Speech Team nabs 2nd at Mustang Classic

 
It was the Mustang Classic last weekend for the Jackson Hole High School Speech and Debate Team last weekend. The tournament is one of the season’s biggest and considered a tune-up for state finals in March. The Natrona County meet attracted 29 schools with over 500 total entries.
Jackson came in 2nd place in 4A just behind Cheyenne East. Thunder Basin took 3rd.
Congressional Debate was again good to the Jackson debaters. Junior Will Aepli (1st), junior Carter Worcester (2nd), sophomore Sophie Lamb (3rd), senior and team captain Josh Hansen (4th), and junior Lily Briggs (7th) dominated the event that attracted a meet-high 71 initial entries.
Worcester teamed up with junior Sarah Schweitzer in Public Forum Debate where the duo came away with 2nd place after moving through the preliminary rounds undefeated. The pairings of Briggs and Aepli, along with Hansen and fellow team captain Preston Harmon, finished with a solid 3-1 record, tying for 5th place. Lamb also boasted a 3-1 record in Lincoln Douglas Debate, tying for 5th in the category as well.
Hansen went on to place 2nd in Impromptu Speaking. Schweitzer reached the semifinals of Extemporaneous Speaking. Worcester teamed up with sophomore Bohdan Barnett in Duo Interpretation as well. Sophomores Blanca Sartillo Mejia and Julieta Anaya also teamed up in the event. The two pairs barely missed the semifinal round of the event tying in 12th place overall out of a field of 43 entries.
Anaya and Sartillo Mejia also both reached the semifinals in Poetry Interpretation. This was the second biggest event in the tournament with 54 entries.
Co-coach Londe Gagnon said, “Students needed to be near perfect in preliminary rounds to advance. The scores many of our team earned would have advanced them to culminating rounds at any other tournament of the season.”
 

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