Eagan Results

Lakeville Debate had another successful weekend at the Eagan Wildcat Invitational. Next week we go to Apple Valley, where we will be competing against students from across the U.S. for highly coveted marble apples.

At Eagan, Varsity students had an excellent showing and received four of the top five places. Second went to Christian Keil (LSHS '09), third to Wes Brand (LSHS '11), Fourth to Catherine Eichmann (LNHS '10) and Fifth to Jayant Tripathy (LNHS '11). Christian also received fourth speaker.

Several of our novices competed in JV for the first time and did extremely well against more experienced debaters. Yaphet Getachew (LNHS '12) and Leema John (LSHS '12) both had 4-2 records and Jacqueline Schmitt (LSHS '12) was the third place speaker.

In novice, Ruthie Nelson (LSHS '12) placed as eighth speaker and Grace O'Brien (LSHS '12) placed as fourth speaker. Rafi Garnighian (LSHS '12) had a 4-2 record.

In Public Forum, Steven Elliott (LNHS '10) was fifth place speaker and Karen Zhou (LNHS '10) was fourth place speaker.