2008-2009 Forensics Season Results
November 1 Boone/Calloway Swing
Reigning state speech teamchampions Danville High School placed first and third at two speech tournaments held in Florence on Saturday, November 1st. Danville placed first intheBoone half of the Boone/Calloway "I Know What You Did Last Speech Tournament" Swing, besting 2nd place Grant County by fifteen points. Louisville Assumption was third, followed by Ryle, Highlands, and Calloway County in the top six. At the Calloway half of the contest, Danville placed third behind Boone County and Grant County with Ryle, Assumption, and Highlands rounding out the top six. Beechwood High placed first in the small schools division of both contests.
The Danville team brought home thirty-four individual awards from the contests. Danville will next compete at Western Kentucky University on November 15. Full results from the November 1 contests are listed here.
BROADCASTING: Corinne Baskin, 1st Boone; Jane Morrison, 2nd Boone, 7th Calloway; Joe Will, 6th Boone.
DECLAMATION: Leila Samhat, 5th Calloway; Tanner Burks, 6th Calloway; Madeline Salinas, 6th Boone; Jane Morrison, 7th Boone and Calloway.
DRAMATIC INTERPRETATION: Kyle Snapp, 2nd Boone; Katie Ward, 4th Boone; Evan Avery, 5th Boone; Olivia Allen, 6th Boone.
DUO INTERPRETATION: Candace Mullins/Kyle Snapp, 3rd Boone, 4th Calloway.
EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING: Jamie Mohan, 1st Boone, 2nd Calloway.
IMPROMPTU SPEAKING: Jamie Mohan, 1st Boone; Jared Rehberg, 3rd Calloway; Kaitlin Snapp, 4th Boone.
IMPROVISATIONAL DUO: Kyle Snapp/Joe Will, 3rd Boone, 1st Calloway.
ORIGINAL ORATORY: McKay Nelson, 2nd Boone; Candace Mullins, 5th Boone.
POETRY: Maggie Tirey, 2nd Boone; Corinne Baskin, 3rd Calloway; Olivia Allen, 5th Calloway; Evan Avery, 7th Boone.
PROSE: Courtney Wood, 7th Boone, 4th Calloway; McKay Nelson, 7th Calloway.
STORYTELLING: Aubrey Mojesky, 5th Boone.
STUDENT CONGRESS: Jared Rehberg, 1st Boone; Cole Steber, 5th Boone.
The Danville High School forensics team won two tournaments held at Western Kentucky University on November 15. Sixteen teams from three states competed in the Big Red Invitational and the WKU Forensics Alumni meet. Danville was followed by Huntington (WV), Graves County, Paducah Tilghman, and North Oldham in the Big Red and by Huntington, Graves County, Calloway County, and North Oldham in the Alumni.
DHS results at the WKU Big Red (BR) and Alumni (AL):
Broadcasting: Jane Morrison, 1st (BR & AL); Katie Ward, 2nd (AL); Leila Samhat, 4th (AL); Kellie McMurry, 5th (BR).
Declamation: Jane Morrison, 1st (BR) and 4th (AL); Leila Samhat, 6th (BR).
Dramatic Interpretation: Courtney Wood, 1st (BR); Katie Ward, 1st (AL); Olivia Allen, 4th (BR) and 5th (AL); Evan Avery, 5th (BR) and 6th (AL).
Duo Interpretation: Candace Mullins and Kyle Snapp, 1st (BR); Tanner Burks and Khaki Lacy, 4th (AL).
Extemporaneous Speaking: Jamie Mohan, 1st (BR & AL); Rhianna Miles, 2nd (BR) and 3rd (AL); Jared Rehberg, 5th (BR) and 2nd (AL); Jono Beto, 6th (BR).
Humorous Interpretation: Kyle Snapp, 1st (BR).
Impromptu Speaking: Jamie Mohan, 2nd (BR and AL); Jared Rehberg, 3rd (BR).
Original Oratory: Rhianna Miles, 2nd (BR); Lydia Pope, 3rd (BR) and 6th (AL); McKay Nelson, 2nd (AL).
Poetry Interpretation: Evan Avery, 3rd (BR); Maggie Tirey, 5th (BR) and 3rd (AL); Olivia Allen, 2nd (AL).
Prose Interpretation: McKay Nelson, 1st (BR); Aubrey Mojesky, 4th (BR); Courtney Wood, 2nd (AL); Caitlyn DeAraujo, 3rd (AL).
Storytelling: Aubrey Mojesky, 4th (BR); Nate Johnson, 1st (AL); Ali Gautier, 3rd (AL).
The Danville High School forensics team won awards at three December speech tournaments in Kentucky and Virginia.
Danville placed second at the Western Kentucky University Hilltopper in Bowling Green and second at the Grant County Home of the Braves in Dry Ridge.
Boone County won both events with Louisville Assumption third at Grant and Graves County third at WKU.
Additionally, five students from DHS competed at the George Mason University Patriot Games in Fairfax, Va., bringing home four awards in a field of 72 schools from 26 states.
The students also toured the Capitol courtesy of Congressman Ben Chandler's office while in the D.C. area.
DHS will next compete at the Henry Clay Speak of the Devil on Jan. 10.
Individual awards from each tournament are listed below.
Grant County awards: Jamie Mohan, first Congress and impromptu, and third extemporaneous; Jared Rehberg, second Congress and extemporaneous and third Impromptu; Cole Steber, third Congress; Madeline Salinas: sixth declamation; Olivia Allen, first dramatic interpretation and fourth poetry; Katie Ward, sixth dramatic interpretation; Drew Lane, sixth humorous interpretation; Lydia Pope, third oratory; and Maggie Tirey, second poetry.
George Mason awards: Kyle Snapp and Candace Mullins, semifinals duo interpretation; Courtney Wood, semifinals dramatic interpretation and quarterfinals prose; and Kyle Snapp, quarterfinals prose.
WKU awards: Jane Morrison, first broadcasting; Katie Ward, fourth broadcasting; Ethan Robinson, fifth broadcasting; Tanner Burks, sixth declamation; Courtney Wood, first dramatic interpretation; Khaki Lacy and Tanner Burks, second duo interpretation; Rhianna Miles: second original oratory; Maggie Tirey, second poetry; Cole Steber, sixth poetry; Evan Avery, fourth prose; and Aubrey Mojesky, sixth storytelling.
DHS forensics team places second at Speak of the Devil
The Danville High School forensics team placed second Jan. 10 in a field of 25 teams at the largest speech tournament yet held in Kentucky this year, the Henry Clay Speak of the Devil.Nine students came home with trophies from the contest; Danville took first in four of the 12 events.Rowan County won the meet in its first matchup with Danville team-on-team since the Kentucky Educational Speech and Drama Association last year, when Danville took the KESDA title for the first time in the tournament's history. Rowan had won the prior 19 years.At the Speak of the Devil, Rowan bested Danville 216 to 176, followed by Grant County with 114, Highlands with 111, and Knott Central, Paducah Tilghman, Lafayette, Dunbar, East Jessamine and North Oldham completing the top 10.
DHS award winners were Maggie Tirey, first in poetry; Jared Rehberg, first in extemporaneous speaking; Jamie Mohan, first in impromptu speaking; Courtney Wood, first in dramatic interpretation; Jane Morrison, second in broadcasting; Leila Samhat, fourth in declamation; McKay Nelson, sixth in original oratory; Olivia Allen, fifth in dramatic interpretation; and Candace Mullins, sixth in poetry.
Danville High School took honors at two speech tournaments over the weekend of January 24. In Atlanta, twelve DHS students competed at Emory University’s Barkley Forum, a national invitation-only contest featuring students from around the country. Five Danville students broke into the awards rounds: Jared Rehberg, semifinals in Student Congress; McKay Nelson, octofinals in Original Oratory; Kyle Snapp, octofinals in Dramatic Interpretation; Jamie Mohan and Cole Steber, double octofinals in Public Forum Debate. Danville High School was also awarded with its membership chair, a permanent membership in the Barkley Forum, at the awards ceremony. The remainder of Danville’s team competed at the Assumption Rocket Invitational in Louisville. The team placed sixth overall with awards for Corinne Baskin (fifth Poetry, sixth Original Oratory), Ethan Robinson (sixth Dramatic Interpretation), and the team of Caitlyn DeAraujo and Joe Will (sixth Improvisational Duo).
Danville 2nd at KHSSL Regional
Danville High placed 2nd to Lexington Lafayette at the Bluegrass Regional Speech tournament held at Lafayette on Saturday. East Jessamine placed 3rd in the contest of the high schools in the 24-county Bluegrass Region. Lafayette bested Danville 88 to 85 against a Danville squad missing 8 of its 36 entries who had been excused for various events and illness(entries already qualified to the state tournament prior to the Regionals). Danville fields the largest slate of entries for the state tournament of any high school in the state with 35 entries qualified to compete in Bowling Green March 20 and 21.
New to the Regional tournament this year was the naming of a Regional champion and runner-up in each speech event. Danville won Championships in three events with a runner up in one more: Ethan Robinson, Declamation champion; Courtney Wood, Dramatic Interpretation champion; Drew Lane, Humorous Interpretation runner-up; Ali Gautier and Wright Williams, Improv Duo champions.
DANVILLE 3RD AT KESDA
Danville High School placedthird at thetwenty-first annual Kentucky Educational Speech and Drama Association State Speech Tournament held in Lexington February 19-21. Four Danville High students won KESDA titles in their respective categories: Courtney Wood in Dramatic Interpretation, the Duo Interpretation team of Candace Mullins and Kyle Snapp, and Maggie Tirey in Poetry.
Rowan County reclaimed the KESDA title after losing it to Danville last year, placing first with a score of 615 followed by Boone County with 500 and Danville with 439. Grant County, East Jessamine, Calloway County, Kentucky Country Day, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Hazard, and Harrison County rounded out the top ten of the twenty-two participating schools, including Boyle County High School.
Twenty-three Danville High students won honors at the contest. The team will next compete at the Kentucky District tournament of the Catholic Forensic League, the tryouts for the National tournament held Memorial Day weekend in Albany, New York. DHS has won the Kentuckycontest for the last twelve years.
Danville award winners at KESDA:
Broadcasting:Corinne Baskin, quarterfinals; Jane Morrison, semifinals; Katie Ward, semifinals; Joe Will, quarterfinals.
Declamation: Jane Morrison, fifth; Lydia Pope, semifinals; Madeline Salinas, sixth.
Dramatic Interpretation: Olivia Allen, semifinals; Kyle Snapp, third; Courtney Wood, champion.
Duo Interpretation: Dylan Crow/Wright Williams, semifinals; Candace Mullins/Kyle Snapp, champions; Diamond Pace/Kaitlin Snapp, Outstanding Novice award.
Extemporaneous Speaking: Jamie Mohan, second; Jared Rehberg, sixth.
Group Interpretation: Corinne Baskin/Candace Mullins/McKay Nelson/Lydia Pope/Maggie Tirey, sixth place.
Impromptu Speaking: McKay Nelson, semifinals; Jared Rehberg, second.
Improvisational Duo: Tanner Burks/Jamie Mohan, quarterfinals; Dylan Crow/Nate Johnson, fifth place; Karl Hempel/Kaitlin Snapp, quarterfinals.
Informative Speaking: Kaitlin Snapp, Outstanding Novice.
Persuasive Speaking: Jane Morrison, semifinals; McKay Nelson, semifinals.
Poetry: Olivia Allen, quarterfinals; Evan Avery, quarterfinals; Corinne Baskin, quarterfinals; Candace Mullins, quarterfinals; Maggie Tirey, champion.
Prose: Evan Avery, semifinals; Caitlyn DeAraujo, semifinals; Kyle Snapp, quarterfinals; Maggie Tirey, quarterfinals; Joe Will, quarterfinals; Courtney Wood, fifth.
Storytelling: Kyle Snapp, fourth.
Student Congress: Evan Avery, Supercongress; Jamie Mohan, fifth; Jared Rehberg, second.
Danville wins KCFL13th Straight Year!
Ninekids headed to Albany forNats!
Danville High School won the Kentucky Catholic Forensic League speech tournament held in Hodgenville on March 7. This is the thirteenth straight year DHS has won this tournament, the qualifying tournament to the national tournament, held this year in Albany, NY.
Eight DHS students will be part of Kentucky's delegation toNationals.Team co-captains Candace Mullins and Kyle Snapp (in Duo Interpretation)and freshman Madeline Salinas (in Declamation) not only qualified for nationals but were also the tournament champions in their events. Also headed to nationals will be Jamie Mohan and Cole Steber (2nd in Public Forum Debate), Jared Rehberg (3rd in Student Congress), and McKay Nelson and Lydia Pope (4th and 5th in Original Oratory, respectively). Also, Maggie Tirey (Oral Interpretation) and Leila Samhat were named alternates to nationals for Kentucky. Congratulations! Special Congrats to Maggie, who has moved up and now gets to go to CFL Nationals!
DANVILLE HIGH SCHOOL TAKES STATE SPEECH TITLE FOURTH STRAIGHT YEAR
Danville High School took first place in the Overall Sweepstakes as well as in Class AAA at the Kentucky High School Speech League’s State Speech Tournament held at Western Kentucky University March 13 and 14. This is Danville’s fourth straight win of the state speech title.
Nearly 500 students from around the state competed in the state speech tournament after qualifying for it in one of the seven regional tournaments held in February. For the first time, schools competed in three classes (based on their number of entries qualified from the Regional tournament). In the largest class, AAA, Danville placed first by two points over 2nd place Boone County. Knott County Central placed third, followed by Louisville Assumption, Graves County, and Grant County. Calloway County took top honors in AA with East Jessamine and Oldham County second and third. In class A, LaRue County won top honors followed by June Buchanan and Central Hardin.
Three DHS students were named state champions by winning one of the twelve speech categories: Jane Morrison, first in Broadcasting; Jamie Mohan, first in Impromptu Speaking, and Kyle Snapp, who successfully defended his title to win Dramatic Interpretation for the second straight year. Seven more DHS entries advanced to the final rounds: Tanner Burks, fifth in Declamation; Olivia Allen, fifth in Dramatic Interpretation; the team of Candace Mullins and Kyle Snapp, third in Duo Interpretation; Jamie Mohan, fourth in Extemporaneous Speaking; Kyle Snapp, third in Humorous Interpretation; Kaitlin Snapp, fifth in Impromptu Speaking; McKay Nelson, fourth in Original Oratory.
Additionally, twelve more DHS entries advanced to the semifinals, or top 18, after the first three preliminary rounds of competition. These semifinalists are Jane Morrison in Declamation, Courtney Wood in Dramatic Interpretation and Prose, Jared Rehberg in Extemporaneous Speaking, Drew Lane in Humorous Interpretation, Joe Will in Humorous Interpretation, Lydia Pope in Original Oratory, Corinne Baskin and Maggie Tirey in Poetry, Evan Avery and McKay Nelson in Prose, and Ali Gautier in Storytelling.
On Friday, the winners of the state debate tournament, held March 12 and 13 at WKU, were announced. Danville’s Jared Rehberg was named State Champion in Student Congress with teammates Jamie Mohan and Cole Steber taking second and fifth, respectively, in the largest Student Congress yet hosted at KHSSL. Kyle Snapp also advanced out of the preliminary sessions to the final session for Danville, and DHS placed sixth overall in the Debate team sweepstakes despite only competing in one of the five debate categories.
Danville advances five to NFL Nationals!
The Kentucky National Forensic League held its annual tournament to qualify students to the National Forensic League Grand Nationals at Centre College on March 20 and 21. Twenty-five schools from around the Commonwealth, the cream of Kentucky’s competitive speech and debate teams, competed for the right to represent the Bluegrass State in Birmingham at the Nationals in June. Students competed in six speech and six debate contests, and twenty-four students from twelve Kentucky schools advanced on to the Grand Nationals.
Rowan County Senior High School in Morehead was named the overall school winner, beating rival Danville High by one point and Boone County by three. Five students from Danville will compete for Kentucky at the grand nationals in Birmingham: Cole Steber/Jamie Mohan (first place) in Public Forum Debate; Candace Mullins/Kyle Snapp (second place) in Duo Interp; Jared Rehberg (first place) in the Senate. Several more DHS students advanced to finals: Jamie Mohan, first in International Extemp and in Legislative Debate/House; Jared Rehberg, sixth in United States Extemporaneous Speaking;Kyle Snapp, firstin Dramatic Interpretation; Courtney Wood, fifth in Dramatic Interpretation; Lydia Pope, fourth in Original Oratory; Nate Johnson, seventh in Legislative Debate/House;Cole Steber,fourth inLegislative Debate/Senate.