New Albany Tournament
We want to congratulate our friends at New Albany on an amazing first
tournament.  You did such a great job!  Thank you for your hospitality.
 We can't wait to come back next year!!
The Sweet Sixteen!!
This was by far the most fun we've had at a tournament in a long time.  The team banded
together for a come from behind victory that none of us thought was possible.  But with 10
Individual Event Wins and the placings you see below, we hope it will be a while before anyone
says we only win because of a "numbers game".
RESULTS

PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE
2nd Place - Kaya Massey & Zach Shurden
Quarterfinalists - Michael Chancellor & William Wild

VARSITY LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE
1ST PLACE - KRISTEN GREER
Semifinalist - Melvin Smith

NOVICE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE
Quarterfinalist - Jared Keys
Quarterfinalist - Wade Maloney

VARSITY EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
5th Place - Blakely Owens
6th Place - Kaya Massey
Semifinalist - Kristen Greer
Semifinalist - Melvin Smith
Semifinalist - William Wild

NOVICE EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING
1ST PLACE - STEVEN WILD
Semifinalist - Hope Hathorn
Semifinalist - Kent McCarty

DRAMATIC INTERPRETATION
1ST PLACE - MICHAEL CHANCELLOR
2nd Place - Zach Shurden
5th Place - Hope Hathorn
Semifinalist - Wade Maloney

NOVICE PROSE INTERPRETATION
1ST PLACE - STEVEN WILD
3rd Place - Amber Taylor
6th Place - Taylor Herring
Semifinalist - Katelyn O'Quinn

VARSITY PROSE INTERPRETATION
1ST PLACE - MICHAEL CHANCELLOR
2nd Place - Paromita Mitra

EXPOSITORY SPEAKING
1ST PLACE - KRISTEN GREER
6th Place - Taylor Herring
Semifinalist - Kent McCarty
Semifinalist - Blakely Owens

IMPROMPTU SPEAKING
6th Place - Jared Keys
Semifinalist - Kaya Massey

STORYTELLING
2nd Place - Paromita Mitra
Semifinalist - Jared Keys
Semifinalist - Wade Maloney
Semifinalist - Amber Taylor

VARSITY POETRY INTERPRETATION
2nd Place - Michael Chancellor
3rd Place - Zach Shurden
5th Place - Wade Maloney
Semifinalist - Kaya Massey
Semifinalist - Blakely Owens

NOVICE POETRY INTERPRETATION
1ST PLACE - TAYLOR HERRING
5th Place - Amber Taylor
Semifinalist - Hope Hathorn
Semifinalist - Katelyn O'Quinn

HUMOROUS INTERPRETATION
2nd Place - Paromita Mitra
3rd Place - Michael Chancellor
5th Place - Jared Keys
Semifinalist - Wade Maloney

DUO INTERPRETATION
Semifinalists - Taylor Herring & Kent McCarty
Semifinalists - Katelyn O'Quinn & Amber Taylor

DECLAMATION
1ST PLACE - STEVEN WILD
5th Place - Jared Keys
6th Place - Kent McCarty

ORIGINAL ORATORY
1ST PLACE - BLAKELY OWENS
4th Place - Kristen Greer
5th Place - Melvin Smith

TELEVISION COMMENTARY
1ST PLACE - WILLIAM WILD
4th Place - Zach Shurden
Semifinalist - Paromita Mitra
1st Place
TEAM SWEEPSTAKES
Talk about having a good tournament.  
Before this weekend, sophomore Jared Keys
had not broken in any event.  But at New
Albany he broke in all five.
Sophomore Wade Maloney shows us what it
takes to get through a tournament.
Senior girls Kristen Greer and Hope Hathorn
pose on either side of sophomore Kent
McCarty as the team bonds in the student
lounge.
Senior Paromita Mitra takes a minute to
review her competition pieces before
competing in her first tournament this year.  
She's been busy becoming Miss Mississippi
Teen USA.
Socializing and meeting great students from
across the state is one of the many benefits to
being in Forensics.  Here OG Students are
entertaining themselves with students from
Murrah and Laurel Christian.
Seniors Kaya Massey, Paromita Mitra, Zach
Shurden, and Michael Chancellor smile for
the camera as they await the awards ceremony
to begin.
Tournament MVP
STEVEN WILD
Sophomore - First Year Member

1st Place - Novice Prose Interpretation
1st Place - Novice Extemporaneous Speaking
1st Place - Declamation

To say that Steven had a good tournament would be an understatement.  Steven won
more events than any other member of the OG team or anyone in the tournament.  He
also is only the fourth member of the OGHS team to ever win 3 events in one
tournament, and the first novice to ever do it.  The fact that a novice in his third
tournament was able to achieve such a remarkable goal is reason enough to make him
the team's MVP.  Maybe it really does run in the family.  The Wild's are now 2 for 2.

CONGRATULATIONS STEVEN!!!