Cd'A Charter, Lake City win big at speech, debate contest
Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy took first place in the Thomas S. Foley Memorial Tournament for speech and debate held Feb. 2-4 in Spokane. Charter won first place, Large School Division. Back row, from left: Madeleine Durkin, Lydia Bardwell, Josie Golebiewski, Sienna Hepworth, Chase Kennedy, Quinten Heaton, Alex Mroczko, Emilia Delaune, Oskar Hepworth, Daniele Scafidi, Sebastian Baker and Jackson Hermsmeyer. Front row, from left: Mira Crawford, Justice Puckett, Anthony Donnelly, Lynda LeBlanc, Tracey Vaughan, Elisa Bright, Jayden LaVecchia, Lauren Holecek and Darby Puckett. Not pictured: Finn …
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Lake City Speech and Debate team members pose before getting on the bus at 11:30 p.m. Feb. 4 after a three-day Thomas S. Foley Memorial Tournament and almost 34 hours of competition. The students won third place in the Large School Division. Coach Caleb Drechsel holds the students' hard-earned third-place plaque while students flash their “bling.”
Speech, debate and honors French and Spanish students from Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy and Lake City High School fared well at the three-day Thomas S. Foley Memorial Tournament held Feb. 2-4 at University High School in Spokane Valley.
Twenty schools from four states brought 201 competitors. Those competitors competed in as many as six different debate and speech formats, with a total of 526 entries held across 28 events.
Coeur d'Alene Charter won the first place Large School Division trophy, a first for the program. Charter's foreign language students engaged in the International Diplomacy competition, where they discussed issues and policies in their chosen language, no English spoken. Charter students took eight of the top 10 places.
LCHS placed third in the Large School Division, missing second place by a mere four points.
Foley Tournament individual results, Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy:
• Finn Bailey — Second place, International Diplomacy
• Sebastian Baker — Ninth place, International Diplomacy
• Lydia Bardwell — Seventh place, International Diplomacy
• Mira Crawford — Ninth place Open Lincoln Douglas Speaker, eighth place International Diplomacy
• Emilia Delaune — Semi-finalist Open Public Forum, second place After Dinner Speaking
• Anthony Donnelly — Ninth place Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Speaker
• Madeleine Durkin — 10th place Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Speaker
• Josie Golebiewski — Sixth place After Dinner Speaking, first place Oral Interpretation
• Quinten Heaton — Fourth place Open Public Forum Speaker, quarter-finalist Open Public Forum (Maverick), third place International Diplomacy, second place Duo Interpretation
• Oskar Hepworth — Fourth place, International Diplomacy
• Sienna Hepworth — Fifth place, International Diplomacy
• Jackson Hermsmeyer — Sixth place Open Public Forum Speaker, semi-finalist Open Public Forum, second place Duo Interpretation
• Jayden LaVecchia — Fourth place Champs Congress, finalist Thomas Foley Award
• Alex Mroczko — Quarter-finalist Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas
• Darby Puckett — Sixth place Open Lincoln Douglas Speaker, quarter-finalist Open Lincoln Douglas, finalist Open Impromptu, finalist Open Oratory, finalist Open Congress
• Justice Puckett — Fourth place Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Speaker, Semi-Finalist Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas
• Daniele Scafidi — First place International Diplomacy
Foley Tournament individual results, Lake City High School:
• Rowen Lair — Third Place, After Dinner Speaking
• Harry Eddington, Xanaia Dahlstrom — Novice Congressional Debate finalists
•Xanaia Dahlstrom — Novice Top Presiding Officer
• Evan Riddle, Nolan Jarvis, Ryder Dearmin — Junior Varsity Congressional Debate Finalists
• Bradley Gilmore, Lucky Bork, Luke Sharon, Nathan Edmonds, Rowen Lair — Open (Varsity) Congressional Debate finalists
• Jack Kennedy — First place speaker and semifinalist in Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
• Rowen Lair, Zachary Anderson — Second place in Open (Varsity) Parliamentary Debate
• Eleanor Walsh, Lucky Bork — Semifinalists
• Lola Anderson, Isabelle Mcallister — Quarterfinalists
Parliamentary Debate placing speakers out of 25:
• Eleanor Walsh — Second
• Lucky Bork — Fourth
• Rowen Lair — Fifth
• Jessica Wilbanks and Sutter Smith — Quarterfinalists in Open (Varsity) Public Forum
• Luke Sharon — Fifth place speaker out of 31
• Rowen Lair — Second place Open (Varsity) Tall Tales
• Nolan Jarvis — Third place Open (Varsity) Tall Tales
• Zachary Anderson — Fifth place Open (Varsity) Tall Tales
• Xanaia Dahlstrom — Fourth place, Prepared Storytelling
• Gregg Biggs — Fifth place in Sales Speaking
• Anna Howard — Finalist, German International Diplomacy
