January 2013

The new year brought the Cal Lutheran Invitational, into which our students strode confidently, and from which our students viagra online cheap emerged victorious.  Kudos claimed three of the top four finishes http://www.whereslloyd.com/cls in novice Public Forum, with the teams of Michelle Jeon and Lauren Song, and Julie Wang and Jenny Li finishing as semi-finalists, and the team of Jeffery Jen and Celena Chen taking home the championship.  Additionally, Jax Rounds received the top speaker award in this event, and the 4th speaker award for all of Public Forum, including both novice and open divisions, a remarkable feat for an 8th grader going up against high school competition.  Kudos also won novice LD, thanks to Audrey Lam‘s dominant debating, and had a semi-finalist as well, in Stanley Yu.  Audrey’s brother, Nathan Lam, finished 2nd in open LD, and George Hou, as half of a hybrid team, won open Policy.

But our kids also achieved great success in the speech events, with Edison Wong and Caty Szeto finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively in novice http://www.ejsmith.com/ Extemp, Stanley Yu and Melinda Guo finishing 3rd and 6th respectively in open OO, and Jenny Li pulling out 6th place in novice OO, as a 6th grader, in her very first tournament!