KENTUCKY HENRY CLAY DEBATES RESULTS

KENTUCKY TOURNAMENT HIGHLIGHTS

DARTMOUTH WINS CLAY FOR THE SIXTH TIME: TIES GEORGETOWN'S
ALL TIME RECORD FOR THE MOST WINS AS WELL AS TIEING MICHIGAN'S
RECORD FOR BACK TO BACK WINS

Dartmouth Georgetown
1983 (Koulogeorge and Gail) 1972 (Ziff and Jay)
1986 (Mahoney and Budner) 1974 (Ziff and Rollins)
1993 (Lovitt and Sklaver) 1976 (Ottoson and Walker)
1998 (Garen and Lehotsky) 1979 (Kirkland and Thompson)
2000 (Garen and Berger) 1982 (Barrett and Snyder)
2001 (Berger and Thorpe) 1991 (Kuswa and Arulananthan)

PROFESSOR KEN STRANGE PASSES PROFESSOR JIM UNGER OF GEORGETOWN
WITH THE MOST FIRST PLACE WINS IN THE HISTORY OF THE HENRY CLAY.
STRANGE HAS COACHED 6 FIRST PLACE WINNERS AND UNGER HAS COACHED 5.

HARVARD WINS PRE-SEASON NOVICE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

ALEX BERGER, DARTMOUTH UNIVERSITY, NAMED TOP SPEAKER

BERGER ALSO TIES THE RECORD OF ONLY FOUR OTHER DEBATERS WHO HAVE
WON THE CLAY TWO TIMES. THE OTHERS WERE BRADLEY ZIFF (GEORGETOWN),
MIKE SCHRANK (MICHIGAN), MATTHEW SHORS (MICHIGAN), AND ADAM
GAREN (DARTMOUTH).

MICHAEL KLINGER, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, NAMED TOP PRE-SEASON
NOVICE SPEAKER IN AMERICA: KLINGER ALSO BECOMES 1ST FRESHMAN TO
CLAIM A SPEAKER AWARD IN THE VARSITY TOP 5

THE 31ST ANNUAL HENRY CLAY DEBATES ENDED IN LEXINGTON ABOUT 2:00 A.M. ON TUESDAY MORNING WHEN ALEX BERGER AND BEN THORPE FROM DARTMOUTH COLLEGE WERE PRESENTED WITH THE 1ST PLACE HENRY CLAY DEBATE TROPHY. THE RUNNER-UP TROPHY WAS AWARDED TO STACY NATHAN AND DAN SHALMON FROM UC-BERKELEY, MARKING THE SECOND TIME THAT A TEAM FROM UC-BERKELEY HAS BEEN IN THE FINAL ROUND OF THE HENRY CLAY DEBATES. THE DECISION WAS 3-0 FOR DARTMOUTH.

THE RACE FOR THE PRE-SEASON NOVICE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ENDED AT 6:30 P.M. WITH THE PRESENTATION OF THE FIRST PLACE TROPHY TO HARVARD'S JORDAN PIETZSCH AND RACQUEL BRACKEN. THE RUNNER-UP TROPHY WAS PRESENTED TO SOUTHERN ILLINOIS' MIKE DUGGAN AND CAMERON GRANT.

VARSITY DOUBLE OCTA FINALS:

DARTMOUTH (BERGER AND THORPE) DEFEATED SOUTHERN CAL (SILVERMAN AND MACFARLANE) 3-0

NORTHWESTERN (FOSTER AND PAUL) DEFEATED WAKE FOREST (ENZER AND KNEUPPER) 3-0.

UC-BERKELEY (NATHAN AND SHALMON) ADVANCES OVER UC-BERKELEY (SINGH AND HARATANI.

DARTMOUTH (LEONG AND DESAI) DEFEATED FORT HAYS (RAMSEY AND REGNIER) 2-1.

MICHIGAN STATE (STAHL AND STRAUSS) DEFEATED SOUTHERN CAL (HURDER AND HOLLAND) 2-1.

WHITMAN (OLNEY AND BLANK) DEFEATED HARVARD (CHOI AND WILSON) 3-0.

MICHIGAN STATE (CARSON AND MATHESON) DEFEATED NEW YORK (GARNER AND GORELICK) 3-0.

GONZAGA (McCOLLUM AND LOSNEGARD) DEEFEATED HARVARD (KLINGER AND TARLOFF) 3-0.

MICHIGAN (SAMMARTINO AND MIDENCE) DEFEATED NORTHWESTERN (FLAIG AND GAREN) 2-1.

EMORY (WOLMER AND RAINS) ADVANCES OVER EMORY (KUO AND PHILLIPS).

CSU-BAKERSFIELD (COSPER AND WELLS) DEFEATED GEORGIA (LEE AND RAMACHANDRAPPA) 2-1.

WAKE FOREST (EATON AND SPEICE) DEFEATED TEXAS (BOWMAN AND LEE) 2-1.

PITTSBURG (CEREN AND KOEHLE) DEFEATED NORTHWESTERN (GORDON AND SWIATEK) 2-1.

EMORY (LIU AND BECKLEY) DEFEATED WAKE FOREST (DEVAULT AND PERRY) 2-1.

NORTHWESTERN (HAIG AND MORALES) DEFEATED KANSAS (APEL AND WILSON) 2-1.

EMORY (LYNN AND GOLDSTEIN) DEFEATED WEST GEORGIA (HOLBROOK AND EASTWOOD) 2-1.

OCTA-FINALS:

DARTMOUTH (BERGER AND THORPE) DEFEATED EMORY (LYNN AND GOLDSTEIN) 2-1.

NORTHWESTERN (FOSTER AND PAUL) ADVANCES OVER NORTHWESTERN (HAIG AND MORALES).

UC-BERKELEY (NATHAN AND SHALMON) DEFEATED EMORY (LIU AND BECKLEY) 3-0.

DARTMOUTH (LEONG AND DESAI) DEFEATED PITTSBURG (CEREN AND KOEHLE) 3-0.

MICHIGAN STATE (STAHL AND STRAUSS) DEFEATED WAKE FOREST (EATON AND SPEICE) 3-0.

WHITMAN (OLNEY AND BLANK) DEFEATED CSU-BAKERSFIELD (COSPER AND WELLS) 2-1.

EMORY (WOLMER AND RAINS) DEFEATED MICHIGAN STATE (CARSON AND MATHESON) 2-1.

MICHIGAN (SAMMARTINO AND MIDENCE) DEFEATED GONZAGA (MCCOLLUM AND LOSNEGARD) 3-0.


QUARTERS:

DARTMOUTH (BERGER AND THORPE) DEFEATED MICHIGAN (SAMMARTINO AND MIDENCE) 2-1.

EMORY (WOLMER AND RAINS) DEFEATED NORTHWESTERN (FOSTER AND PAUL) 2-1.

UC-BERKELEY (NATHAN AND SHALMON) DEFEATED WHITMAN (OLNEY AND BLANK) 2-1.

MICHIGAN STATE (STAHL AND STRAUSS) DEFEATED DARTMOUTH (LEONG AND DESAI) 3-0.


SEMIS:

DARTMOUTH (BERGER AND THORPE) DEFEATED MICHIGAN STATE (STAHL AND STRAUSS) 3-0.

UC-BERKELEY (NATHAN AND SHALMON) DEFEATED EMORY (WOLMER AND RAINS) 3-0.


FINALS:

DARTMOUTH (BERGER AND THORPE) DEFEATED UC-BERKELEY (NATHAN AND SHALMON) 3-0.

FINALS JUDGES:

KAI-OLIPHANT, COFFMAN, AND ROLAND.


TOP SPEAKERS - 2001 HENRY CLAY

1. ALEX BERGER, DARTMOUTH, 231
2. JONATHAN PAUL, NORTHWESTERN, 229.33
3. DAN SHALMON, UC-BERKELEY, 228.5
4. JASON REGNIER, FORT HAYS, 228.5
5. MICHAEL KLINGER, HARVARD, 228.5
6. JOHN RAINS, EMORY, 228.5
7. CALUM MATHESON, MICHIGAN STATE, 228.5
8. AUSTIN CARSON, MICHIGAN STATE, 227.5
9. GEOFF GAREN, NORTHWESTERN, 227.5
10. BEN THORPE, DARTMOUTH, 227.5
11. JORDAN HURDER, USC, 227.5
12. PETER McCOLLUM, GONZAGA, 227.33
13. STACEY NATHAN, UC-BERKELEY, 227
14. JAKE FOSTER, NORTHWESTERN, 226.67
15. JOE RAMSEY, FORT HAYS, 226.5
16. ELLIOT TARLOFF, HARVARD, 226.5
17. OMRI CEREN, PITTSBURG, 226.5
18. MICHAEL LEE, GEORGIA, 226
19. GEOFF LUNDEEN, MICHIGAN STATE, 226
20. ADRIANA MIDENCE, MICHIGAN, 226

PRE-SEASON NOVICE NATIONAL ELIMINATION ROUNDS

QUARTERS-FINALS:

HARVARD (PIETZSCH AND BRACKEN) DEFEATED NORTHWESTERN (HARPER AND MINOR) 3-0.

SIU (DUGGAN AND GRANT) ADVANCES OVER SIU (BELLINGER AND MCDONALD).

DARTMOUTH (KENNEY AND BERTHIAUME) DEFEATED MICHIGAN STATE (MURILLIO AND GILLENWATER) 3-0.

EMORY (GREENSTEIN AND GHALI) DEFEATED (MILLER AND PURAM) 3-0.


SEMIS:

HARVARD (PIETZSCH AND BRACKEN) DEFEATED EMORY (GREENSTEIN AND GHALI) 2-1.

SIU (DUGGAN AND GRANT) DEFEATED DARTMOUTH (KENNEY AND BERTHIAUME) 2-1.


FINALS:

HARVARD (PIETZSCH AND BRACKEN) DEFEATED SIU (DUGGAN AND GRANT) 3-0.

FINALS JUDGES: HERNANDEZ, FALCONER, AND GAREN

PRE-SEASON NOVICE NATIONAL TOP SPEAKER

MICHAEL KLINGER, HARVARD