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This year’s Glenbrooks, the first third tier tournament of the year in the National Points Race, attracted 101 competitors and Marshall Webb of Saint Mary’s Hall (TX) was this year’s champion. Webb, who was the top extemper at the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational last month, won the tournament by five ranks over Brian Xu of San Marino High School (CA).
Trinity Preparatory School (FL) had another impressive showing at a major national circuit event, placing three of its extempers in the final round. Nathaniel Saffran, the winner of the New York City Invitational last month, placed third, National Points Race leader Justin Graham took fourth, and Varun Bhatia finished fifth.
Webb will receive 100 points in the National Points Race as a result of his victory. He becomes the second extemper this year to win two national circuit tournaments. He also becomes the first Texas extemper to win the Glenbrooks since 2007, when Ian Panchevre of Tom C. Clark High School took the title.
Here are the results from the 2015 Glenbrooks (Click here for tab sheet):
Champion: Marshall Webb (Saint Mary’s Hall, Texas)
2nd: Brian Xu (San Marino High School, California)
3rd: Nathaniel Saffran (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
4th: Justin Graham (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
5th: Varun Bhatia (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
6th: Daniel Drane (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
Semi-Finalists
*Marshall Feingold (Syosset High School, New York)
*Jarrek Holmes (Kent Denver School, Colorado)
*Neil Patel (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Olivia Shoemaker (Lakeville North High School, Minnesota)
*Samhitha Sunkara (Ardrey Kell High School, North Carolina)
*Jacob Thompson (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
Quarter-Finalists
*Sam Buisman (Chanhassen High School, Minnesota)
*Austin Chen (Monte Vista High School, California)
*Daniel Gamboa (Cypress Bay High School, Florida)
*Shishir Jessu (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Jacob Levenson (Nova Senior High School, Florida)
*Nicci Mattey (Saint Mary’s Hall, Texas)
*Rushabh Mehta (Syosset High School, New York)
*Aaron Patel (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Christian Sayers (Valparaiso High School, Indiana)
*Marshall Sloane (Milton Academy, Massachusetts)
*Camila Tussie (Cypress Bay High School, Florida)
*Alicia Zhang (East Ridge High School, Minnesota)
Extemp Central thanks the Glenbrooks for posting the results of the tournament online.