On February 26, fifteen Myers Park students traveled to Chase High School in Forest City to compete in the Trojan Invitational. Despite having only fifteen contestants, the team took SECOND place at the tournament, beating rival team Marvin Ridge. Here are the students who placed in their respective events:

Patrick Withrow – CHAMPION, SPAR Debate

Lane Fagan – 2nd Place, Original Oratory

Isabel Williams – 2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking

Daniel Guerrero – 2nd Place, Lincoln-douglas Debate

Lane Fagan – 3rd Place, SPAR Debate

Hannah Wang – 4th Place, Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Amit Jain and Tarini Paleru – 5th Place, Public Forum Debate

Also, congratulations to Priyang Shah, who won 1st place in House 1 at the Carolina West District Congress, thereby qualifying to the NFL National Tournament in Dallas this June. It’s official, Myers Park will be represented at Nationals, and hopefully many more qualifiers will follow Priyang at the district tournament in a few weeks.

Anyone interested in attending CFL Quals at Phillip O. Berry Academy this Saturday need to sign up RIGHT NOW on the tournament signup page.

On February 5, 33 MP students travelled to Southside High School in Greenville, SC for the last showdown of the season between North and South Carolina. With an incredible burst of team spirit, NC was finally victorious as Myers Park took home the coveted FIRST PLACE Southside “Tiger Trophy”. The mustangs were victorious over previous champions Riverside HS by a considerable margin of 20 points, as they accumulated a grand total of 86 for the tournament. Here’s everyone who placed, in their respective events:

Jason Fuller & Robert Havelka – CHAMPIONS, Public Forum Debate

Taruni Paleru & Jake Lampke – 2nd Place, Public Forum Debate

Mike Griggs & Ashley Thomas – 2nd Place, Duo Interpretation

Isabel Williams – 2nd Place, Impromptu Speaking

Bernadine Pierre and Meghan Dorn – 2nd Place, Extemp Duo

Ketan Chokshi – 2nd Place, Student Congress

Hannah Wang – 2nd Place, Novice Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Lane Fagan and Jake Raynor – 3rd Place, Extemp Duo

Jake Raynor – 3rd Place, Radio Speaking

Patrick Withrow – 4th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking

Patrick Withrow – 4th Place, Impromptu Speaking

Jay Merritt – 4th Place, Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Isabel Williams- 5th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking

Roma Sonik – 5th Place, Novice Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Mike Griggs – 7th Place, Humorous Interpretation

Mike Griggs – 8th Place, Oral Interpretation

Sibley Fillette – 9th Place, Oral Interpretation

One week after the Southside Invitational, the Public Forum team of Porter Nenon and Lauren Wiggins travelled to the Duke University Blue Devil Classic to compete against a challenging field of 20 experienced PF teams. They made it all the way to the semifinal round before falling to NCSSM, so please congratulate them on this accomplishment!

This weekend 28 MP debaters will travel to Boston for the Harvard National Tournament… check back for daily updates as the weekend goes on!