2010 St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational: Narayanan and Sachdeva Split Titles

Over the weekend, extempers from Texas, Iowa, and Tennessee battled it out at the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational in Dallas, Texas.  The tournament allowed extempers to participate in International and United States Extemp categories and broke to quarter-finals this year.  In International Extemp, Akshay Narayanan of Plano Senior High School in Texas emerged victorious.  Nikki Sachdeva of Plano East High School in Texas won the United States Extemp portion.

Here are the results from the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational.  Thanks to Adam Johnson and local Texas sources, we are able to give you the results of the final rounds of International and United States extemp as well as the semi-finalists in each category.

International Extemp

Champion:  Akshay Narayanan (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
2nd:  Kimia Dargahi (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
3rd:  Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
4th:  Karthik Sastry (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
5th:  Nikki Sachdeva (Plano East High School, Texas)
6th:  Bushra Rahman (Alief Elsik High School, Texas)
7th:  Shikha Garg (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
8th:  Will Hoenig (Lake Travis High School, Texas)

Semi-Finalists

*Jennifer Conner (Plano West High School, Texas)
*Adam Williams (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
*Will Stewart (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
*Sara Wofford (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)

Quarter-Finalists

*Zachary Stone (Plano West High School, Texas)
*Waqas Haque (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Emily Guthrie (Westlake High School, Texas)
*Tim Dominguez (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Kayleigh Courard-Hauri (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*Jake Eberts (The Parish Episcopal School, Texas)
*Sanjana Puri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Megan Schippmann (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Maggie Solice (Hendrickson High School, Texas)
*Ariela Schnyer (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Joshua Yun (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Phillip Parmar (Alief Elsik High School, Texas)
*Blake Andrews (The Parish Episcopal School, Texas)
*Nick Lowrimore (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Catherine Chiodo (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)

United States Extemp

Champion:  Nikki Sachdeva (Plano East High School, Texas)
2nd:  Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
3rd:  Karthik Sastry (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
4th:  Shikha Garg (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
5th:  Neal White (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
6th:  Bushra Rahman (Alief Elsik High School, Texas)
7th:  Will Hoenig (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
8th:  Jennifer Conner (Plano West High School, Texas)

Semi-Finalists

*Catherine Chiodo (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*Tracy Frydberg (Winston Churchill High School, Texas)
*Emily Guthrie (Westlake High School, Texas)
*Nick Lowrimore (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)

Quarter-Finalists

*Sara Wofford (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Joshua Yun (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Brandon Mond (Plano West High School, Texas)
*Adam Williams (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
*Hamilton Millwee (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
*Sohail Shaikh (Plano East High School, Texas)
*Megan Schippmann (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Lindsey Butler (Hendrickson High School, Texas)
*Kimia Dargahi (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Akshay Narayanan (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Sanjana Puri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Will Stewart (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
*Tim Dominguez (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Waqas Haque (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Matthew Hinojosa (Flower Mound High School, Texas)

Extemp Central congratulates all of these extempers on their respective finishes.  The six extempers who will receive National Points Race points will be announced Tuesday afternoon.

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