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James Enochs High School hosted the 2014 California High School Speech Association (CHSSA) State Tournament on April 25 through April 27 at James Enochs High School in Modesto. The tournament was cumulative. In International Extemp, Rohan Deskmukh of Carlsbad High School won his school’s first extemp state championship since at least 2003 by defeating Asher Kalman by three ranks. Alex Ye of Gabrielino High School , who won International Extemp at this year’s James Logan High School MLK Invitational (a TOC qualifier), placed third. Defending champion Rohan Dhoopar of Bellarmine College Preparatory, who was a participant at this year’s Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin, was knocked out in the semi-finals.
In United States Extemp, Brian Yu of Monte Vista High School successfully defended his state championship, and won the tournament by four ranks over Ankur Mahesh of Bellarmine College Preparatory. Yu was this year’s California Invitational winner and he becomes the third California extemper since 2003 to win the United States Extemp category twice. Jonas Trevethan of Turlock High School finished third.
Six of the extempers in the final rounds of the tournament were non-seniors, and have earned automatic qualifications to next year’s Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University. They are indicated in italics in the results listing.
Here are the results of the 2014 California High School Speech Association State Tournament (Click here for tab sheet):
International Extemp
Champion: Rohan Deshmukh (Carlsbad High School)
2nd: Asher Kalman (Miramonte High School)
3rd: Alex Ye (Gabrielino High School)
4th: Brandon Ye (Dougherty Valley High School)
5th: Charles Michael Hinman (Miramonte High School)
6th: Alex Doan (Bellarmine College Preparatory)
7th: Yue Lu (Dougherty Valley High School)
Semi-Finalists
*Clayton Becker (Claremont High School)
*Rohan Dhoopar (Bellarmine College Preparatory)
*Daniel Ginsburg (Miramonte High School)
*Rohith Kuditipudi (The Harker School)
*Brandon Miller (James Enochs High School)
*Nadia Perl (Bishop O’Dowd High School)
*Kevin Prabakhar (Bellarmine College Preparatory)
*Nikhil Sharma (Carlsbad High School)
*Javion Sun (Schurr High School)
*Neil Tagare (Bellarmine College Preparatory)
*Jack Wright (Yuba City High School)
United States Extemp
Champion: Brian Yu (Monte Vista High School)
2nd: Ankur Mahesh (Bellarmine College Preparatory)
3rd: Jonas Trevethan (Turlock High School)
4th: Bryan Yuan Wang (Miramonte High School)
5th: Charlie Liao (Monte Vista High School)
6th: Anubhav Sarkar (Leland High School)
7th: Luiza Coelho (Carlsbad High School)
Semi-Finalists
*Alex Gao (Oxford Academy)
*Ethan Hu (Leland High School)
*Sai Sumana Kaluvai (Granite Bay High School)
*Donghun Kang (Leland High School)
*Pratyush Panda (Dougherty Valley High School)
*Prithvi Rajasekaran (Rocklin High School)
*Blair Rohring (Carlsbad High School)
*Dylan Rudolph (Sierra Canyon School)
*Omkar Savant (Bellarmine College Preparatory)
*Benjamin Sher (Dublin High School)
*Eileen Tan (Gabrielino High School)
Extemp Central thanks the California High School Speech Association for putting the results of the tournament online.