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Monday, April 27, 2009
Pacific SECOND IN THE NATION!

 

If you noticed that there seemed to be a larger number of students on campus this weekend, you would be correct!  Pacific was host to the largest debate championship in the country.  The National Parliamentary Debate Association’s (NPDA) National Championship tournament was held from 3/27-3/30, 2009.  Over eighty schools competed with over 230 teams!  Pacific did VERY well.  In fact, this is the best Pacific has done at the NPDA Nationals.  Pacific finished 4th overall in tournament sweepstakes and finished at Third Overall in the Nation for Season-Long Sweepstakes.  Helping us to that fantastic finish were Pacific FS (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon) who went 7-1 in prelims and made it to Octofinals.  They were the tenth seed going into elimination rounds.  Emily was also the 34th speaker out of 466 speakers nationwide.  Not far behind was Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid) who went 6-2 in prelims and were 22nd (Sarah) and 23rd (Will) speakers respectively.  Pacific ES (Anne Eastlick and Brandon Schwartz), Pacific AK (Rich Aragon & Yasar Khan) , and Pacific BK (Tariq Bruno & Chelsea Kelleher) also advanced to the elimination rounds.

 

The Tigers next travel to Springfield, MO, for the National Forensics Association National Championship in Individual Events and Lincoln-Douglas debate.

 

As always here are the overall results:

 

Tournament Sweeps:           Second in the Nation! Best Finish Ever!

 

Season-long Sweeps:            Third Place in the NATION

(Last minute results put Pt. Loma Nazarene University and Western Washington University ahead of us.  This is STILL our best finish ever!)

 

Team Placings

Octofinalists   Pacific FS (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon)

Octofinalists   Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid)

Triple-Octofinalists   Pacific ES (Anne Eastlick & Brandon Schwartz)

Triple-Octofinalists   Pacific AK (Richard Aragon & Yasar Khan)

Quadra-Octofinalists Pacific BK (Tariq Bruno & Chelsea Kelleher)

 

Octofinalists:  Top 16 out of 233 teams at the tournament.

Triple-Octofinalists:  Top 64

Quadra-Octofinalists: Top 86

Monday, April 27, 2009
PSDS NFA Results

Pacific finishes sixth in Lincoln-Douglas, Eighth in Individual Events at NFA Nationals

 

On April 15-21, 2009, Pacific Speech and Debate travelled to Springfield, MO, to compete at the National Forensics Association National Tournament being co-hosted by Missouri State University and Drury University.  This tournament features individual events (i.e., speeches written and present by a single student or a debate done by a single student).  In our best finish in five years, Pacific tied for sixth in Lincoln-Douglas Debate and finished eighth in the country (in its division) for individual speeches.  The standouts were: Steve Farias, Traiq Bruno, and Will Chamberlain.  Steve made it to the quarter-final round of Lincoln-Douglas Debate (Top 8 Competitors in the country!) and was Seventh speaker overall.  Tariq made it to the Quarter-Final round of Impromptu Speaking (Top 24 competitors in the country!).  Will made it to the Double-Octofinal round of Lincoln-Douglas (Top 32) and was Fifth speaker overall!  Also competing at the tournament and helping in achieving the 8th place sweepstakes trophy were Anne Eastlick, Sarah Hamid, Brandon Schwartz, and Emily Sheldon.

 

Monday, March 23, 2009
Pacific with best NPTE finish EVER!

Pacific Debaters with Best Finish at NPTE ever!

 

On March 21-23, Pacific Speech and Debate traveled to UC Berkeley to participate in the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence (NPTE).  The NPTE is invitation-only based on season-long rankings of individual debate teams.  Only the top 64 teams in the country are invited. In a first ever for Pacific, Pacific debate teams advanced to the elimination rounds!  Only the top 32 teams advance and then duel it out for first place.  Pacific Debate team, Pacific AK (Richard Aragon / Yasar Khan), finished the tournament in 20th place and Pacific FS (Steve Farias and Emily Sheldon) took 25th place out of the best of the best debaters in the country!  This is an AMAZING accomplishment and please help me congratulate them as they—and the entire team—start to prepare for the NPDA National Championship that starts on Friday at Pacific.

Monday, February 23, 2009
Pacific First Overall at NCFA

Pacific First Overall in Northern California Championships!

Pacific Debaters First & Second!

 

On February 20-22, Pacific Speech and Debate travelled to Chico State to compete in the Northern California Forensics Association Championship tournament.  With the entire team travelling, it was quite a caravan of cars!  At then end of the weekend, not only did Pacific dominate in debate by taking first and second, we also were the ONLY competitors to advance to the final round in Impromptu and were six out of seven in finals of Extemporaneous Speaking.  Pacific next travels to the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence at UC Berkeley to compete against the top 64 teams in the nation!

 

As always the following is a listing of all of the results this weekend and not necessarily intended for publication.

 

Sweepstakes

First Place      Overall Points

First Place      University Division

 

Parliamentary Debate

Team Placings

CHAMPION    Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid) – Undefeated

Second Place  Pacific FS (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon) – Undefeated

Semi-Finalist  Pacific AK (Richard Aragon & Yasar Khan)

Quarter-Finalist Pacific ES   (Anne Eastlick & Brandon Schwartz)

Quarter-Finalist Pacific BK   (Tariq Bruno & Chelsea Kelleher)

 

Speaker Placings

TOP SPEAKER          Sarah Hamid

Second                        Will Chamberlain

Third                          Steve Farias

5th Speaker                Emily Sheldon

8th Speaker                Anne Eastlick

 

Individual Events

Impromptu Speaking

Open Division

CHAMPION    Tariq Bruno

Second Place  BJ McCollister

Third Place    Steve Farias

Finalist            Will Chamberlain

Finalist            Sarah Hamid

Finalist            Richard Aragon

Finalist            Anne Eastlick

 

Novice Division

Finalist            Kelly Volkar

 

Informative Speaking (Open)

Third Place    Anne Eastlick

Finalist            Emily Sheldon

Finalist            Rachera Swan

 

Persuasive Speaking (Open)

Finalist            Anne Eastlick

 

Communication Analysis (Open)

Third Place    Emily Sheldon

 

Programmed Oral Interpretation (Open)

Second Place  Chelsea Kelleher

 

Dramatic Interpretation (Open)

Second Place  Chelsea Kelleher

 

Duo Interpretation (Open)

Finalist            Jennifer Ramirez/Rachera Swan

 

Extemporaneous Speaking

Open Division

CHAMPION    Emily Sheldon

Second Place  Sarah Hamid

Third Place    Will Chamberlain

Finalist            Brandon Schwartz

Finalist            Anne Eastlick

Finalist            Tariq Bruno

 

Novice Division

Finalist            Kelly Volkar

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Pacific Takes Second Overall at pt. Loma
On February 6-8, Pacific Speech and Debate traveled down to San Diego to compete in the Southwestern/Sunset Cliffs Invitationa

Pacific Takes Second Overall!

 

On February 6-8, Pacific Speech and Debate traveled down to San Diego to compete in the Southwestern/Sunset Cliffs Invitational and Pont Loma Round Robin.  Taking 5 debate teams, Pacific did very well, taking second out of over 60 schools!  During Friday of the tournament, the team of Pacific FS (Steve Farias and Emily Sheldon) competed in the Round Robin, while their teammates did very well in individual events at Southerwestern College.  Saturday and Sunday all five teams competed at Pt. Loma Nazarene in both debate and individual events.  Pacific next travels to Chico State University for NCFA February 20th and 21st.

 

As always, the following represents how every member of the team did at the tournament and is not necessarily intended for publication.

 

Sweepstakes

 

Southwestern                                      3rd Place

Sunset Cliffs                                       2nd Place

Swing (For the entire weekend)          2nd Place

 

Point Loma Round Robin

Semi-Finalists                                     Pacific FS (Farias & Sheldon)

 

Speakers

11th Place                                             Steve Farias

12th Place                                             Emily Sheldon

 

Southwestern

Extemporaneous Speaking

2nd Place                                              Brandon Schwartz

3rd Place                                              Will Chamberlain

4th Place                                               Sarah Hamid

 

Impromptu Speaking

CHAMPION                                      Sarah Hamid

4th Place                                               Will Chamberlain

 

Informative Speaking

CHAMPION                                      Will Chamberlain

 

Sunset Cliffs Invitational

Parliamentary Debate

Octofinalist                                         Pacific CH (Hamid & Chamberlain)

Double-Octofinalist                            Pacific FS (Farias & Sheldon)

Double-Octofinalist                            Pacific ES (Eastlick & Schwartz)

 

Speakers

4th Place                                               Sarah Hamid

12th Place                                             Brandon Schwartz

13th Place                                             Emily Sheldon

16th Place                                             Anne Eastlick

 

Lincoln Douglas Debate

Octofinalist                                         Will Chamberlain

 

Individual Events

 

Extemporaneous Speaking

CHAMPION                                      Steve Farias

Finalist                                                Richard Aragon

Semi-Finalist                                       Anne Eastlick

Semi-Finalist                                       Emily Sheldon

Semi-Finalist                                       BJ McCollister

 

Informative Speaking

3rd Place                                              Anne Eastlick

Finalist                                                Emily Sheldon

 

Impromptu Speaking

2nd Place                                              Steve Farias

3rd Place                                              Sarah Hamid

Finalist                                                Anne Eastlick

Semi-Finalist                                       Richard Aragon

Semi-Finalist                                       Emily Sheldon

 

Persuasive Speaking

Finalist                                                Anne Eastlick

 

Communication Analysis

CHAMPION                                      Emily Sheldon

 

Programmed Oral Interpretation

Finalist                                                Chelsea Kelleher

 

                       

 

Monday, February 2, 2009
Pacific Takes First overall at Copeland Invitational

Pacific Takes First Overall

            On January 30-31, Pacific Speech and Debate travelled to Santa Clara University for the 2009 Father Copeland Invitational.  Taking eight debate teams, Pacific did very well, taking first over all other schools with more than twice the points of the second place school.  Helping contribute to this win was the team of Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain and Sarah Hamid) who went undefeated in preliminary rounds and took third place in the tournament.  Also assisting were Steve Farias and Emily Sheldon who took first and second speaker, respectively.  Pacific next travels to Pt. Loma Nazarene University for the Sunset Cliffs classic on Febrary 5-9, 2009.

 

As always, the following represents how every member of the team did at the tournament and is not necessarily intended for publication.

 

Sweepstakes

CHAMPION    University of the Pacific

 

Team Placings

Third Place                Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid)

Quarter-Finalist         Pacific AM (Rich Aragon & BJ McCollister

                                    (The above team went 6-0 in its FIRST tournament together)

Quarter-Finalist         Pacific FS (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon)

Quarter-Finalist         Pacific ES (Anne Eastlick & Brandon Schwartz)

Octo-Finalist               Pacific BK (Tariq Bruno & Chelsea Kelleher)

 

Speaker Placings

CHAMPION                Steve Farias

Second Speaker         Emily Sheldon

Fifth Speaker             Chelsea Kelleher

Ninth Speaker           Will Chamberlain

Tenth Speaker           Brandon Schwartz

 

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Pacific Takes First overall at Talk Hawk Invitational

Pacific Takes First Overall

 

On February 23, Pacific Speech and Debate traveled to Las Positas College to compete against other Northern California speech teams in debate and individual speech events.  In parliamentary debate, the team of Pacific MS (BJ McCollister & Julia Sweeney) took second place in the Talk Hawk Round Robin earning themselves $100 in the process.  Not to be outdone, Emily Sheldon, took first in individual events sweepstakes and earned $75!  These placings—and many others—put Pacific in First place for four year schools and first place overall by 30+ points over its closest rival.  The team next travels to the Father Copeland Debate Invitational at Santa Clara University on January 30-31, 2009.

 

The following placings are for informational purposes and are not necessarily for publication.

 

Individual Events

First Place      Overall Sweepstakes

First Place      Four Year Sweepstakes

 

Individual Placings

Individual Events Sweepstakes

CHAMPION    Emily Sheldon

 

Communication Analysis

CHAMPION    Emily Sheldon

 

Dramatic Interpretation

CHAMPION    Chelsea Kelleher

 

After-Dinner Speaking

CHAMPION    Brandon Schwartz

 

Duo Interpretation

Second Place  Rachera Swan & Jennifer Ramirez

 

Programmed Oral Interpretation

Second Place  Chelsea Kelleher

 

Extemporaneous Speaking

CHAMPION    Brandon Schwartz

Second Place  BJ McCollister

Third Place    Emily Sheldon

Fifth Place      Rich Aragon

 

Impromptu Speaking

CHAMPION    Emily Sheldon

Second Place  Rich Aragon

Third Place    Anne Eastlick

Fourth Place  Genessa Sanford

 

Informative Speaking

Third Place    Emily Sheldon

Fourth Place  Anne Eastlick

Fifth Place      Rachera Swan

 

Persuasive Speaking

Fourth Place  Rachera Swan

 

Prose Interpretation

Third Place    Jennifer Ramirez

 

 

Parliamentary Debate

Second Place  Pacific MS (BJ McCollister & Julia Sweeney)

 

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Debaters take First in Ohio

Pacific Debaters Take First

Pacific Speech & Debate takes Sixth

This weekend the Pacific Speech & Debate team traveled to frigid Columbus, Ohio, to compete in the 2008 Holiday Frolic Swings at The Ohio State University.  Competing only in individual events and Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Pacific finished 5th overall out of twenty-seven schools.  This was primarily because of four individuals: Tariq Bruno, Will Chamberlain,  Steve Farias and Yasir Khan!  Tariq & Will did well in all of their events (Impromptu, Extemporaneous, & Debate) while Yasir took first in LD on Sunday and Steve was first speaker in debate on Sunday.   This is a very good test of nationals in LD, so we are hopeful we can do even better in April.

 

As always the following represents the individual performances and is not necessarily intended for publication.

 

2008 Holiday Folic (The Ohio State University)

 

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Octofinalist:    Will Chamberlain

 

Impromptu

Second            Will Chamberlain

 

Extemporaneous

Fifth                Will Chamberlain

 

2008 Frolic Some More (Otterbein College)

 

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

CHAMPION                Yasir Khan

Semi-Finalist              Will Chmaberlain

Quarter-Finalist         Steve Farias

Quarter-Finalist         Tariq Bruno

Octo-finalist               Sarah Hamid

Octo-finalist               Rich Aragon

 

LD Speakers

Top Speaker              Steve Farias

Second                        Tariq Bruno

 

Impromptu

CHAMPION                Tariq Bruno

 

Extemporaneous

Third                          Tariq Bruno

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Pacific DOMINATES largest tournament in the country!

 

 

Pacific Dominates in Largest tournament in the country AT PACIFIC!!

 

On November 7-9, 2008, Pacific played host to the largest regular-season forensics tournament in the country this year.  The weekend consisted of the Mustang Invitational, the Pat Kennedy Round Robin, and the Paul Winters Invitational.  Over six hundred people came to Pacific to compete against 59 schools from around the country!  IN a first for Pacific, a Pacific debate team, Pacific FS (Steve Farias and Emily Sheldon) were not only the first and second speakers at the Round Robin, but they were also in the final round!  They debated a topic derived from a talk given by Dr. Laura Rademacher who is a geology professor at Pacific!  Also, during the weekend, Tariq Bruno beat out 81 competitors to finish first in Impromptu speaking as well as fight off over fifty competitors in Lincoln Douglas debate to finish third!  Also, Steve Farias was the second speaker in Open Parliamentary debate out of almost TWO HUNDRED competitors!  All of this (and so much more listed below) resulted in Pacific earning 25% of ALL of the possible points for the weekend!  This was almost twice as many as its closest competitor!  Even though we could not award ourselves the first place trophy, we nonetheless were the tops for the Paul Winters Invitational and tops for the entire weekend!

 

Pacific Speech and Debate wants to thank everyone who helped make this a success.  From faculty to staff, to students and local community members, it was a great event and Pacific shone!

 

As always, the following is for informational purposes and not necessarily intended for publication:

 

Sweepstakes

Paul Winters Invitational:                                                      First Place

Mustang Invitational:                                                               Third Place

Swing Sweepstakes (Full Weekend combined):            First Place

Individual IE Sweepstakes:                                                    Emily Sheldon, Fifth Place

 

Pat Kennedy Round Robin

Team Placings

Second Place              Pacific FS (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon)

 

Speakers

Top Speaker              Steve Farias

Second Place              Emily Sheldon

 

 

Paul Winters Invitational

Parliamentary Debate

Open Division

Team Placings

Octofinalist                 Pacific FS (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon)

Double-Octofinalist   Pacific AK  (Richard Aragon & Yasir Khan)

Double-Octofinalist   Pacific ES (Anne Eastlick & Brandon Schwartz)

 

Speakers

Second Speaker         Steve Farias

Eighth Speaker          Emily Sheldon

 

 

Junior Division

Team Placings

Octofinalist                 Pacific SM (Jullia Sweeney & BJ McCollister)

 

Speakers

Thirteenth                 BJ McCollister

 

NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Third Place                Tariq Bruno

Quarter-Finalist         William Chamberlain

Octo-Finalist               Richard Aragon

Octo-finalist               Yasir Khan

 

Individual Events

Impromptu Speaking

Open Division

Fourth Place              Emily Sheldon

Fifth Place                  Anne Eastlick

Semi-Finalist              Sarah Hamid

Semi-Finalist              Victor Inzunza

Semi-Finalist              Rebecca Benjamin

Semi-Finalist              Richard Aragon

Semi-Finalist              Steve Farias

Semi-Finalist              Brandon Schwartz

Semi-Finalist              Will Chamberlain

 

Novice Division

Fourth Place              Jennifer Ramirez

 

Extemporaneous Speaking

Open Division

CHAMPION                Tariq Bruno

Sixth Place                 BJ McCollister

Semi-Finalist              Emily Sheldon

Semi-Finalist              Sarah Hamid

Semi-Finalist              Jullia Sweeney

Semi-Finalist              Richard Aragon

 

Persuasive Speaking

Open Division

Third Place                Rachera Swan

Fourth Place              Anne Eastlick

 

Informative Speaking

Open Division

Third Place                Will Chamberlain

Fourth Place              Emily Sheldon

Fifth Place                  Anne Eastlick

 

Communication Analysis

Open Division

CHAMPION                Steve Farias

Fifth Place                  Emily Sheldon

 

Mustang Invitational

Individual Events

Informative Speaking

Fourth Place              Anne Eastlick

Sixth Place                 Rachera Swan

 

Extemporaneous Speaking

Novice Division

Fifth Place      Austin Young

 

Open Division

Champion   Sarah Hamid

 

Persuasive Speaking

Third Place    Anne Eastlick

Fifth Place      Chelsea Kelleher

 

Impromptu Speaking

Novice Division

Third Place    Austin Young

 

Open Division

Third Place    Anne Eastlick

Fifth Place      Sarah Hamid

Finalist            Andrew White

Finalist            BJ McCollister

Finalist            Robert DalBianco

 

 

Monday, November 3, 2008
Pacific First Overall AGAIN!

Pacific Speech and Debate First Overall for the 4th year in a row!

 

Bright (okay, not so bright, it was 6 am and still dark) and early Saturday, November 1, Pacific Speech and Debate piled in cars and drove to UC Berkeley for the Golden Gate Invitational and for the fourth year in a row, Pacific was first in Individual Events, Second in Debate and First Overall!!!  Out of over twenty schools, UC Berkeley included, Pacific was tops!  It only could have happened with all of the extraordinary effort that the entire team put in and the results tell the tale.  Indeed, Pacific debater, Steven Farias, even made it to the second elimination round with only a novice debater from another school as his partner!  Steve also was first in Extemporaneous Speaking and and fifth in Impromptu speaking.  Definitely, a great addition to our success.  Will Chamberlain also did exceptionally well.  He and his partner, Sarah Hamid, made it to the second elimination round in debate AND Will placed first in Informative Speaking, third in Extemporaneous Speaking, and fourth in Impromptu Speaking.  Sarah also placed first in Impromptu Speaking!

 

Here are the individual placings.  As always, this is for informational purposes and is not necessarily intended for publication.

 

Individual Events

 

Impromptu Speaking

CHAMPION    Sarah Hamid

Third Place    Tariq Bruno

Fourth Place  Will Chamberlain

Fifth Place      Steve Farias

Sixth Place     Yasir Khan

 

Extemporaneous Speaking

CHAMPION    Steve Farias

Second Place  Tariq Bruno

Third Place    Will Chamberlain

Fourth Place  Richard Aragon

Sixth Place     Anne Eastlick

 

Prose Interpretation

Second Place  Jennifer Ramirez

Third Place    Rachel Malm

 

Duo Interpretation

First Place      Rebecca Benjamin & Jennifer Ramirez

Second Place  Rachel Malm & Rachera Swan

 

After-Dinner Speaking

First Place      Brandon Schwartz

 

Persuasive Speaking

First Place      Anne Eastlick

Second Place  Chelsea Kelleher

Third Place    Rachera Swan

Fourth Place  Julia Sweeney

 

Programmed Oral Interpretation

Third Place    Chelsea Kelleher

Fourth Place  Rachel Malm

Fifth Place      Rachera Swan

 

Informative Speaking

CHAMPION    Will Chamberlain

Second Place  Rachera Swan

Fourth Place  Anne Eastlick

Fifth Place      Tariq Bruno

 

 

Parliamentary Debate

Team Placings

Octofinalist     Pacific/UN, Reno       Steve Farias & Elia Pirtle

Octofinalist     Pacific CH                   Will Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid

Double-Octos Pacific ES                    Anne Eastlick & Brandon Schwartz

 

Speaker Placings

Ninth Speaker           Yasir Khan

11th Speaker              Richard Aragon

12th Speaker              Steve Farias

15th Speaker              Sarah Hamid

19th Speaker              Will Chamberlain

 

Monday, October 20, 2008
Pacific Speech & Debate First Overall!

Over the weekend of October 16-19, 2008, Pacific Speech and Debate travelled to Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California for the California Double-up.  This weekend was packed with FOUR tournaments in three days!  After a grueling competition, Pacific finished first overall out of thirty-two schools!!  Of particular note was Pacific FS’ (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon) First place finish in Parliamentary Debate on Friday and Steve Farias’ and Tariq Bruno’s first and second place (respectively) finish in Impromptu Speaking!  Or perhaps it was that Pacific had eight of the ten top speakers at the first debate tournament AND six of ten in the second!  In only her second tournament EVER, Julia Sweeney took third place in Open Impromptu and sixth in Open Extemp!  Amazing stuff!

 

As always what follows are the individual placings (and there are a LOT of them) and not necessarily for publication.

 

Sweepstakes

Overall:      First

NPDA (Cougar Classic):       4th

Individual Events (Cougar Classic):  First

 

Parliamentary Debate

Reel Classic (Mt. San Antonio College)

Team Placings (Open Division)

FIRST PLACE                       Pacific FS (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon)

Semi-Finalists Pacific AK (Rich Aragon & Yasir Khan)

Quarter Finalists         Pacific CH (William Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid)

Quarter-Finalists         Pacific ES (Anne Eastlick & Brandon Schwartz)

 

Speaker Placings

TOP SPEAKER         Richard Aragon

2nd Place                      Sarah Hamid

4th Place                       Emily Sheldon

5th Place                       Will Chamberlain

6th Place                       Yasir Khan

7th Place                       Tariq Bruno

8th Place                       Steve Farias

10th Place                     Chelsea Kelleher

 

Cougar Classic (Azusa Pacific University)

Team Placings

 (Open Division)

Quarterfinalists           Pacific FS

Quarterfinalists           Pacific CH

Quarterfinalists           Pacific ES

Quarterfinalists           Pacific AK

 

Speaker Placings

TOP SPEAKER         Steve Farias

2nd Place                      Emily Sheldon

5th Place                       Rich Aragon

6th Place                       William Chamberlain

7th Place                       Sarah Hamid

8th Place                       Anne Eastlick

 

(Junior Division)

Third Place                  Pacific BM (Rebecca Benjamin & BJ McCollister)

 

Speaker Placings

Second Place               Rebecca Benjamin

3rd Place                      BJ McCollister

10th Place                     Austin Young

 

Individual Events

Reel Classic

Impromptu (Open Division)

Third Place      Julia Sweeney

 

Extemporaneous Speaking (Novice Division)

First Place       Julia Sweeney

 

Persuasive Speaking (Novice Division)

First Place       Julia Sweeney

 

Cougar Classic

Extemporaneous Speaking

(Open Division)

Second Place               Steve Farias

 

(Novice Division)      

Third Place                  Austin Young

 

Impromptu Speaking

(Open Division)

CHAMPION  Steve Farias

2nd Place          Tariq Bruno

Semi-Finalist   Anne Eastlick

 

(Novice Division)

Semi-Finalist               Jennifer Ramirez

 

Communication Analysis (Open Division)

4th Place           Steve Farias

Programmed Oral Interpretation (Open Division)

Finalist            Rachel Malm

 

Lincoln-Douglas Debate (Open Division)

Second Place       Brandon Schwartz

Semi-Finalist       Will Chamberlain

Semi-Finalist       Richard Aragon

Quarter-Finalist  Genessa Sanford

Quarter-Finalist Sarah Hamid

Quarter-Finalist BJ McCollister

Quarter-Finalist Yasir Khan

 

 

Friday, October 10, 2008
Pacific with best Rockies finish ever!
Pacific Speech and Debate with Best Rockies Finish ever

Pacific Speech and Debate with Best Rockies Finish ever!

 

On October 2, 2008, the Pacific Speech & Debate team traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, for the annual “Top of the Rockies” tournament held by the University of Wyoming.  In the best finish Pacific has ever had at this tournament, Pacific finished third out of twenty-two schools!  Pacific Lincoln-Douglas debater, Tariq Bruno, finished third and Parliamentary debater, Sarah Hamid, finished second speaker out of almost 90 debaters!  Three Pacific debate teams broke to elimination rounds [Pacific FS (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon) – Quarter-Finalists; Pacific CH (Will Chamberlain & Sarah Hamid) – Octofinalists; and Pacific AK (Richard Aragon & Yasir Khan) – Double-Octofinalists] and Chelsea Kelleher did very well in her individual events.  Pacific next travels to Asuza Pacific University in Los Angeles for the California Double-Up Swing.

 

What follows lists the individual accomplishments and is not necessarily for publication.

 

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Third Place                  Tariq Bruno

Quarter-Finalist           Steve Farias

 

Parliamentary Debate

Team Placings

Quarter-Finalists         Pacific FS        (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon)

Octofinalists                Pacific CH       (Sarah Hamid & Will Chamberlain)

Double-Octofinalists   Pacific AK      (Richard Aragon & Yasir Khan)

 

Speaker Placings (out of 88 debaters)

Second Place               Sarah Hamid

Fifteenth Place Steve Farias

19th Place                     Emily Sheldon

 

Individual Events

Persuasion

Third Place      Chelsea Kelleher

Programmed Oral Interpretation

Second Place   Chelsea Kelleher

 

Monday, September 29, 2008
Pacific Dominates Season Openers
Pacific Dominates Debate in Season Openers

Pacific Dominates Debate in Season Openers!

 

On September 28, 2008, Pacific Speech and Debate finished up a VERY successful weekend of speech and debate competition.  Not only did Pacific finish third overall out of a number of schools, but they ended the debate portion two rounds EARLY because Pacific debate teams were the only ones left in the competition!  Pacific debate teams were the top four teams to qualify for the elimination rounds.  After each defeating their opponents in the quarter-final round, only Pacific teams remained!  There was no need to hold a semi-final or a final round because Pacific won no matter what!  This combined with a very good showing in the individual events allow Pacific to finish third out of twenty-nine schools!  Not to be outdone, one Pacific debate team (Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon) traveled to the Claremont National Debate Open and finished with a 7-1 record and was the top seed advancing to elimination rounds where they finished as quarter-finalists!  The team next travels to the University of Wyoming for the “Top of the Rockies” tournament on October 2!

 

What follows is a detailed listing of all of the results from this fantastic weekend and is, as always, not intended for publication.

 

Parliamentary Debate

Team Placings @ Golden Gate Season Opener

First Place       Pacific BK       Tariq Bruno & Chelsea Kelleher        

Second Place   Pacific HK      Sarah Hamid & Yasir Khan

Third Place      Pacific AC       Richard Aragon & Will Chamberlain

Third Place      Pacific ES        Anne Eastlick & Brandon Schwartz

 

Speakers @ Golden Gate Season Opener

First Place       Tariq Bruno

Second Place   Sarah Hamid

Fourth Place    Chelsea Kelleher

Fifth Place       Richard Aragon

Sixth Place      Will Chamberlain

Seventh Place  Brandon Schwartz

Eighth Place    Yasir Khan

Tenth Place      Anne Eastlick

 

Team Placings @ Claremont National Opener

Quarter-Finalists         Pacific FS        Steve Farias & Emily Sheldon

 

Speakers @ Claremont National Opener

Second Place   Emily Sheldon

Fifth Place       Steve Farias

 

Claremont National Round Robin

Fifth Speaker   Steve Farias

 

Individual Events

Golden Gate Season Opener #1

Open Programmed Oral Interpretation

Finalist            Chelsea Kelleher

 

Novice Dramatic Interpretation

Finalist            Genessa Sanford

 

Novice Persuasion

Finalist            Julia Sweeney

 

Open Extemporaneous Speaking

Second Place   Will Chamberlain

Third Place      Sarah Hamid

Finalist            Tariq Bruno

Finalist            Richard Aragon

 

Novice Extemporaneous Speaking

Third Place      BJ McCallister

Finalist            Rebecca Benjamin

Finalist            Genessa Sanford

 

Open Impromptu Speaking

First Place       Tariq Bruno

Second Place   Richard Aragon

Third Place      Will Chamberlain

 

Novice Impromptu Speaking

Third Place      BJ McCollister

 

Golden Gate Season Opener #2

Open Programmed Oral Interpretation

Finalist            Chelsea Kelleher

 

Open Impromptu Speaking

First Place       Anne Eastlick

Second Place   Will Chamberlain

Finalist            Richard Aragon

Finalist            Tariq Bruno

Finalist            Brandon Schwartz

Finalist            Robert DalBianco

 

Novice Impromptu Speaking

Second Place   BJ McCollister

Finalist            Andrew White

 

Open Extemporaneous Speaking

First Place       Will Chamberlain

Third Place      Richard Aragon

 

Novice Extemporaneous Speaking

First Place       BJ McCollister

Third Place      Andrew White

Finalist            Austin Young

 

 

If you have any questions regarding this or any other information about Pacific Speech 7 Debate, please contact Dr. Marlin Bates via e-mail at mbates@pacific.edu OR 209-946-3049!