The Texas Forensic Association (txfa.org) is our state circuit.

Most local tournaments we attend are TFA tournaments.

The TFA State tournament is hosted every year in March by a different region. This year, TFA State is March 6-8 at Jordan High School.

Students must earn 12 points to be eligible to compete at TFA State 2025. State points are earned at local TFA tournaments when students advance to outrounds.

Qualifiers:

1. Henry- Congress, United States Extemp, World Schools Debate

2. Sam and Nick- Public Forum Debate

3. Gabi- Congress

4. Zoe- United States Extemp

5. Lucy- World Schools Debate

6. Eléna- World Schools Debate

7. Atticus- World Schools Debate

8. Salomé- World Schools Debate

9. Rosemary and Parker- Public Forum Debate

10. Ian- World Schools Debate

11. Emmy- Congress

12. Talia- World Schools Debate

13. Schaefer- World Schools Debate

14. Colin- World Schools Debate

State Points Tracker:

• Lucy, International Extemp, 1 point

• Henry, International Extemp, 1 point

• Lucky and Lily, Duo Interpretation, 6 points

• Audrey, Original Oratory, 10 points

• Nate and Luke, Policy Debate, 11 points

• Nate, LD, 10 points

• Luke, LD, 1 point

• Rebecca, Congress, 2 points

• Colin, Congress, 2 points

• Atticus, US Extemp, 3 points

• Alexis, Program of Oral Interpretation (POI), 6 points

• Lauchly, US Extemp, 9 points

• Rebecca, World Schools, 4 points

We took 13 students to TFA State this year!

Congratulations to our competitors:

• Emmy

• Henry

• Zoe

• Atticus

• Elena

• Talia

• Colin

• Lucy

• Salome

• Schaefer

• Ian

Henry advanced to the quarterfinals of extemporaneous speaking and finals of congress!!

The Tournament of Champions is the national circuit we compete on. Students must earn 2 bids to be eligible to compete at the 2025 TOC.

The Tournament of Champions is hosted in April at the University of Kentucky. This year, it is scheduled for April 26-28.

Students earn TOC bids by advancing at national circuit tournaments. Information can be found here!

TOC Qualifiers:

• Nate and Luke, policy debate!

• Audrey, original oratory!

• Henry, congress!

TOC Bid Tracker:

• Lucky and Lily, Duo Interpretation, 1 bid

• Nate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, 1 bid

• Gabi, Congress, 1 bid

• Zoe, Extemporaneous Speaking, 1 bid

Henry won 2nd place in senate, advancing to nationals!

Atticus, Eléna, and Colin all qualified for the world schools teams to represent our district at nationals! 

Congratulations also to our Booster Club for winning volunteer of the year, Principal Brian Lancaster for winning administrator of the year, our favorite alum, Will Erard, for winning communicator of the year, and Coach Contreras, for winning coach of the year!

Henry advanced to quarterfinals of extemporaneous speaking and finals of congress!

Parker and Rosemary broke to outrounds in PF!! 

Audrey advanced to octos of oratory!!

Nate and Luke made it to octos of policy debate, earning their 5th bid of the season! 
Nate was also the 10th highest speaker at the tournament! 

Zoe advanced to quarters of extemp!! She earned her first TOC bid!!

Gabi advanced to congress finals!!

Our worlds teams both advanced and had qualifiers!! 

Talia, Atticus, and Eléna made it to semis! Talia qualified for state! 

Salomé, Schaefer, Ian, Colin, and Henry advanced to finals and placed 1st!! Henry, Ian, and Colin all qualified to state in worlds!!! 

We had some success in extemp too!
Omar was the highest ranked novice extemper!

Gabi, Salomé, Schaefer, Atticus, and Michael all advanced to semis of US extemp! 

Henry placed 6th and Lauchly placed 5th!! 

Our LD debaters also took home some accolades! 
Nate advanced to semis in Varsity LD! 

Palmer went 3-0, earned top speaker, and won 1st place in Novice LD!! 

Alex placed 4th in POI!! 

In Congress, Gabi, Izzy, and Rebecca all finaled!!

And shout out to Ava, Naomi, and CJ for trying out a new debate event!!! Yay novice PF and LD!!

Our Worlds team of Lucy, Schaefer, Ian, and Salomé advanced to finals and won on a 3-0 decision! 
Schaefer and Salomé qualified to state in worlds! 

We also had a 3- way tie for top speaker in world schools debate! 

In US extemp, Michael advanced to finals and placed 7th! 
Lauchly advanced to finals and placed 2nd!! 

In Congress, Rebecca advanced to finals! 
Emmy advanced to finals, placed 2nd, and earned her state qualification! 

In public forum, Parker and Rosemary advanced to semis and earned their state qualification!

In program of oral interpretation, Alexis made it to finals and placed 1st!!

LC Anderson was honored with membership to to Barkley Forum for our historic competitive success at this tournament. 

Results: 
- Nate and Luke competed in policy debate (Pelham) and advanced to the bid round, earning their 4th bid of the year! They were both also in the top 20 speakers of the division, with Luke earning 19th and Nate earning 13th!! 

- Henry advanced to semis of congressional debate, earning his first bid of the season! 

- Audrey advanced to finals of original oratory, placed 4th, and earned her second bid of the season! She is now fully qualified to the Tournament of Champions! 

Emmy, 2nd place congress! 

Rebecca, 4th place congress!

Zoe, 2nd place US extemp AND state qualled in extemp!

Lauchly, 4th place US extemp!

Our worlds team of Atticus, Salomé, Colin, and Schaefer advanced to finals! Atticus earned his state qualification in worlds schools debate!! 

Emmy was a congress finalist! 

We had THREE varsity extemp finalists!
Emily (and Peggy) - 6th 
Lauchly- 4th 
Zoe- 2nd 

In novice extemp, both Lael and Omar made it to finals!! 

Alexis earned 4th place in POI and 6th place in poetry!

First time competitors:
- Ronan 
- Palmer
- Jude
- Kaylee
- Max 
- Quincy
- Hannah 
- Samantha 
- Carmen 

Varsity World Schools Debate 
- the team of Salomé, Ian, and Schaefer (Anderson Trojans) advanced to semis with a 3-1 record! 
- The team of Lucy, Eléna, Talia, and Atticus (Anderson SLATE) advanced to semis with a 3-1 record! They walked over the Trojans to advance to finals. In finals, they won on a 2-1 decision! Eléna and Lucy earned their state qualification for Worlds!! 
- Our varsity LD debaters also competed in Worlds. The team of Nate, Luke, Milo, and Aviv went 2-2. Nate was awarded top speaker in Varsity World Schools Debate! 

International Extemp 
- Nate, semifinalist 
- Hunter, semifinalist 
- Rebecca, semifinalist 

United States Extemp 
- Schaefer, semifinalist 
- Lauchly, semifinalist 
- Colin, semifinalist 
- Aviv, semifinalist 
- Salomé, semifinalist 
- Emmy, semifinalist 
- Parker, semifinalist 
- Milo, semifinalist 
- Zoe, 5th place 
- Atticus, 4th place
- Henry, 3rd place 
- Henry also earned his state qualification!! 

Novice Extemp 
- Peyton advanced to semis! 

Novice World Schools Debate 
- 15 debaters competed in worlds! 
- The Anderson Munchkins (CJ, Naomi, Klein, Quincy, and Patrik) went 2-1! 
- The Terrific Trojans (Hannah, Lael, Samantha, Valeria, and Carmen) went 2-1 AND were the 3rd highest seed at the tournament! 

Varsity Congress
- Emmy placed 6th! 

Novice Congress
- Owen and Peyton were finalists! 

Oratory
- Audrey placed 6th! 

Duo
- Lucky and Lily were finalists!

Sam and Nick advanced to double octos in Public Forum!! 

Gabi advanced to finals in Congress!! She placed 4th AND earned her first bid to the Tournament of Champions!! 
Gabi also earned her TFA State qualification in Congress!!! 

Nate and Luke advanced to quarterfinals of policy debate!! They earned their 3rd bid to the Tournament of Champions!! 

Nate was the 9th place top speaker for policy and Luke earned 8th place top speaker!

Sam and Nick- PF semis and state qualified in PF!!! 

Gabi- congress finals, 4th place AND international extemp finals!! 

Naomi- novice extemp finalist!!

Domestic Extemp

• Semifinalists: Lauchly, Salome and Schaefer

Novice Extemp 

• Semifinalists: Patrik, CJ, and Valeria 

Congress

• Finalists: Rebecca and Colin 

• 6th place: Emmy 

Novice Congress 

• Finalist: Em 

• 2nd place: Klein

Oratory 

• 1st place: Audrey

Public Forum 

• Semifinalists: Parker and Rosemary 

Program of Oral Interp (POI)

• Semifinalist: Alexis

Valeria and Alexis competed for the first time! 

Lena, Dina, and Naomi all tried WSD for the first time! 

Nate and Luke returned to Oklahoma to defend their champion legacy, this time in Policy Debate.

They championed the tournament!

Nate and Luke earned their second TOC bid, completing their tournament of champions qualification.

Lampasas Side:

• Henry won 1st place in United States Extemp.

• The Worlds Team of Lucy, Henry, Elena, and Rebecca advanced to finals and place 2nd!

Bowie Side:

• Parker and Rosemary won 1st place in Public Forum debate!

• Izzy, Congress finals

• Emmy, Congress finals

• Gabi, 6th place Congress

• Henry, 4th place Congress (and he earned his state qualification!)

• Salome, US Extemp semifinalist

• Zoe, US Extemp 6th place

• Henry, US Extemp 4th place

• 8 of our debate 1 novices competed for the very first time! We're so proud of our novices!

• Lael, Novice Extemp 4th place

• CJ, Novice Extemp 3rd place

• Patrik, Novice Extemp 2nd place

• Klein, Novice Extemp 1st place

Round Robin

• Nate won 8 of his 12 judges ballots in the prelims

• He was the top overall speaker for the Round Robin

• Nate advanced to finals and placed 2nd!

Classic

• Luke went 5-1 in prelims and advanced to outrounds!

• Luke was the 2nd overall best speaker at the tournament!

• Nate went 5-1 and advanced to finals!

• Nate placed 2nd at the Greenhill Invitational!

Henry- Congress semis! 

Audrey- original oratory, 4th place!! She earned her first TOC bid of the year!! 

Lucky and Lily- duo interp, FIRST place!!! They earned their first TOC bid of the year!! 

Nate and Luke- policy debate, co champions!!! They earned their first TOC bid of the year! 

Luke- 7th overall best speaker in policy 

Nate- 2nd overall best speaker in policy

Zoe: Domestic Extemp, 4th place 

Henry: International Extemp, 6th place

Lucy: International Extemp, 5th place 

Rebecca: Congress finalist 

Henry: Congress, 1st place

Samantha & Nick: Public Forum, semifinalists

Sam and Nick placed 2nd in Public Forum Debate

Henry competed in Congress- House and advanced to the semifinals!

Nate competed in extemp debate, advancing to outrounds

Audrey qualified in Original Oratory

Lucky and Lily qualified in Duo Interpretation

Henry qualified in Congress

Nate and Luke qualified in Lincoln Douglas debate

Nate advanced to the quarterfinals, placing him in the top 8 LD Debaters in the country!

Henry qualified for the National Speech and Debate Association National Tournament in Congress- Senate

Gabi qualified in Congress- House

Lucky qualified in Dramatic Interpretation

The Public Forum team of Sam and Nick advanced to double octofinals!! 
They were in the top 32 teams in the state of Texas. Sam was also ranked in the top 60 speakers. 

Lincoln Douglas debaters Nate and Luke both advanced to octofinals!! 
This put both in the top 16 debaters in Texas. Nate was the 12th overall highest ranked speaker and Luke was the 17th!! 

The duo interpretation team of Lucky and Lily were quarterfinalists!!

In Congress, Henry and Gabi broke to semifinals!!
Henry was also the highest ranked debater after the preliminary rounds!!

Nate and Luke both advanced to out rounds and earned speaker awards in Lincoln Douglas debate! 

Luke: 13th overall best speaker, was in the top 64 LD debaters! 

Nate: 3rd top speaker! He was also a quarter finalist, making him in the top 8 of all debaters at the tournament. 

Gabi advanced to the quarterfinals of congressional debate! 

Lucky and Lily advanced to the octofinals of Duo Interpretation!!

———Congress 
Colin placed 5th and earned his state qualification! 

——— Domestic Extemp 
Semifinalists:
Charlotte!
Lucie!
Zoe! 
Schaefer! 

———— International Extemp
Salomé, semifinalist! 

——— Novice LD 
Michael was a semifinalist! 

———- Original Oratory 
Sanayah, 1st place!!! 

——— Public Forum 
Sam and Nick, 2nd place!! They also earned their state qualification!! 

———— World Schools Debate
Lit Crazy Crew, the team of Talia, Lucy, Henry, Eléna, and Atticus, won first place!!!

Henry advanced to finals of Congressional Debate, placed 5th, and earned his 2nd bid to the Tournament of Champions!! 

Audrey advanced to finals of Original Oratory, placed 4th, and earned her 1st bid to the TOC!!

Nate advanced to quarterfinals of Lincoln Douglas debate, earning his 3rd TOC bid!!

Gabi- 3rd place congressional debate!! 

Kelsey- 4th place informative speaking!! 

Eléna- 5th place humorous interpretation!!

Nick L- 7th place humorous interpretation!!

—— Congress 
Emmy, finalist 
Colin, 4th place 
Henry, 1st place (!!!)

—— domestic extemp
Emmy, semifinalist 
Charlotte, semifinalist 

——- foreign extemp 
Lucy, semifinalist 

——- original oratory 
Audrey, 6th place 

—— varsity Lincoln Douglas debate 
Luke, quarterfinalist
Luke also finished his state qualification!! 

——- varsity Public Forum debate 
Parker and Rosemary, quarterfinalists

Congress 
Finalist- Ian Lum

Finalist- Rebecca Ballow 

7th place- Colin McGowan 

2nd place- Henry Dieringer 

Domestic Extemp (DX) 

6th place- Henry 

5th place- Lauchly Johnson 

Foreign Extemp (FX) 

6th place- Lucy Laves

Novice Extemp (NX) 

4th place- Rebecca Ballow

3rd place- Lena Fadhel 

Novice LD

Semifinalist Emily Hernandez 

Original Oratory

4th place- Sanayah Panicker 

Varsity PF 

Quarterfinalists- Alex Webster and Nick Sharma

UIL State Congress

Henry was a 6A finalist!

UIL Cross-Examination Debate Districts

Nate and Luke won the tournament and advanced to UIL CX State

Nate and Luke were invited to compete at the Newark LD Round Robin.

Both were LD octofinalists in the Invitational tournament.

Nate also earned 10th top speaker in varsity LD!

Kelsey placed 2nd in informative speaking

Congress- 
Emmy was 2nd place! 
She earned her state qualification! 

Novice Congress- 
Rebecca- 6th place 
Izzy - finalist! 

Novice Extemp- 
Rebecca, Izzy- semifinalists 

Lena - 2nd 
Lucie - 1st 

Novice LD- 
Emily - quarter finalist! 

Original Oratory- 
Sanayah - 5th place

US Extemp-
Semifinalists- Zoe, Lauchly, Ian  

Varsity PF- 
Quarterfinalists- Paul and Isaiah

Honorable Mention: WSD Team Anderson HEAT 
Went 2-1!

Congress- 
Emmy was a finalist, earning 2 state points and a bid to the Tournament of Champions!!

Informative Speaking- 
Kelsey was a quarter finalist! 

Lincoln Douglas debate-
Milo advanced to out rounds! He also earned 10th overall best speaker out of 143 debaters!! 

Luke was a double octofinalist! He was one of the top 18 debaters at the tournament!

Nate was an octofinalist, ranking in the top 16 debaters at the tournament! He also earned 8th top speaker!! 

Public Forum- 
Orion and Ananya broke to double octos, putting them in the top 32 at the tournament out of 108 teams!! 

Sam and Nick advanced to octofinals, placing them in the top 16 teams at the tournament! 

Sam also received a speaker award for being the 12th best speaker at the tournament- out of 216 speakers!! 

In United States Extemp, event captain Kendall was a quarter finalist!! 

Novice Extemp- Rebecca Ballow, 5th place! 

Novice Public Forum- Dina Fadhel and Noble Padden, 2nd place
Dina- 3rd overall top speaker

United States Extemp- Henry Dieringer, 2nd place!
Henry also earned his state qualification. 

Varsity PF- Sam Martin and Orion Padden, semifinalists!
Top speaker: Sam Martin!

Bowie side:
Congress- Emmy and Colin finaled, and Emmy placed 7th 

Duet Acting- Ellie and Vivi placed 4th

Info- Audrey placed 4th

IX- Lucy advanced to semis

NLD- Emily was a semifinalist and 2nd overall best speaker in NLD 

LD- Milo was a quarterfinalist

NX- Zoe placed 1st!

USX- Salome semifinaled

Lampasas Side

Duet- Ellie and Vivi placed 5th

Info- Kelsey placed 4th

NPF- Cameron and Noble placed 2nd
Cameron was 3rd overall speaker

VPF- Sam and Orion & Ananya and Kaavya were in semifinals 
Sam was 6th overall speaker
Kaavya and Ananya finished their state qualification!

Henry placed 1st for our UIL District and advanced to UIL State!

Congratulations to Gabi for placing 1st in congress and earning her state qualification in congressional debate!!

Congratulations to Luke for winning 1st place in Lincoln Douglas debate!!

Congratulations to Mia for placing 1st in prose!!

Congratulations also to:
Henry for placing 3rd in domestic extemp!

Audrey for placing 5th in informative speaking!!

Salomé for placing 6th in DX!

Lucie for placing 6th in novice extemp!

Paul was in the top 70 speakers of the tournament!

Nate made it to octafinals in Lincoln Douglas Debate.

Kendall made it to quarterfinals in extemp!

Logan made it to semis in congress and earned a bid!

Henry placed 2nd overall in congress, securing his first TOC bid of the season and a pretty cool trophy!

Luke won 4th place top speaker award and co-championed finals alongside Nate!

Nate was awarded 1st place top speaker!!

Both juniors earned a bid to the Tournament of Champions in LD.

Hays offered novice student congress and novices Rebecca and Zoe competed! Both made it to finals and Zoe placed 3rd!

Three of our four PF teams advanced to quarters!

Sam & Orion and Paul & Isaiah advanced to quarterfinals. 
Kaavya & Ananya for won 1st place in Public Forum!!!
Isaiah and Paul were also in the top 3 speakers in varsity PF! 

In domestic extemp, Colin placed 6th and Henry placed 4th!

In duo, Lucky and Lily placed 4th!

In foreign extemp, Maiya made it to semis!

In info, Bryn placed 6th!

For novice extemp, we had Lucie, Lena, Izzy, and Rebecca advance to semis!! Zoe made it to finals and placed 2nd!

Nate advanced to the Lincoln Douglas debate bid round

Luke broke to the first outround of Lincoln Douglas debate

Lucky and Lily won FIRST place in duo interpretation, earning a bid to the Tournament of Champions

Public Forum-

Rosemary and Parker advanced to finals and placed 2nd!! 
Amanda received the top speaker award for novice PF!! 

Lincoln Douglas-
Milo went 3-1 in prelims! 
Nate advanced to finals and placed 1st!! 

Congress-
Emmy, Henry, and Gabi all advanced to finals! 
Henry placed 5th!!
Gabi placed 3rd!! 

Speech-
Nate H competed in prose, advanced to finals, and placed 5th!! 
Kendall, Colin, and Salomé competed in domestic extemp and all three advanced to finals!! 
Kendall placed 6th!
Colin placed 5th! 
Salomé placed 4th!!

Public Forum:
Rosemary and Parker went 3-2 and just barely missed the double octos break.

Nick and Sam went 3-2 also and broke to double octos!! 
They both also won speaker awards! Nick won 10th overall and Sam won 6th!! 

Lincoln Douglas: 
Luke went 4-1 and broke to double octos 

Nate also went 4-1 and made it all the way to quarterfinals, securing himself a bid to the TOC. 

Interp:
Lucky and Lily broke to duo interp finals and placed 6th overall, earning their state qualification!!

Final results:
For our interpretation events: 

Lucky Cantu and Atticus Sencenbaugh made it to the final round of Duet Acting on both sides of the swing.

Lucky Cantu and Lily Steinhauser made it to finals of Duo Interp on both sides of the swing.

Mia Vaisman advanced to the final round of prose!

For our extemporaneous speakers: 

Our sweet novices Amanda Kromer and Zoe Taylor both advanced in extemp on both sides of the swing!! On the Pflugerville side, Zoe Taylor WON first place in novice extemp!! On the Hendrickson side, Zoe took home first place and Amanda took home second place!!

On the Pflugerville side: 
Salomé Casey advanced to semis in her very first extemp round!

Our amazing seniors took home trophies, with Kendall Meachum placing 3rd and Logan Marcum placing 2nd!!

On the Hendrickson side: 
All three of our senior extempers made it to finals 
(At their last first tournament of their high school careers) and placed in the top 6! 
Charlotte Gossett placed 6th
Kendall Meachum placed 3rd
And Logan Marcum placed 2nd!!

And don’t think I’ve forgotten our debaters. 

We brought four congressional debaters to Hendrickson and all four them advanced to the semi final round!! That’s Colin McGowan, Emmy Ward, Henry Dieringer and Gabi Avramova.

Of those four, three of them advanced to the finals! Our finalists were Emmy, Gabi, and Henry, and Henry ultimately placed 4th overall!

Public Forum: Samantha Martin and Nick Sharma made it all the way to the semi final round of the tournament.
The teams of Benko/Spindler and Arora/Yalamanchili both went 3-1, losing only ONE round of their four prelims. Our other senior team, Dietz and Foreman, went 2-2!

World Schools: Our seniors Bryn Oliver, Orion Padden, and Alex Webster competed for only the third time together and first time this year and advanced all the way to the semi final round.