Glacier wins season's first speech meet
Glacier High School claimed its first victory of the season Saturday at the Kalispell Kickoff Speech and Debate Tournament.
The Wolfpack finished the day with 261 points, topping Flathead High School's 205 points and Missoula Sentinel's 78.
"We're pretty excited," Glacier head coach Greg Adkins said Sunday of his team's first win of the season. "It's what we hoped for and expected to happen. It's good to see us achieve what we thought we could do."
Glacier had five individual first-place victories, compared with Flathead's eight. At least two Glacier students finished in the top eight in every event.
"Our kids have the mindset that we can compete with anybody," Adkins said. "It's really changed over the last couple years from when they were freshmen and sophomores competing against everybody to now as juniors and seniors.
"They expect to win. That's the strength of our team."
Kalispell's Class AA schools completely dominated three events, with students from Flathead and Glacier taking the top eight slots in Memorized Public Address, Expository Speaking and Serious Oral Interpretation. A Flathead or Glacier student won every event but one, Novice Policy Debate.
Fourteen teams from eight schools had more than 280 entries in the tournament. In addition to Flathead and Glacier, the tournament included teams from Whitefish, Libby, Missoula Sentinel, Corvallis, Hamilton and University High School in Spokane.
Glacier and Flathead will face the state's other Class AA teams Friday and Saturday at the Bulldog Invitational in Butte. That includes meeting Bozeman for the first time this season; Adkins and Flathead head coach Kala Lougheed both expect tough competition from Bozeman.
Among the Class A, B and C schools competing at Kalispell Kickoff, Hamilton finished in first place, Corvallis in second and Libby in third. Local A and B teams continue or start their seasons Saturday in Polson.
Following are local individual results from the Kalispell Kickoff:
• Varsity Policy Debate - 1. Brigitte Baake and Kelsie Leu, Flathead; 2. Brianna Walling and Brandon Simpson, Glacier; 3. Ashley Berger and Andy Walling, Glacier; 4. Jasmine Carlson and Hannah Anderson, Flathead; 6. Bria Frame and Gabriel Meyer, Flathead
• Novice Policy Debate - 2. Levi Proctor and Zac French, Glacier; 3. Lauren Jones and Mariah Gladstone, Glacier; 4. Katie Anderson and Ellie Lapp, Flathead; 6. Jesse Francis and Jon Weatherly, Flathead; 7. Cameron Brown and Jon Allen, Flathead; 8. Raymond Symes and Cheyenne Rivera, Flathead
• Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate - 1. John Patrick, Glacier; 3. Mary Snipstead, Glacier; 4. Hunter Lapp, Flathead; 5. Emily Stoick, Flathead; 7. Zac Parker, Flathead; 8. Sam Watson, Flathead
• Novice Lincoln-Douglas Debate - 1. Serena Brosten, Glacier; 2. Izaak Castren, Glacier; 3. Hannah Wilson, Flathead; 4. Elliott Van Allen, Glacier; 5. Brittan Austin, Glacier
• Public Forum Debate - 1. Hannah Wahlert and Natalie Pursell, Flathead; 4. Sam Makman and George Milheim, Flathead; 6. Ariel Berg and Kyle Schmauch, Glacier; 7. Danielle Swartzenberger and Ben Robertson, Glacier
• Legislative Debate - 1. Kenzie Weber, Flathead; 2. Montana Ziglar, Glacier; 3. Melissa-Nichole Hermes, Flathead; 4. Connor Tice, Flathead; 5. Logan Warberg, Glacier; 7. Andy Wilson, Flathead; 8. Andora Tutvedt, Glacier
• Extemporaneous Speaking - 1. Maxine Sugarman, Flathead; 2. Quinn Maroney, Glacier; 3. Severn Crabtree, Flathead; 4. Abby Connolly, Glacier; 5. Josh Taira, Glacier; 6. Elena Musz, Flathead
• Impromptu Speaking - 1. Maxine Sugarman, Flathead; 2. Mary Snipstead, Glacier; 3. Jon Alan Osborne, Flathead; 4. Logan Warberg, Glacier; 5. Severn Crabtree, Flathead; 6. Tucker Connell, Glacier; 8. Elena Musz, Flathead
• Original Oratory - 1. Danielle Bowen, Flathead; 2. Abby Connolly, Glacier; 3. Tierney Strandberg, Flathead; 4. Juan Pablo Geraudan, Glacier; 5. Megan Larsen, Flathead; 6. Brittany Fischer, Glacier; 7. Lassidy Martin, Flathead
• Memorized Public Address - 1. Caroline Houser, Glacier; 2. Accacia Gardner, Flathead; 3. Tierney Strandberg, Flathead; 4. Dawson Lynch, Flathead; 5. Ilene Terry, Flathead; 6. Kaitlyn Turner, Glacier; 7. Christyne Hanson, Flathead; 8. Kayla Suvak, Glacier
• Expository Speaking - 1. Kayla Nelson, Glacier; 2. Sonya Brosten, Glacier; 3. Danyelle Moore, Glacier; 4. Tess Barker, Flathead; 5. Sara Christensen, Glacier; 6. Danielle Bowen, Flathead; 7. Megan McCauley, Flathead; 8. Cristine Boles, Flathead
• Duo Interpretation - 1. Clayton McDougall and Cory Markellis, Glacier; 5. Quinn Maroney and Caroline Houser, Glacier
• Humorous Oral Interpretation - 1. Kyle Decker, Flathead; 2. Clayton McDougall, Glacier; 3. Accacia Gardner, Flathead; 4. Danyelle Moore, Glacier; 5. Josh Taira, Glacier; 7. Natalie Griffin, Flathead; 8. Spencer Davis, Glacier
• Serious Oral Interpretation - 1. Natalie Griffin, Flathead; 2. Cory Markellis, Glacier; 3. Cassie Buchor, Glacier; 4. Accacia Gardner, Flathead; 5. Leanna Herbert, Flathead; 6. Amanda Frasier, Glacier; 7. Clayton McDougall, Glacier; 8. Sierra Herron, Flathead