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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Pacific Debaters Finish in Elite 8 at NPDA

Pacific Debaters in the Elite Eight for first time ever!

Pacific Debate finishes the year in 9th place nationally.

 

Pacific Speech and Debate travelled to Lubbock, Texas, to compete at the National Parliamentary Debate Association’s national championship tournament from March 17 to March 23, 2010.  Out of 60 schools and almost two hundred debate teams, Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid) advanced all the way to the Quarter-Final Round (Top Eight teams in the tournament).  This is the farthest a Pacific Debate Team has ever advanced at the NPDA Championships.  Additionally, we received our first speaker awards ever: Emily Sheldon was 11th Speaker out of over 350 speakers!  Sarah Hamid placed 12th out of all of those speakers!  An outstanding achievement.  As a squad, Pacific finished 9th in season-long sweepstakes and 11th in Tournament Sweepstakes.  Although we have done better as a school, the accomplishments by the individual debaters is a VERY stellar achievement and should be congratulated. She was one of only seven people in the entire nation to be designated an "All-American" this year.

 

As always, the following individual placings are not necessarily intended for publication:

Season-long Sweepstakes (year long results out of over 250 schools nationwide)

9th Place            University of the Pacific 

 

Tournament Sweepstakes (Results accrued only at the National Championship)

11th Place            University of the Pacific 

 

Team Placings

Quarter-Finalist            Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid)

Dbl-Octo-Finalist            Pacific KS (Chelsea Kelleher & Emily Sheldon)

 

Speaker Placings      

11th Place                  Emily Sheldon

12th Place                  Sarah Hamid

 

Quarter-Finalists:                  (Elite 8)          Top 8 teams out of 185 at tournament

Double Octo-Finalists:           (Round of 32)           Top 32 teams out of 185 at tournament

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Pacific Speech & Debate First Overall!

Pacific Takes First at Sunset Cliffs

 

This past weekend, Pacific Speech and Debate travelled to Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA and competed against 55 other schools from around the country.  At the end of the long weekend, Pacific debaters were first in the tournament and Pacific was first in schools!  It is a grueling tournament and is often as big as or bigger than the Paul Winters tournament in the Fall.  It is a testament to the dedication of all students competing for Pacific that we won the day!  Of specific note, is that this is the first time a Pacific debate team has won this tournament (Pacific CH Will Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid) as well as the fact that Emma Henry placed 4th in individual events sweepstakes out of over 100 speakers!

 

As always, the following information represents the individual efforts of each competitor and is not necessarily intended for publication.

 

Sunset Cliffs Classic @ Pt. Loma

 

Sweepstakes

CHAMPION    University of the Pacific

 

Parliamentary Debate

Team Placings

CHAMPION                Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain and Sarah Hamid)

Quarter-Finalist         Pacific KS (Chelsea Kelleher & Emily Sheldon)

Double Octofinalist   Pacific HS (Emma Henry & Brandon Schwartz)

 

Speaker Placings

Seventh Speaker       Sarah Hamid

11th Speaker              Will Chamberlain

19th Speaker              Emily Sheldon

 

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Semi-Finalist              Will Chamberlain

Quarter-Finalist         Sarah Hamid

Quarter-Finalist         Emily Sheldon

 

Individual Events

Individual Sweepstakes

Fourth                        Emma Henry

 

Extemporaneous Speaking

Second Place  Emma Henry

 

Impromptu Speaking

CHAMPION    Emma Henry

Finalist            Brandon Schwartz

 

After Dinner Speaking

Finalist            Brandon Schwartz

 

Prose Interpretation

Second Place  Chelsea Kelleher

 

Programmed Oral Interpretation

Third Place    Chelsea Kelleher

 

Point Loma Tournament of Champions Round Robin

Semi-Finalist  Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid)

 

SouthWestern College Invitational

Extemporaneous Speaking

Finalist            Emma Henry

 

Impromptu Speaking

Finalist            Emma Henry

Finalist            Emily Sheldon

 

Prose Interpretation

CHAMPION    Chelsea Kelleher

 

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Pacific Debaters Win Gorlock Gala

Pacific Debaters Win Gorlock Gala

 

On January 28-Feb 1, 2010, Pacific Speech and Debate travelled to Webster University in St. Louis, MO and competed against 35 other schools from around the country.  At the end of the long weekend, Pacific debaters were first in the tournament. Sarah Hamid was the top speaker and all Pacific competitors showed the Midwesterners that we had the stuff by breaking to final rounds!

 

As always, the following information represents the individual efforts of each competitor and is not necessarily intended for publication.

 

Parliamentary Debate

Team Placings

CHAMPION                Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain and Sarah Hamid)

Octofinalist                 Pacific HS (Emma Henry & Brandon Schwartz)

 

Speaker Placings

CHAMPION                Sarah Hamid

Sixth Place                 Will Chamberlain

13th Place                   Emma Henry

 

Individual Events

Impromptu Speaking

Third Place    Emma Henry

Semi-Finalist  Will Chamberlain

 

Communication Analysis

Finalist            Rachera Swan

 

Informative Speaking

Finalist            Rachera Swan

 

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Semi-Finalist              Will Chamberlain

 

 

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Pacific takes Second Overall at Season Opener

            PACIFIC TAKES SECOND OVERALL AT CAL SEASON OPENER

 

On September 18, 2009 Pacific Speech and Debate traveled to San Francisco, to compete in CAL Season Opener. Over 22 schools were in attendance and Pacific Students did amazingly well! This tournament was a “swing” tournament and combined 2 tournaments in one weekend. In impromptu speaking for the first tournament, Pacific had five out of the six finalists and in extemporaneous Pacific had four out of six!  Over three days of competition, Pacific finished second overall in school sweepstakes. Next Pacific travels to California Double-Up, another swing tournament held at Azusa-Concordia.

 

As always, the following information is not necessarily intended for publication:

 

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE:

 

Sarah Hamid: 1st Speaker

Will Chamberlain: 2nd Speaker

Emily Sheldon: 3rd Speaker

Tariq  Bruno: 4th Speaker

Brandon Schwartz: 9th Speaker

Chelsea Kelleher: 15th Speaker

 

Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain and Sarah Hamid) Semifinalists

Pacific BK (Tariq Bruno and Chelsea Kelleher) Semifinalist

Pacific SS (Brandon Schwartz and Emily Sheldon) Quarterfinalist

Pacific BP (Robert Bayze and Frank Perry) Octofinalist

 

CAL Season Opener 1st Tournament 9-19-09

 

Chelsea Kelleher 3rd Place Open Programmed Oral Interpretation (3rd leg)

Sarah Hamid 1st  Place Impromptu (1st leg)

Tariq Bruno 2nd Place Impromptu (2nd leg)

Will Chamberlain 3rd Place Impromptu (3rd leg)

Emily Sheldon 4th Place Impromptu (4th leg)

Sarah Hamid 1st Place Extemp (1st leg)

Tariq Bruno 2nd Place Extemp

Emily Sheldon 3rd Place Extemp

Brandon Schwartz 4th Place Extemp

Will Chamberlain 5th Place Extemp

Manpreet Sandhu 3rd Place Novice Extemp

 

CAL Season Opener 2nd Tournament 9-20-09

 

Manpreet Sandhu 3rd Place Novice Impromptu

Emily Sheldon 1st place Extemp

Manpreet Sandhu 2nd Novice Extemp

Alia Knight 5th Place Novice Extemp

Nick Leung 6th Place Novice Extemp