raina Peter and Grace Kessler
(Washburn Rural High School, Topeka, KS)
Coached by Cynthia Burgett and Timothy Ellis
PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE
Sandeep Shankar and Daniel Cigale (Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA)
Coached by Tim Nikula
UNITED STATES WORLD SCHOOLS DEBATE
Kayla Arenschield (Solon High School, Solon, OH)
Cassandra Berlin (Hawken School, Gates Mills, OH)
Kennedy Hughes (Vermilion High School, Vermilion, OH)
David Lyons (Hawken School, Gates Mills, OH)
Liberty Oliver (Vermilion High School, Vermilion, OH)
Coached by Devon Snook
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| SUPPLEMENTAL EVENT CHAMPIONS
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BROTHER RENÉ STERNER COMMENTARY
Akshatha Narasimhan (Coral Academy Of Science Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV)
Coached by Amanda Sloan
EXTEMPORANEOUS DEBATE
Zoey Chacon (BASIS San Antonio Shavano, San Antonio, TX)
Coached by Alexander Decker
EXPOSITORY SPEAKING
Mckenna Daly (George Washington High School, Denver, CO)
Coached by Maryrose Kohan and Devin Sarno
POETRY READING
Josh Moton (Comeaux High School, Lafayette, LA)
Coached by Jacob Simon
PROSE READING
Rashon Leday (Comeaux High School, Lafayette, LA)
Coached by Jacob Simon
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| CONSOLATION EVENT CHAMPIONS
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IMPROMPTU
Jocelyn Marks (Theodore Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, IA)
Coached by Max Hardt
STORYTELLING
Ingamnwie Acha (Liberty North High School, Liberty, MO)
Coached by Kim Lenger
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