Off Broadway Swing at Hofstra University & Semester Recap!

That’s a wrap for the first semester of the 2024-2025 forensics season!

This past weekend we went to the gorgeous Hofstra University to compete in the annual Off Broadway tournament! This was a swing so we competed in both the Saturday and Sunday portions of the tournament. Pictures and results are below!

For the Saturday portion of the Off Broadway Swing, we had students compete in both the speech and debate parts of the tournament.

For the speech half,
ADS, Camsey, 2nd
Extemp, Will 4th
Poetry, Alex, 5th

For IPDA debate, we had 2 bronze medalists/semifinalists!
Juan & Matt!
& Bridget was 3rd place IPDA speaker!

For team awards, we won 3rd place for IPDA sweeps

The Sunday portion of the Off Broadway Swing results are below!
ADS, Camsey, 1st place champion!
Extemp, Will, 4th
Info, Camsey, 4th
Prose, Camsey, 4th, Holly, 5th
Poetry, Alex, 5th

For Sunday, the team competed in Parliamentary debate and we had 2 teams – Bridget and Juan & Matt and Matt (who debated solo)
For parliamentary, Bridget and Juan won 2nd place overall!
For speaker points,
Juan was 3rd place speaker
Bridget was 1st place champion!

For team awards, they were 2nd place for debate and 4th place for combined sweepstakes!

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The team had an amazing first semester of competition. We had an insanely successful recruiting season and have welcomed 20 novices onto the squad! We went to numerous tournaments over the course of the semester including the Virginia is for Lovers tournament at James Madison University, the Dutchess Community College and Seton Hall SNAFU tournaments, and the Off Broadway swing. We also had Camsey compete in an asynchronous tournament where they won 6th place in ADS! We also hosted our annual OchoIE tournament which was a huge success! A few of the returners participated in various community service events at Phillipsburg High School over the course of the semester as well. We caught up with a our very special alumni at different tournaments like Yazdan, Jordan, Saeed, Ben and Danny! Busy busy busy, but what a great end to a great semester!

Happy holidays and we will see you all next year when the semester & season starts up again! 🙂