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Pat Donovan Wins Second NDCA Championship

posted by Jon Cruz on April 20th, 2009

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Glenbrook North High School’s Patrick Donovan, who closed out the 2008 National Debate Coaches Association Championships with then-teammate Jon Posner, won the NDCA title in his own right this weekend after defeating Greenhill School’s Tanya Thanawalla in the final round. Congratulations to both finalists!

Pat is coached by Greg Malis, Ari Parker, Mike Roytman, Jeremy Schifberg, and Christina Tallungan; Tanya is coached by Aaron Timmons and Neil Conrad.

Congratulations are also in order for New Trier High School. The team of Joey Glickman and Zach Collins and the team of David Walchak and Joe Eichenbaum closed out the final round of Public Forum debate and the four debaters were accordingly declared NDCA co-champions.

Joey, Zach, David, and Joe are coached by Linda Oddo and Michael Greenstein.

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE

(9) Greenhill EC (Ed Culham)

QUARTERS
(1) Glenbrook North PD def. (8) Meadows NS (Nate Socolof) 3-0
(7) Mountain Brook CB def. (2) Meadows AS (Amanda Signorelli) 2-1
(6) Greenhill TT def. (3) Blake EL (Erik Legried) 3-0
(5) Meadows JL def. (4) Wayzata FP (Francesca Parente) 3-0

SEMIS
(1) Glenbrook North PD def. (5) Meadows JL (Jordan LaMothe) 3-0
(6) Greenhill TT def. (7) Mountain Brook CB (Carter Beilen) 3-0

FINALS
(1) Glenbrook North PD def. (6) Greenhill TT (Tanya Thanawalla) 3-0

NDCA CHAMPION
(1) Glenbrook North PD (Pat Donovan)


TOP SPEAKERS
1. Amanda Signorelli — The Meadows School (NV)
2. Erik Legried — The Blake School (MN)
3. Francesca Parente — Wayzata High School (MN)
4. Nate Socolof — The Meadows School (NV)
5. Jordan LaMothe — The Meadows School (NV)
6. Tanya Thanawalla — Greenhill School (TX)
7. Pat Donovan — Glenbrook North High School (IL)
8. Carter Beilen — Mountain Brook High School (AL)
9. Lizzie Ernstberger — Mountain Brook High School (AL)
10. Sean Nadel — Harvard-Westlake School (CA)

PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE

SEMIS
(1) New Trier GC def. (4) Green Valley RY (Brittney Regal & Leah Yaffe) 3-0
(2) New Trier WE def. (3) Gig Harbor UF (John Uehlin & Dan Fox) 2-1

FINALS
(1) New Trier GC and (2) New Trier WE close out.

NDCA CO-CHAMPIONS
(1) New Trier GC (Joey Glickman & Zach Collins)
(2) New Trier WE (David Walchak & Joe Eichenbaum)

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17 Responses to “Pat Donovan Wins Second NDCA Championship”

  1. VBD: High School Debate, Lincoln-Douglas, Policy, Public Forum
    Posted from: 67.205.7.31

    April 19th, 2009 01:37
    1

    [...] NDCA Championships — Coverage Six Rounds of Spring — Finals: Hunter College’s Alex Bores defeated Arthur L. Johnson’s Alex Castro on a 3-0 decision. [...]

  2. Ford Hayes
    Posted from: 75.161.236.132

    April 19th, 2009 13:48
    2

    Wayzata FP is 4-1, dropping round 5.

  3. spirtos
    Posted from: 128.135.193.134

    April 19th, 2009 20:39
    3

    all meadows kids are 5-2

  4. Andrew C
    Posted from: 32.176.195.174

    April 20th, 2009 16:53
    4

    What about Justin?

  5. ctheis
    Posted from: 75.134.132.74

    April 20th, 2009 19:04
    5

    From what I have heard finals was GBN PD over Greenhill TT.

  6. test
    Posted from: 75.25.130.115

    April 20th, 2009 23:16
    6

    test

  7. Jon Cruz
    Posted from: 98.14.255.196

    April 20th, 2009 23:54
    7

    Congratulations on your second title, Pat!!

  8. Jrob
    Posted from: 76.219.139.225

    April 21st, 2009 00:54
    8

    congrats tanya and pat!

  9. Ilya
    Posted from: 72.130.134.87

    April 21st, 2009 01:18
    9

    congrats pat and jordan

  10. Jay
    Posted from: 24.7.92.133

    April 21st, 2009 03:49
    10

    Pat was really impressive each time I saw him. Congrats!

  11. gary
    Posted from: 70.138.99.19

    April 21st, 2009 11:16
    11

    congrats pat

  12. Vidur
    Posted from: 76.202.210.185

    April 21st, 2009 17:23
    12

    Huge congrats to PD!

  13. mezzatesta
    Posted from: 69.105.99.19

    April 22nd, 2009 02:13
    13

    nicely done pat

  14. Daniel Khalessi (Mountain View DK)
    Posted from: 24.6.158.21

    April 22nd, 2009 12:12
    14

    Congrats Pat!

  15. BRichardson
    Posted from: 69.2.82.154

    April 23rd, 2009 09:24
    15

    congrats carter and lizzie!

  16. Kamil Merchant
    Posted from: 66.27.100.34

    April 25th, 2009 23:37
    16

    Congrats to Zooch and Glickman (not that either of you check VBD, haha) and the rest of the NT crew!

    also, congrats to PD for defending his title!!

  17. edubs
    Posted from: 64.105.9.98

    April 26th, 2009 16:13
    17

    uber congrats to zooch glickman/ little joe and david! i am so jealous of u! also well done pat!

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