Official updates for Liberty HS Speech & Debate. Director of Debate. Communication, Political Science, & Running Enthusiast. LPS. DMS. LHS. EDGE. Cross Country.
King -Advances to top 40 of BQ
Senator Burnham -Adv to Semis of Senate
Linzy -Finishes top 60 LD
Ramey/Peacock finish 7-5 & Primm finishes BQ 3-3 (1 ballot off top 60)
Shemwell & VanYperen finish strong in extemp
Supplemental events tomorrow!
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Thatโs a wrap for the MSHSAA debate season, Grace and Kiran lose a close round to a very talented Springfield Central team. An All-State finish senior year though is so incredible! Weโll be back together for the Speech events!
Super excited to congratulate Mallory Chapman and Ciara Keenan on taking 1st place in Reg Public Forum at the Raytown Varsity Last Blast Invitational! Great job ladies!!
In conclusion of the Grain Valley Varsity tournament- Kora and Sabrina take 3rd place in CPF and Liberty takes 1st place out of 26 schools in the overall tournament championship. Great team effort all around.
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We started with 26 of the best debaters in the state. Linzy and Burnham advance to the top 8 of Lincoln Douglas and are competing now for a spot in the semifinals later tonight.
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NSDA Congress & Big Questions District
*Denotes National Qualifier
Big Questions-King 1st*, Primm 3rd
Senate-Burnham 1st*
IX-Shemwell qualifies w/ Burnham vacating his spot.
Heart of America District Student of the Year-Linzy
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Two great finishes today for the Blue Jay Debaters in finals of debate. Second place in Champ PF is Rand Brown and Kaylen King and second place in novice policy is Richard Burns and Caroline Shemwell! Waiting on two more debaters thoughโฆ letโs go Mallory and Ciara!
If you were wonderingโฆ Liberty is still busy doing work at Willard!
DI Results - 1st Place De La Cruz
DUO Results - 2nd Place Dow/Chapman, 3rd place Rieger/Ferguson
CLD Results - 4th Place King &
Linzy is currently debating in Semi-Finals!
Advancing to Novice Quarterfinals at Blue Springs South!
LD - Ellie Primm, Kate Ornelas
PF - Eric Rotert & Orian Middleton
AND, all other novice debaters had at least 1 win in their first tournament! Be proud Jays!
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In conclusion of a fantastic weekend, several winning records and a couple trophies- thatโs a wrap! Congratulations on a second place finish for Kiran Deol and Grace Guillaume in Public Forum at Ray-Pec!
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Varsity traveled to Leeโs Summit West today and also had fantastic results! (1 of 2)
Info:
Ella Torno: 5th
Meg Rieger: 3rd
Andrew Letsch: 4th
Kora Wiedmaier: 2nd
Congress: Bela Sullivan: 6th
Duo: Rand Brown & Patrick Sheeley 2nd
Original oratory: Grace Fisher 1st
Linzy finishes LD tonight with a 3rd place state, all state finish! Through Districts and State on whether or not the Supreme Court ought to have term limits, Linzy was 34-4 on ballots. Speech events start in the morning for Burnham and Linzy!
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Elinor Dow had a goal to try debate this year and worked tirelessly on learning LD and developing her craft. It is with great enthusiasm I can congratulate her on winning Lincoln Douglas at the Novice Leeโs Summit North Tournament!
Liberty Debaters (amongst 5 events) are either starting their first round or finishing it up. Keep the vibes up yโall! Great start for the first day of competition!
Fantastic opening weekend in the books for the novice debaters! Everyone won at least 1 round and this competitive sophomore, Lydia Kahassai, took 3rd place in her first Lincoln Douglas tournament.
Linzy finishes 3rd place in Lincoln Douglas to conclude a great weekend. Also a phenomenal 2nd place out of 27 schools for the Blue Jays! As the kiddos are saying โMISS MATERIAL GORLโ. Good job kiddos!
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MSHSAA Districts Debate Results:
* Denotes State Qualifier
Lincoln Douglas
Ethan Burnham 3rd Place*
Liv Linzy 2nd Place*
Public Forum
Deol/Guillaume 3rd Place*
Chapman/Keenan 2nd Place*
Policy
King/Ensor 5th, Burns/Shemwell 6th, Peacock/Menges๐ (Honorary)
1st Place Team Sweeps
Advancing to Semifinals at UCM:
HI-Hand
DI-Wheeler,De La Cruz,Price
INFO-Torno,Bates
DUO-Hand/Fisher,Chapman/Dow, Rieger/Ferguson
OO-Wheeler,King,Fisher,De La Cruz, Vallier
POI-Chapman,Torno,Sola
USX-Linzy,King,Comegys
IX- Ramey
Debate, IDA, Radio are still cooking
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Congratulations to Senator Ethan Burnham on a tremendous semifinal finish in the US Senate! While heโs at the hotel, we await supplemental events which are still underway. More to come Jays!
Congratulations Rand and Patrick for winning the Oak Grove Varsity Invitational as well as to the Liberty Team for 1st place overall sweepstakes! Today took all of us. This was a true display of teamwork and dedication.
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Two sharper thinkers competed in day two of Extemp debate today- in a field of 1040 entries.
Linzy finished in round 6 among the top 206.
Shemwell finished in round 10 of 23 debaters. T-14th for placement.
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MSHSAA State Update: Burnham loses on a 2-1 and finishes T-4th with all state distinction. Linzy punches her ticket into the semifinals and has one more round to finish the evening. Good luck Linzy!
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Itโs been a rush of a day and itโs still cooking but to include some updates- qualifying to state in Public Forum is Guillaume and Deol + Chapman and Keenan (waiting to debate finals) and qualifying in Lincoln Douglas is Ethan Burnham and Liv Linzy (waiting to debate finals) ๐ฅณ
NSDA District Debate Results
*Nat qualified
CX- Shemwell/Burns 1st*, Bixler/VanYperen 2nd*, Rathore/Petty 3rd*
PF- Comegys/Rotert & Peacock/Ramey - district finalist & alternate to nationals
LD- King- district finalist & alt to nats
Team sweepstakes- 1st place
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With 66 competitors in the field, Liv Linzy is leading the charge into Lincoln Douglas Quarterfinals! Proud of you kiddo! Your work ethic these past few weeks has been astounding. Soak it up!
Liberty Speech and Debate travels to Van Horn (novice) and William Chrisman (varsity) for the Independence Winter Classic. Soak it up kiddos!
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It was a great day of debate for Liberty, we learned a lot and know what to improve on. 4th place in LD for Elinor, 4th place PF for Andrew and Evan and 4th place for Caroline and Kennedy. Great work!!
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This dynamic duo knows that hydration and cardio are the keys to succeeding in a debate tournament marathon- moving on to round 7- Champ Public Forum Finals
Springfield Central Varsity Breaks
HI- A. Hand
DI- Wheeler, Dow
DUO- Chapman/Dow
POI- Torno, Chapman, Sola
OO- A. & I. Vallier, King
INFO- Bates
IX- Shemwell, VanYperen
SC- Burnham, Peacock
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Belton 6 Round Throwdown Novice Results- Bella Vansell finishes 2nd out of 32 LD debaters as well as bringing home the highest school win percentage when combining all school entries.
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A huge congratulations to the following finalists at Leeโs Summit North-4th place US Extemp Lydia Kahassai, 1st place Dramatic Interp Sophia Sola, 1st place Humorous Interp Isabelle Porter, 1st place Storytelling Eli De La Cruz
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NSDA Student Congress and Big Questions Districts Results:
*denotes national qualifier
House of Representatives
Sullivan 4th*
Peacock 8th
Senate
Burnham 2nd*
Big Questions Debate
King 2nd*
Letsch 3rd
Ramey 4th
Linzy 6th
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Results at William Chrisman Novice
DUO: Tempest/Dolton- 1st
INFO: Magera- 4th, Fisher- 2nd
PROSE: Dolton- 2nd place
USX: Primm- 4th
CX: Petty/Lanzone- Advance to Semifinals on a 3-0
Debate Quarters Breaks at UCM Varsity
RPF- Peacock/Ramey
CLD- King
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Congratulations to Andrew Letsch, Ethan Burnham, Ciara Keenan & Mallory Chapman on fantastic 4th finishes at Grain Valley!
Kora Wiedmaier & Sabrina Menges continue on to semi-finals of Champ PF! Letโs do this!
Liberty Varsity Debate moving on to quarterfinal rounds at Grain Valley:
Champ LD -
Ethan Burnham
Reg LD -
Andrew Letsch
Champ PF-
Mallory Chapman and Ciara Keenan
Kora Wiedmaier and Sabrina Menges
Soak it up kiddos!!
They started the year with philosophical games and working on the art of persuasion. Today these two, Caroline Shemwell & Kymon Warman debated six rounds of policy debate (9 hours!) and finished 7th place! Great work Jays!
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