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Grady Is Going to Nationals…Again!

Stephanie Styles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:15:21 +0000

Its been two weeks since the Georgia Northern Mountain District Tournament, the qualifier for the National Forensic League Tournament during this upcoming summer. No one had posted anything about Grady’s latest success in all this chaos:

Policy: John Holland & Minh Lam, Holden Choi and Michael Barlow

Public Forum: Michael Robinson & Lucas Bailey

Lincoln Douglas: Stephanie Styles, Tyler Olson

Original Oratory: Scott Bremer, Demarius Walker

Duo Interpretation: Hannah Mitchell, Wesley Powell

Humorous Interpretation: Matt Ward

Dramatic Interpretation: Taylor Walker

International Extemp: Damon Melton

United States Extemp: Leith Meador

We also had many team members qualify for the Catholic Forensic League National Tournament that will be in May during Memorial Weekend [in Albany, NY; nice, huh]. Those qualifying to Grand Nationals are:

Policy Debate: John Holland and Michael Barlow

Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Stephanie Styles

Original Oratory: Scott Bremer

Dramatic Interpretation: Hannah Mitchell, Hannah Snowden, Wesley Powell

Extemporaneous Speaking: Emily Atkinson, Damon Melton

Public Forum Debate: Michael Robinson and Lucas Bailey

As a happy side note, the entire speech and forensics team looks forward to the new hair styles our wonderful coaches will be sporting very soon, courtesy of our many students heading to nationals.

Barkley Forum Information

Mario Herrera — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:00:34 +0000

This weekend we will be attending The Barkley Forum. The tournament is quite different from other Georgia tournaments, so I want to make sure details are known. Student attending include: Stephanie Styles, Tyler Olson, Emily Atkinson, Scott Bremer, Matt Ward, Taylor Walker, Hannah Snowden, Hannah Mitchell, James Holland, John Holland, Michael Barlow, Erin Dabbs, Kaylin Morton, JP Patterson, Grayson Blake, Lucas Bailey and Mike Robinson. This is a TWO DAY tournament (at miminum), meaning students will need to get to the tournament on Friday. WE WILL NEED PARENTS FOR DROP-OFF AND PICK UP!! Here is a break-down of event locations: Policy Debate will be held at Georgia State. Public Forum will be held at Druid Hills HS. All IE’s, Duo, Congress and LD will be on the Emory University Campus. Here are directions to the BF, Georgia State parking instructions and the parking letter and pass for Emory University. Here is the parent permission form If you would like to see the schedule, go to www.joyoftournaments.com and look for January 23-25 and then “Barkley Forum.” You will see a link that says “Schedules.” Click on this and look for the appropriate event. And, as always, call if you have any questions.

Mike and Lucas in Finals

Brandon Sheats — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:08:21 +0000

In between our Po’ Boys and Gumbo, Senior Mike Robinson and Sophomore Lucas Bailey advanced to the final round in Public Forum! They’re competing against Montgomery Academy.

Life, Peachy-Results, Sweet

Mario Herrera — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:20:59 +0000

The Peach has never been sweeter...

Hello to all! This weekend, we will be attending the largest speech and debate invitational in Georgia. Carrollton High School/Carrollton Middle School will co-host the Peach State Classic this Friday and Saturday, November 21-22, 2008. We are taking 86 students to the tournament! Policy debaters will leave from Grady HS at 2:30pm on Friday. Those students in Dramatic Interp, Humorous Interp, Duo Interp, Extemporaneous Speaking, Original Oratory, Impromptu, Prose/Poetry, Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Public Forum Debate will leave from the Eighth Street parking lot at 6:30am. Students should arrive at 6:15am. Cost is $10.00. This information is also on the parent permission forms. If you child is in policy debate, then you want download the permission form by clicking here. If your child is any other event, click here for that permission form. Let’s go get ‘em!

Rather than have a long list that goes on forever, results are listed as a normal post, with events in caps and in bold. POLICY DEBATE: Kenny Cochran and Sharon Moore, Octofinalists in Novice; John Holland and Michael Barlow, Quarterfinalists in Varsity; Lauren Scott and Jasmine Burnett, Semi-finalists in JV; Ben Dean and Holden Choi, Finalists in JV; Ngoc Vu, 5th place Speaker in JV. PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE: Jonathan Patterson and Grayson Blake, Quarterfinalists; Ben Power and Nick Miller, Quarterfinalists; Kaylin Morton and Erin Dabbs, Co-Champions; Mike Robinson and Lucas Bailey, Co-Champions. LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE: Zak Fields, Co-Champion in Nov

An Autumn Argument- The Results

Mario Herrera — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:47:52 +0000

Sequoyah Stars

This weekend we are attending the “Autumn Argument” at Sequoyah High School in Canton, GA. We have 30 students attending, and I know someone is bound to forget it, so here is the Sequoyah permission slip. Pertinent information regarding the tournament can be found if you scroll down a little bit more.

Mario

Results from the tournament:

Varsity Policy Debate-

9th place Speaker- Ngoc Vu

Lincoln-Douglas Debate-

3rd place: Markeith Conley

2nd place: Tyler Olson

1st place: Lucas Bailey

Public Forum-

1st place: Jonathan Patterson/Grayson Blake

Duo Interp-

2nd place: Laquitta Pearson/Kourtney Outlaw

1st place: Wesley Powell/Hannah Mitchell

Humorous Interp:

3rd place: Wesley Powell

2nd place: Matt Ward

1st place: Hannah Snowden

Dramatic Interp-

3rd place: Marius Jackson

2nd place: Taylor Walker

1st place: Hannah Mitchell

Original Oratory-

2nd place: Jake Simonds-Malamud

1st place: Scott Bremer

Extemporaneous Speaking-

3rd place: Leith Meador

2nd place: James Holland

1st place: Emily Atkinson

Impromptu-

2nd place: Emily Atkinson

1st place: Scott Bremer

Grady Sweeps Debate and Speech Divisions at Northside!

Brandon Sheats — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:45:37 +0000

Winner of Individual Events and Debate Sweepstakes

Extemp

3rd – James Holland
2nd – Emily Atkinson
1st – Scott Bremer

Dramatic Interpretation

2nd – Matt Ward
1st – Laura King

Original Oratory

2nd – Willamae Bolling
1st – Scott Bremer

Impromptu Speaking

3rd – James Holland

Lincoln-Douglas

3rd – Stephanie Styles
2nd – Tyler Olson
1st – Demarius Walker

Public Forum Speaker Awards

9th – Ben Power
8th – Nick Miller
7th – Zoe Hamilton
6th – Jonathan Patterson
4th – Lucas Bailey
2nd – Mike Robinson

Public Forum Team Awards

3rd – Nick Miller & Ben Power
2nd – Mike Robinson & Lucas Bailey

Policy Debate Speaker Awards

Junior Varsity Speakers

2nd – Ben Dean

Varsity Speakers

8th – Jasmine Burnett
5th – Lauren Scott
2nd – John Holland
1st – Michael Barlow

Varsity Team Awards

Quarterfinalists- Lauren Scott and Jasmine Bennett

Quarterfinalists- Michael Barlow and Ngoc Vu

Semi-finalists and Richard B. Russell All State Bid winners- John Holland and Holden Choi

Novice Team Awards

Semi-Finalists- Samantha Chiang and Maragh Girvan

Northside HS Participants

Mario Herrera — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:24:29 +0000

Per parent request, here is a list of students attending the tournament this weekend, October 24 and 25, at Northside HS in Warner Robins, GA. Also, here is the link to the permission form for the tournament.

Ollie Aberle-Grasse,

Jennifer Alexander

Emily Atkinson

Lucas Bailey

Michael Barlow

Mac Barrineau

Willamae Boling

Scott Bremer

Eve Brown

Austin Burch

Jasmine Burnett

Samantha Chiang

Holden Choi

Markeith Conley

Dylan Coyle

Ana Cunningham

Molly Daniel

Ben Dean

Zak Fields

Maragh Girvan

Kahlil Griffin

Asha Haki-Tyler

Zoe Hamilton

Shanise Hodges

James Holland

John Holland

Andrew Jackson

Marius Jackson

Brad Jessup

Taylor Jones

Marquis Junior

Laura King

Max Kocsissozucs

Scottie McWilliams

Leith Meador

Damon Melton

Nick Miller

Sam Moore

Hai Nguyen

Lukas Olson

Tyler Olson

Kourtney Outlaw

Jonathan Patterson

Laquitta Pearson

Myers Pierce

Ben Power

Mike Robinson

Jordan Ross

Lauren Scott

Perth Silver

Jake Simonds-Malamud

Stephanie Styles

Ngoc Tran

Audrey Vaughn

Ngoc Vu

Joss Wakamo

Demarius Walker

Matt Ward

Queen White