For the fourth time in five years, the speech and debate team, the Talking Rams, brought home the Conference Championship trophy this weekend! With the exception of three seasons, Ladue has held the trophy since 1994! The team took 7th place in Interpretation Events, 1st in Congressional Debate, 1st in Public Speaking Events and 1st in Debate.
Several students also placed in the top five of their events, and the team has two conference champions! Please congratulate the students listed below:
DUO INTERPRETATION
Gabbie Burton and Noah DiAntonio – 3rd place
PROSE READING
Kyrollos Shenouda – 5th place
ORIGINAL ORATORY
Simi Falako – 2nd place
DOMESTIC EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
Patrick Naughton – 1st place and Conference Champion (t)
Gabbie Burton – 3rd place
Simi Falako – 5th place
FOREIGN EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
Rasika Sant – 2nd place
Aramis Rickey – 4th place
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE
Kieran Mulligan – 3rd place (t)
Bobby Zitzmann – 3rd place (t)
Albert Liu – 5th place (t)
Hanlu Jin – 5th place (t)
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE
Simi Falako – 1st place and Conference Champion
Rasika Sant – 4th place (t)
POLICY DEBATE
Patrick Naughton and Aramis Rickey – 2nd place
Noah DiAntonio and Maya Mutic – 4th place
PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE
Jacob Granick and Kieran Mulligan – 3rd place (t)
The team also competed in the third, and final, conference tournament of the year this past weekend at Ritenour High School. The team would like to thank Eric Hahn for coming out to judge the first round of debate on Friday!
Congratulations to the following students on their tournament successes:
DOMESTIC EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
Patrick Naughton – 1st place
Gabbie Burton – 4th place
Simi Falako – 6th place
FOREIGN EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
Rasika Sant – 2nd place
Maya Mutic – 3rd place
Aramis Rickey – 6th place
ORIGINAL ORATORY
Simi Falako – 3rd place
RADIO SPEAKING
Jackie Wong – 5th place
HUMOROUS INTERPRETATION
Ope Falako – 4th place
DUO INTERPRETATION
Maya Mutic and Patrick Naughton – 2nd place
Gabbie Burton and Noah DiAntonio – 3rd place
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE
Hanlu Jin – 2nd place and Permanent Presiding Officer
Kieran Mulligan – 4th place
Albert Liu – Super Session
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE
Simi Falako – Semifinalist
Audrey Wang – Semifinalist
POLICY DEBATE
Noah DiAntonio and Maya Mutic – 1st place
Patrick Naughton and Aramis Rickey – 2nd place
PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE
Kieran Mulligan and Rasika Sant – Semifinalists