St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational: Huff Completes First Sweep Since 2005

This weekend at the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational, Dillon Huff, who finished third in last year’s Extemp Central National Points Race, swept the International and United States extemp tournaments. This is the first time this has been done since Alex Stephenson accomplished the feat in 2005. The pair of victories give Huff three victories in the tournament over the last two years, as he won the International extemp portion of the tournament last year as well.

Here are the results from the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitiational.  Thanks to Adam Johnson, 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.

Foreign Extemp:

Champion: Dillon Huff (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
2nd:  Gabi Barahona (Spring High School, Texas)
3rd: Mirza Germovic (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
4th: Sam Scott (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
5th: Shahid Ahmed (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
6th: Kara Tapangan (Harlingen South High School, Texas)

Semi-Finalists
*Stephen Hurt (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Karthik Sastry (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
*Richard Holland (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Haydn Forrest (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Kalyan Venkatraj (A&M Consolidated High School, Texas)
*Ali Mavrakis (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Shikha Garg (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Kat Leung (Albuqerque Academy, New Mexico)
*Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)

United States Extemp:

Champion: Dillon Huff (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
2nd: Haydn Forrest (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
3rd: Shahid Ahmed (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
4th: Sam Scott (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
5th: Amy Chen (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
6th: Shikha Garg (Plano Senior High School, Texas)

Semi-Finalists
*Ali Mavrakis (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Kat Leung (Albuqerque Academy, New Mexico)
*Aaron Lutkowitz (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
*Amelia Martin (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*Shan Hang Devan (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Kimia Dargahi (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Mirza Germovic (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*Scott Hancox (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Scott McWilliams (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Max Ellis (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)

Extemp Central will calculate the points for the individuals in the IX and USX portions of the tournament and will release who are the six who will receive points in the National Points Race by tomorrow evening.