Ryan Bennett Wins Hockaday Invitational
DALLAS, Tex. — The twenty-seventh annual Hockaday Speech & Debate Invitational was held this Friday and Saturday. The tournament drew one hundred competitors across the varsity and novice Lincoln-Douglas pools, with debaters from Dallas, Houston, and beyond. The final round featured Southlake Carroll High School’s Ryan Bennett and Northland Christian School’s Josh Overton. In the round, Ryan bested Josh to take the tournament’s title. Congratulations to both debaters! (Coaching credits and extended results follow.)
Ryan is coached by Eric Melin and Diane Forbes. Josh is coached by Kevin Roberts, Sam Duby and Dylan Clewis.
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OCTAS
Southlake Carroll RB def. Colleyville Heritage RS (Rahim Sayani)
Colleyville Heritage KA def. Marcus VH (Vivian Ho)
Northland Christian JO def. Marcus JN (John Noble)
Greenhill DS def. Plano PC (Ping Chu)
Northland Christian TC def. RL Turner CG (Charuta Gavankar)
Grapevine EA def. Northland Christian RL (Rachel Lanier)
Grapevine WH def. Plano TL (Thomas Lorinc)
Northland Christian CN def. Plano Senior AR (Aneesh Rai)
QUARTERS
Southlake Carroll RB def. Northland Christian CN (Courtney Nunley)
Grapevine WH def. Greenhill DS (Danielle Smogard)
Grapevine EA def. Northland Christian TC (Thomas Carmichael)
Northland Christian JO def. Colleyville Heritage KA (Khurram Ali)
SEMIS
Southlake Carroll RB def. Grapevine WH (Will Hix)
Northland Christian JO def. Grapevine EA (Emily Allen)
FINALS
Southlake Carroll RB def. Northland Christian JO (Josh Overton)
CHAMPION
Southlake Carroll RB (Ryan Bennett)
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Posted from: 66.108.94.165
November 11th, 2007 16:16
Congratulations, Ryan and Josh! And yay to Team Grapevine as well. (I received a text message from a one Jane Boyd referencing the famous red boots, so if she was there, I trust they made an appearance.)
Posted from: 24.215.130.4
November 11th, 2007 16:24
Congratz Josh!
Posted from: 75.6.208.109
November 11th, 2007 16:28
Nice job Ryan and Josh.
Congrats to Grapevine and Northland Christian for strong showings.
Posted from: 205.134.251.132
November 11th, 2007 17:07
[...] Hockaday: Southlake Carroll’s Ryan Bennett defeats Northland Christian’s Josh Overton. [...]
Posted from: 69.151.106.148
November 11th, 2007 17:08
damn, pretty close to a gvine close out, looking forward to seeing you kids at the glenbrooks
congrats ryan bennett on being a badass.
Posted from: 68.92.63.9
November 11th, 2007 18:45
Congrats to the NCS crew for a great showing. Congrats to Rachel, Courtney and TCar on breaking. Special congrats to Josh on a great run and an incredible 1AR in Semis.
Congrats to Katie James who finished 2nd in Stu Co and 1st in DX.
Congrats to Mr. Bennett on a great run as well to the GVINE crew.
Thanks again to Stacy/Tom/Stef for spending hours and hours putting the tournament together. We had a wonderful time!
Posted from: 69.253.230.13
November 11th, 2007 19:57
‘grats emily
Posted from: 69.134.16.205
November 11th, 2007 20:05
Congrats to EAllen and Whix
Posted from: 69.151.106.148
November 11th, 2007 20:05
for those interested. i have created a TOC scoreboard similar to the one of ‘05-’06. it includes every tournament (i believe) to date, who picked up bids, as well as an area denoting who has 2+bids or are autoqualled from last year. while some think that ‘bid-counting’ is a bad nuance of the activity, i think it’s safe to say that competitiveness is just as valuabe as education when it comes to debate, and this acts as a reference tool for those who are wondering about the status of others around the country.
the url is
ldscoreboard.blogspot.com
for those with any questions, or objections, feel free to email me at:
quinnolivarez@gmail.com
Posted from: 69.134.16.205
November 11th, 2007 20:09
Finally!
3. Shasin Choksi (Hillsborough, ??)
4. Arjun Chandran (Cary, ??)
Hillsborough is CA
Cary is NC
Posted from: 69.151.106.148
November 11th, 2007 20:19
haha, i forgot, huge congrats to NCS for tearing it up in dallas, you guys have been ballin this year see you guys at GBN
Posted from: 68.48.175.11
November 11th, 2007 20:42
Wow, great job to Ryan and Eric, and to the NCS Duby-is Crew!
Posted from: 76.187.124.229
November 11th, 2007 23:07
SLCRB FTW!
Good job all! I’m really proud of Emily for making it to semis after an especially hard turn around right after Florida.
Also, I debated Plano TL in the octas round; Cynthia Wei was not in attendance >.
Posted from: 76.187.124.229
November 11th, 2007 23:13
That is, not in attendance at my octas round. Although she should have been. It was lots of fun. I quoted Homer Simpson.
Posted from: 68.117.53.139
November 12th, 2007 20:31
Nice Job to all UNTers who broke and mad props to Bennent for winning.
Posted from: 98.199.179.122
November 13th, 2007 00:34
congrats ryan, josh, will, and emily!