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Monday, February 14, 2011
Pacific First in Northern California

Pacific Speech & Debate First In Northern California

This past weekend (2/10-2/13, 2011), Pacific Speech and Debate travelled to Santa Rosa Junior College to compete against 27 other schools from around Northern California (and some Southern California schools as well). At the end of the weekend, Pacific Speech and Debate was first overall in school sweepstakes as well as in Open Parliamentary Debate. Of special note is the debate team, Pacific BS (Robert Birlew & Manpreet Sandhu) who won the entire debate tournament as well as Emma Henry who received the Cynthia Sutherland Top Speaker award for the most points earned by a single student! It should also be noted that the Pacific Lincoln-Douglas Debate squad closed out the tournament taking First-Fourth! (Emma Henry, Richard Birlew, Mark Rauschmayer, & Robert Birlew, respectively).

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

School Sweepstakes

First University of the Pacific

Individual Sweepstakes

First Emma Henry

Parliamentary Debate Results

Team Placings

CHAMPION Pacific BS (Robert Birlew & Manpreet Sandhu)

Semi-Finalist Pacific HR (Emma Henry & Mark Rauschmayer)

Speaker Placings

Third Speaker Emma Henry

Sixth Speaker Mark Rauschmayer

Individual Events Results

Impromptu Speaking

Open Division

Champion Emma Henry

Finalist Mark Rauschmayer

Novice Division

Second Place Jacob Baumbach

Informative Speaking (Open Division)

Second Place Rachera Swan

Extemporaneous Speaking

Open Division

CHAMPION Robert Birlew

Second Place Emma Henry

Third Place Richard Birlew

Finalist Manpreet Sandhu

Novice Division

Finalist Jacob Baumbach

Communication Analysis

Third Place Rachera Swan

Thursday, November 11, 2010
Pacific earns third at own tournament!

This past weekend (November 5-7, 2010), University of the Pacific played host to 38 other schools from around the country. Over 400 students and 100 coaches were here and it was some intense competition. Rachera Swan did EXCEPTIONALLY well, winning more point for Pacific than some entire schools! Additionally, Pacific students were five of six finalists in the final round of Impromptu speaking even after having to compete against one another in both preliminary and semi-finals! Pacific debate teams also did well with the Novice team of Angela Chang & Cody Rommel taking second place in the entire tournament! Please join me in congratulating our students. Pacific—if we gave ourselves a trophy—would have place third overall for the entire weekend! A very nice accomplishment indeed.

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

Overall Swing Sweepstakes

(Third Place) University of the Pacific

Paul Winters Invitational

Overall School Sweepstakes

(Third Place) University of the Pacific

Overall Individual Sweepstakes

CHAMPION Rachera Swan

Open Division

Persuasive Speaking

Second Place Rachera Swan

5^th Place Emma Henry

Communication Analysis

Champion Rachera Swan

Impromptu Speaking

Second Place Richard Birlew

Third Place Emma Henry

4^th Place David Fisher

5^th Place Robert Birlew

6^th Place Manpreet Sandhu

Extemporaneous Speaking

Third Place David Fisher

5^th Place Emma Henry

6^th Place Richard Birlew

Semi-Finalist Robert Birlew

Informative Speaking

Third Place Rachera Swan

Parliamentary Debate

Octofinalist Pacific BF (Richard Birlew & David Fisher)

Octofinalist Pacific HR (Emma Henry & Mark Rauschmayer)

Double-Octofinalist Pacific BS (Robert Birlew & Manpreet Sandhu)

NFA Lincoln-Douglass Debate

Semi-Finalist Richard Birlew

Semi-Finalist Robert Birlew

Novice Division

Duo Interpretation

Finalist Angela Chang & Cody Rommel

Prose Interpretation

Finalist Angela Chang

Parliamentary Debate

Second Place Angela Chang & Cody Rommel

Mustang Invitational Results

Overall School Sweepstakes

Third Place University of the Pacific

Open Division

Informative Speaking

CHAMPION Rachera Swan

Persuasive Speaking

Second Place Rachera Swan

Novice Division

Prose Interpretation

CHAMPION Angela Chang

Monday, October 18, 2010
Pacific Takes Fourth at Double-Up

Pacific Debaters Take First & Second!

Squad Takes Fourth overall w/ only six debaters

On October 15, the Pacific Speech and Debate team travelled to Azusa Pacific University in Southern California to compete in two debate tournaments over three days. Against almost 40 schools from around the country, Pacific finished First and Second in LD Debate, Second in Debate Sweepstakes, and fourth in Overall Sweepstakes! This is a huge accomplishment given that Pacific only took six debaters to the tournament and other schools had MANY more students competing.

Of especially note are Emma Henry and Manpreet Sandhu who closed out the final round of the Open division of Lincoln-Douglas Debate and David Fisher who took second in the Junior division of LD! Pacific Speech & Debate next travels to Pleasant Hill for the Kevin Twohy Invitational on October 22-24.

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

Sweepstakes

Fourth Place Overall-University Division

Second Place Debate Sweepstakes

NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Open Division

Co-Champion (First) Emma Henry

Co-Champion (Second) Manpreet Sandhu

Junior Division

Second Place David Fisher

NPDA Debate

Open Division

Speaker Placings

9^th Speaker Richard Birlew

20^th Speaker Emma Henry

Team Placings

Octofinalist Pacific BF (Richard Birlew & David Fisher)

Octofinalist Pacific BS (Robert Birlew and Manpreet Sandhu)

Octofinalist Pacific HR (Emma Henry & Mark Rauchmayer)

Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Pacific Finishes Third in Opener

Pacific Finishes Third in Opening Tournament

On September 24-26, Pacific Speech and debate travelled to San Francisco to compete at the 2010 Golden Gate Season Opener. Competing at three tournaments over three days, Pacific students finished third overall out of 27 schools from three states. Of special note is David Fisher who finished first in Novice Impromptu in his first tournament ever. Also, students from Pacific finished 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, and 6^th out of all other competitors. Pacific next travels to UC, Berkeley to compete in the Golden Gate Invitational on October 1, 2010.

As always the following is intended for information purposes only and is not necessarily intended for publication.

Sweepstakes

Third University Division

Parliamentary Debate

Team Placings

Novice Division

Semi-Finalist Pacific FR (David Fisher & Cody Rommel)

Open Division

Quarter-Finalist Pacific KR (Chelsea Kelleher & Mark Rauschmayer)

Quarter-Finalist Pacific BH (Richard Birlew & Emma Henry)

Octofinalist Pacific KW (Alia Knight & Josh Ward)

Octofinalist Pacific BS (Robert Birlew & Manpreet Sandhu)

Speaker Placings

Novice Division

8^th Speaker David Fisher

Open Division

7^th Speaker Mark Rauschmayer

8^th Speaker Chelsea Kelleher

Individual Events

Extemporaneous Speaking (CCSF Tournament)

Open Division

CHAMPION Robert Birlew

2^nd Place Emma Henry

3^rd Place Richard Birlew

6^th Place Josh Ward

Novice Division

CHAMPION David Fisher

Sixth Place Cody Rommel

Extemporaneous Speaking (SFSU Tournament)

Open Division

2^nd Place Robert Birlew

4^th Place Josh Ward

Impromptu Speaking (CCSF Tournament)

Open Division

3^rd Place Richard Birlew

6^th Place Emma Henry

Impromptu Speaking (SFSU Tournament)

Open Division

6th Place Robert Birlew

7th Place Emma Henry

(All of the following are Open Division)

Informative Speaking (CCSF)

3^rd Place Rachera Swan

Informative Speaking (SFSU)

2^nd Place Rachera Swan

Communication Analysis (CCSF)

4^th Place Chelsea Kelleher

Persuasive Speaking (CCSF)

4^th Place Chelsea Kelleher