Stuyvesant High School Speech Team

11/26/2018

Hello Stuy Speech! This is a long overdue post, but we have been killing it in these past few weeks in the fall of the speech season. Here’s a long list of results from the past two months.

Big Bronx Invitational,
where we went all the way to Bronx Sci to sleep all day between rounds in a kindergarten classroom:

Prose and Poetry:
William Lohier – 4TH!!!!!!!!!!!

······

Xavier,
the first ever tournament for many of our novices (!), where we all froze to death because they would not turn on the heat for us:

JVOI:
Stella Oh – Honorary Mention!
Celina Huynh – 7th!!!
Brian Zhang – 3rd!!!!!! *
Reilly Amera – 2ND!!!!!!!!! *

V Extemp:
Yi Lin Qiu – 8th!!!

VOI:
Jevina Wong – 2ND!!!!!!!! *
William Lohier – CHAMPION!!!!!!!!! *

······

Fordham,
another lengthy trip all the way to Bronx:

Declamation:
Kaylee Yin – 10th!!!

JVOI:
Roy Wu – 12th!!
Celina Huynh – 5th!!!!!
Brian Zhang – 4th!!!!!! *
Tolulope Lawal – CHAMPION!!!!!!!!! *

VOI:
Hedy Tung – 5th!!!!!

······

Interleague,
where we were NOT in our favorite bird school, Kellenberg, and continued to freeze to death:

JVOI:
Stella Oh – 11th!!
Meera Dasgupta – 6th!!!!!
Tolulope Lawal – CHAMPION!!!!!!!!! *

VOI:
Hedy Tung – 8th!!
William Lohier – CHAMPION!!!!!!!!! *

* indicates a half-qual for States!

Keep killing it, Stuy!! See you at Ursuline this weekend.

(And make sure to take pics and send to us to put up on this page!)

10/11/2018

Hello and a late-but-still-warm welcome to the 2018-2019 speech season, Stuy Speech!!
Back in September, we attended the tumultuous first tournament of the year at Yale University! There were marriages, lots of thai food, hotel gym practices, and tons of other . Here’s how we did:

POI:
William Lohier ‘19 — SEMIFINALIST!!!!!!(7th!!!!) *

We also had a good time on our home turf last weekend, at the JV Hugh McEvoy Stuy tournament! A few of our brave novices were able to put together pieces in a very limited amount of time, compete at the tournament, and learn loads! We are very proud of how they handled themselves. And here are the results:

JVOI:
Tolulope Lawal ‘21 — (one of two) CHAMPION(s)!!!!!!!! *

(* indicates a half-qual for States)

Coming up this weekend is the Big Bronx Invitational and soon after, the Xavier tournament! Stay tuned!

09/25/2018

If you are interested in auditioning for the Speech Team for the 2018-19 season, you can audition in room 627 THIS Thursday (9/27) or Friday (9/28). For your audition, you can perform either:

- A 1-2 minute monologue or script; does not need to be memorized. Put some thought into your delivery! Try not to bring in/read off of any random book.
-OR a 1-2 minute written speech/story about a surprising or interesting thing that happened to you this summer. You may bring in a paper, but make eye contact and don't read off of it entirely.

We look forward to seeing your performances! Show us what you like and what you think you're good at. Good luck to all. :)

09/21/2018

Hey guys, if you’re thinking about trying out for the Speech team, come to the speech and debate interest meeting today in the theater and fill out this form:

Please fill out this short survey so that tryouts can run as smoothly as possible!!

08/27/2018

Just two months ago, Stuy Speech (and Congress!) trekked all the way to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for some beach pics. But here’s how we did at Nationals 2018!

PROGRAM ORAL INTERPRETATION:
William Lohier ‘19 — Octofinalist!!!!! (Top 60 in the NATION!)

As the beginning of the next season continues to draw closer, the team would just like to thank and say goodbye to all of our graduated seniors: Karen Chen, Nathan Li, Leila Storkamp, Jen Yu, and Barnett Zhao (and Augie Murphy!!). Come back to judge! ❤️

And with that, stay tuned for our results at the first tournament of the year: the Yale Invitational!

06/03/2018

Today the Stuyvesant Speech and Debate team celebrated its 34th Annual Convocation, with performances by Karen Chen ('18 / OO), Thomas Chen ('20 / Dec), Emily Xu ('19 / Info), Jevina Wong ('20 / Prose), and William Lohier ('19 / Poetry). We had a blast eating our seniors' cake, giving out superlatives, stalling for time for a certain coach to arrive, and listening to our head coach Ms. Sheinman's end-of-the-year poem! Here were some of the highlight Novice Awards:

Tolu Lawal '21 — Novice of the Year (Interp)
Nicole Zheng '20 — Novice of the Year (Dec)
Alice Ni '20 — Novice of the Year (Extemp)
Reilly Amera '21 — Team Cutie & Most Persistent
Jackie Lin '20 — Most Improved

With all that said, we wish good luck to our three Speech competitors at Nationals!!

Chelsea Cheung '19 — Original Oratory
William Lohier '19 — Program Oral Interpretation
Emily Xu '19 — Informative Speaking

PC: Isaac Rose-Berman

05/28/2018

Stuy Speech has been SLAYING at the last few tournaments of the season!

At the State tournament, the last ever tournament for several of our members and the first ever state tournament for even more, the Speech team heavily enjoyed the yodeling of Katrine Kryzhanovsky ('19) and doing run-throughs while exercising in the gym! Here are our results:

ORIGINAL ORATORY:
Chelsea Cheung '19 — Honorable Mention!
Emily Xu '19 — Quarterfinalist!

DECLAMATION:
Thomas Chen '20 — Quarterfinalist!
Jevina Wong '20 — Quarterfinalist!

JUNIOR VARSITY ORAL INTERPRETATION:
Maggie Xu '20 — Quarterfinalist!
Tolu Lawal '21 — 5TH!!!!!
Jevina Wong '20 — 2ND!!!!!!!!!!

Overall, the team ended the state season as 3rd place in sweepstakes!!

This weekend, our six qualifiers (plus our team captain, Karen Chen ('18)) explored Washington D.C., listened to speeches through the curtains of cubicles, took pictures of a picture of Obama, stole a pitcher of lemonade, and got turnt to, as one of the greatest thinkers of our generation, Katy Perry, once said... "Swish swish, bish." Shoutout to former Extemp Captain Teresa Chen ('15) for judging for us! Here are our results from NCFLs:

ORAL INTERPRETATION:
William Lohier '19 — Semifinalist!!!!!

With all of that, there's only one more tournament left for this season! Stay tuned for our post!

03/25/2018

Stuy Speech had an amazing time at the final local tournament of the season: The Mickey Kullen Last Last Last Chance Last Chance Tournament at Regis High School! Several of our members completed their qualifications to States. Here are our results:

JUNIOR VARSITY EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING:
Ryan Alwi '20 — 3rd!

DECLAMATION:
Jackie Lin '20 — 3rd!
Nicole Zheng '20 — 2nd!! *

VARSITY ORAL INTERPRETATION:
Nathan Li '18 — 2nd!! *

ORIGINAL ORATORY:
Shray Tripathi '19 — CHAMPION!!!!! *

(* indicates a half-qual to States!)

Stay tuned for our results at the last three tournaments of the year: States, NCFLs, and Nats!

03/18/2018

Today, Stuy Speech competed on our home turf once again at two tournaments: Mini-Stuy (for our JV-ers!) and the NYCFL Grands Qualifier! We had a great time slaying while waiting for our lunch to arrive!!

Here are our results from Mini-Stuy:

DECLAMATION:
Jackie Lin '20 — 3RD!!! *

(* indicates a half-qual to States!)

Here are our results from the Grands Qualifier:

DUO INTERPRETATION:
Reilly Amera '21 & Nathan Li '18 — 8th!

DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE:
Chelsea Cheung '19 — 5TH! *

ORIGINAL ORATORY:
Karen Chen '18 — 7th! (Alternate!)
Emily Xu '19 — 2ND!!!! *

ORAL INTERPRETATION:
Tolu Lawal '21 — 10th!
Katrine Kryzhanovsky '19 — 5TH! *
William Lohier '19 — 2ND!!!! *

DECLAMATION:
Jevina Wong '20 — 2ND!!!! *
Thomas Chen '20 — CHAMPION!!!!!!!!! *

(* indicates a qualification to the Grand National Catholic Forensics Tournament in Washington, D.C.!)

Overall, we received 2ND PLACE in the team sweepstakes!!!!!!!!! (Although we originally tied for first place with Regis High School based on point values.) We also tied with Regis for most qualifiers to Grands (though we lost based on total number of qualifying bodies).

Our team captain, Karen Chen ('18), was also nominated for the Fr. Rippon Scholarship!

The end of this Speech season is drawing near! Let's kill it, Stuy!

03/04/2018

Five of the Stuy Speech juniors made it over to Syosset High School this morning to compete at the NYC Districts tournament, and after some bizarre judges and tiring rounds, we were able to bring back successful qualifiers for the NSDA tournament happening in Florida this June! Here are our results:

HUMOROUS INTERPRETATION:
Chelsea Cheung '19 — 3rd!!!

PROGRAM ORAL INTERPRETATION:
William Lohier '19 — 2ND!!!!! *

INFORMATIVE SPEAKING:
Emily Xu '19 — CHAMPION!!!!!!!!! *

ORIGINAL ORATORY:
Emily Xu '19 — 5th!
Shray Tripathi '19 — 3rd!!!
Chelsea Cheung '19 — CHAMPION!!!!!!!!! *

(* indicates a qualification to Nationals!)

Stay tuned for the last few local tournaments and the Grand National Qualifier happening AT Stuyvesant in two weeks.

02/25/2018

The Speech team did really well at Regionals at Regis yesterday! Several of our members received a full-qualification to States:

ORIGINAL ORATORY:
Barnett Zhao '18

JUNIOR VARSITY ORAL INTERPRETATION:
Maggie Xu '20

VARSITY EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING:
Ben Platt '19

JUNIOR VARSITY EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING:
Caroline Magoc '20
Alice Ni '20
Yi Lin Qiu '20

02/22/2018

Stuyvesant Speech had a lovely time at the prestigious and now INTERNATIONAL tournament that is the Harvard Invitational. We had some great support from our team members. Here are our results!

PROGRAM ORAL INTERPRETATION:
William Lohier ‘19 — Quarterfinalist!!

ORIGINAL ORATORY:
Shray Tripathi ‘19 — Double-Octofinalist!
Barnett Zhao ‘18 — Double-Octofinalist!
Karen Chen ‘18 — 6TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shoutout to Kevin Li (‘18) for being in the photo with a Lincoln-Douglas Debate bowl!