Allison Huberlie Wins Woodward Second Year Championship
Sumi Sinha Wins Woodward Novice Championship
Woodward finalists Caroline Yachan and Allison Huberlie
VBD will have full results from both divisions posted soon, but in the meantime, we’re pleased to congratulate the four finalists of Woodward Academy’s Second Year and Novice National Championships!
In the second-year division, Bishop Guertin’s Allison Huberlie defeated Lake Mary’s Caroline Yachan to win the tournament title. Meanwhile, in the novice division, New Hampshire faced Florida once again: Sumi Sinha of Bishop Guertin defeated Steven Campisi of Lake Highland to win her division’s title. A great job by all four debaters!
Allison and Sumi are coached by Maureen DeBlasio and Bruce Miller. Caroline is coached by Erin Woods. Steve is coached by George Clemens.
Results can be found below. A photo of the novice finalists appears above the partial novice results. Full results - courtesy of Liz Eggleston, Julia Lovett, and Sonia Sujanani - are forthcoming.
PARTIAL OCTAS
Lexington SS advances without debating
Lynbrook JK advances without debating
Celebration KA advances without debating
Lake Highland NK advances without debating
Bishop Guertin AH def. Lexington CK (Chrissy Kugel)
3-0 (Fr. Raymond Hahn, Alicia Tolani, Greg Eback)
Bishop Guertin IF def. Cary Academy SN (Swapanthi Nagulpally)
2-1 (Matt Scarola, Cyndy Woodhouse, *Josh Marshall)
Lake Mary CY def. Lexington MC (Micki Chernick)
3-0 (Fr. Raymond Hahn, Alicia Tolani, Greg Eback)
Spanish River EP def. Sandalwood BV (Bronson Veale)
2-1 (Matt Scarola, Cyndy Woodhouse, *Josh Marshall)
QUARTERS
Bishop Guertin AH def. Celebration KA (Kelsey Averill)
2-1 (Matt Scarola, Glenn Prince, *Steve Schappaugh)
Bishop Guertin IF def. Lexington SS (Sonia Sujanani)
2-1 (Alicia Tolani, Josh Marshall, *Greg Eback)
Spanish River EP def. Lynbrook JK (Jon Kwan)
Lake Mary CY def. Lake Highland NK (Najeeb Khuda)
SEMIS
Bishop Guertin AH over Bishop Guertin IF (Isabelle Figaro)
Lake Mary CY def. Spanish River EP (Eric Perelman)
3-0 (R.J. Pellicciotta, Josh Marshall, Matt Scarola)
FINALS
Bishop Guertin AH def. Lake Mary CY (Caroline Yachan)
3-0 (Steve Schauppaugh, Glenn Prince, G. Eback)
CHAMPION
Bishop Guertin AH (Allison Huberlie)
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TOP SPEAKERS
1. Najeeb Khuda (Lake Highland, FL)
2. Eric Perelman (Spanish River, FL)
3. Allison Huberlie (Bishop Guertin, NH)
4. Isabelle Figaro (Bishop Guertin, NH)
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Woodward novice finalists Sumi Sinha and Steven Campisi
NOVICE FINALS
Bishop Guertin SS def. Lake Highland SC (Steven Campisi)
2-1 (Steve Schauppaugh, G. Eback, *Glenn Prince)
NOVICE CHAMPION
Bishop Guertin SS (Sumi Sinha)
TOP SPEAKERS
1. Sumi Sinha (Bishop Guertin, NH)
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Sumi Sinha Wins Woodward Novice Championship”
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Posted from: 136.242.122.83
April 3rd, 2005 21:13
Congratulations Allison and Caroline! To be in the second year of debate and have 3 and two bids respectively is really amazing.
Posted from: 136.242.122.83
April 3rd, 2005 21:23
also, as she is an alumni of the Hamilton-Stevens VBI Night at Westwood, I am especially proud of Caroline
Posted from: 143.229.132.226
April 3rd, 2005 21:27
Congratulations to Allison, Caroline, Sumi, and Steve: four extremely talented, extremely dedicated, and extremely awesome debaters and people.
Steve provided a very vocal, “fair and balanced” check on my political statements during modules and downtime at VBI last summer. (”Fair and balanced” in the Fox News mold, of course.)
This latest win just confirms that Allison is a MACHINE. Congratulations! (Maybe she can provide a middle ground politically between me and Steve at camp this summer?)
Posted from: 24.44.230.238
April 3rd, 2005 21:47
Congratulations Jason and Evan, it is too bad about what happened. You guys are the greatest anyway.
Posted from: 68.192.190.207
April 3rd, 2005 21:56
Congrats to Steve, who owned me like no other at Princeton!
Posted from: 63.19.170.43
April 3rd, 2005 23:49
Congratulations is in order for all the students this weekend. I was amazed at the quality of students in both novice and JV. Both final rounds were highly competitive and close–I enjoyed judging and the decisions took a while to make. This was one of my most enjoyable tournaments of the year!
Congrats to Bishop Guertin for winning both divisions. Mrs. Deblasio is doing a great job with that program.
This age group of kids is the future of the activity and the future looks awesome.
Posted from: 67.124.253.110
April 4th, 2005 00:05
mad props to eric perelman from spanish river
schappaugh is a beast and his kid is deserving of this success
Posted from: 209.233.196.11
April 4th, 2005 00:08
congrats to finalists. shout-out to allison. she’s intense.
Posted from: 128.59.231.229
April 4th, 2005 06:01
yay allison!!
Posted from: 131.229.177.243
April 4th, 2005 08:22
Congrats Caroline - your success this year has been wonderful, but I am sure that you will only build upon it in the future. :-)
Posted from: 24.88.76.229
April 4th, 2005 08:57
Congrats to all 4 finalists. Judging finals was a most excellent experience for me. Congrats to Bishop Guertin for winning both divisions. I look forward to seeing some of you all at VBI this summer…you can infiltrate the PF/Parli side for a bit to say hi. :)
Posted from: 128.220.251.100
April 4th, 2005 09:22
Congrats to Najeeb and Steven from Lake Highland…I promise to return cases on time in the future! :)
Posted from: 65.11.23.128
April 4th, 2005 09:59
big congrats to allison and caroline.
i was able to watch both jv finals and novice finals, and was really surprised at the skill level of the nov finals…steve and sumi could have owned over many of the kids in the JV pool as well.
Posted from: 205.196.188.100
April 4th, 2005 10:40
yay caroline u badass
Posted from: 24.44.225.6
April 4th, 2005 12:08
Great job Allison and Sumi! I’ve debated Sumi and she’ll be next year’s BG 2nd year machine for sure.
Posted from: 207.172.73.154
April 4th, 2005 14:27
congratulations to both sumi and allison. especially sumi, who put up with my pre-octos shenanigans and then calmly and cooly proceeded to beat my ass in probably the best round i’ve ever had. also, congratulations to schappaugh for getting through that entire octos round without killing me.
Posted from: 69.165.243.138
April 4th, 2005 14:35
that was probably because he was sleeping. he’s been known to do that.
Posted from: 64.12.116.203
April 4th, 2005 14:38
Big, huge congratulations to my novice, Sumi. I know we can expect *big* things from her!
Also, congrats to my teammate Isabelle for helping prep for both final rounds. Next time, we’ll hit in finals, not semis!
This was an awesome tournament with some great competition; congrats to Steve and Caroline as well!
Posted from: 207.172.73.161
April 4th, 2005 14:50
Congrats go out to Sumi and Allison for doing a kickass job. And also to everyone from my team who made Woodward such a great experience for me. Craig, thanks for the comment but it’s so not true. We were both sufficiently pwned at this tournament. I think at this point we just have to see how Shrenil fares at the Midwest Novice Championships. Sumi, I guess if I had to drop to someone it might as well have been to you, what does that bring us to… 1-1? I’ll have my revenge, you can count on it. Just dont’ leave anymore of your cases lying around eh? Well… congrats to all I’m off to write cases for March/April.
P.S. Craig, Vader totally outweighs Yoda in every single possible way
Posted from: 24.44.230.238
April 4th, 2005 16:13
Ouch gabe, what about our round??? And Jason is so wrong!!! Back me up on this people, and by people I mean Jon, Yoda beats the shit out of Vader. He is jsut the emporers bitch!!! Honestly, emporers bitch or the Wise One, you decide.
Posted from: 207.172.73.154
April 4th, 2005 19:01
i would have to go with yoda. he wins from myriad angles.
1.) powers: yoda can do whatever vader can, plus he can jump like a hyperactive flea on an enourmous quantity of speed.
2) lines: vader is boring, all he ever says is pretty straightforwardly evil. with yoda, you get the excessive verbosity and random sentence structure which we as debaters do so love.
3) i buy the “emporers bitch” extension off the yoda side of the flow.
4)standards: when one weighs using the appropriate standard of “yoda rocks and generally pwns vaders stiff plastic ass” yoda clearly achieves this standard better due to the above extensions from the YPVC (yoda pwns vader constructive)
Posted from: 143.229.132.226
April 4th, 2005 19:03
Jason — Darth Vader is Emperor Palpatine’s servant. Yoda serves no one but the Force. At best, Mace Windu is Yoda’s equal, because he is the spokesperson of the Jedi Council. But in any case, Vader is certainly not Palpatine’s equal. He’s his apprentice. And he’s intimidated by him. (”The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am.)
Moreover, as we see in Return of the Jedi, he’s not even the *ideal* apprentice…Palpatine would rather have Luke (”A New Hope”) rather than Anakin (”The Chosen One”). To quote Yoda himself, “much to learn, you still have.” ;o)
That said, Vader is easily as cool a character as Yoda (sorry, Craig), and I totally disagree with Gabe’s assessment about his dialogue relative to Yoda’s. However, I’d be the first to point out that Yoda has the most inspirational line in the saga, which comes in an exchange with Luke in The Empire Strikes Back:
L: I don’t believe it.
Y: *That* is why you fail.
I admire this dorktastic conversation. It’s as wonderfully nerdy as a similar conversation I had with RTHamilton and Fabien Thayamballi this past weekend at CBI, and a trivia contest featuring questions thrown at us by Greg Ihrie and Joe Hsu. Only 44 more days until Revenge of the Sith….
May the Force be with you!
(And now, back to your regularly scheduled debate post.)
Posted from: 24.44.230.238
April 4th, 2005 21:04
Jon- You disappoint me Mr.Cruz. What a weasly way to appraoch the argument. They are equally cool. Blech. Take a stance!!!
Posted from: 143.229.132.226
April 4th, 2005 21:09
Dude, it’s a balance neg. Or whatever. ;o)
Posted from: 205.188.116.10
April 5th, 2005 15:30
Congrats to Allison and Isabelle, you guys rock!! I’m so bummed we couldnt be there : (
Posted from: 68.198.153.246
April 7th, 2005 15:53
Haha, I feel Craig is right about Yoba, the little green guy rules. Also Good job to all the debators who did well at Woodward.
Posted from: 143.229.132.226
April 7th, 2005 17:14
*fanboy cough* Yoda.
Posted from: 69.142.209.230
April 15th, 2005 09:35
That Steve kid is my hero! Getting up in front of Session I @ VBI and screaming “Screw the flaming liberals!” took the most balls I think anything has ever taken before. He truly set the bar.