The Glacier High School speech and debate team secured second place, and Flathead High School third, in Bozeman over the weekend. 

Glacier scored 156 points overall to Bozeman’s 294 at the Friday and Saturday tournament.  Flathead earned 146 points for the third-place finish. 

“Bozeman really had an unbelievable tournament,” said Glacier head coach Greg Adkins. “It was clear early on Monday morning that they were going to run away with the sweepstakes title, and we knew we were going to be in a battle with Flathead for second place.” 

The two-day tournament featured all 16 Class AA high schools, four Class A, B and C schools, in addition to nine junior varsity squads, “making it one of the largest and most competitive meets of the season,” Adkins said. 

Glacier secured its place in the top three with individual champions, including Anya Denmark in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Joshua Lee in Memorized Public Address and Autumn Bashara in Impromptu Speaking. 

“Our balance across the events once again kept us ahead of Flathead, and picking up wins in the final three events to finish was pretty exciting. Bozeman is the team to beat, that’s for sure. We have our work to do to catch them,” Adkins said. 

Flathead had four individual champions, B. Poitra in Legislative Debate, Bronson Willcut in Program Oral Interpretation, Lincoln McElwain in Dramatic Interpretation, Adie Fedor in Informative Speaking. 

Following are local individual results:

Varsity Policy Debate  

2. Elle Sauer and Brooklynn Bowen, Flathead 

6. Mikayla King and Caden Porter, Flathead 

Varsity Lincoln-Douglas Debate  

1. Anya Denmark, Glacier 

Novice Lincoln-Douglas Debate  

3. Brennen Anderson, Glacier 

5. Lilah Wellemeyer, Glacier 

6. Madelynn Danford, Flathead 

7. Jonah Sphuler, Glacier 

Public Forum Debate  

4. Josie Morrison and Padmaja Vatti, Flathead 

5. Keegan West and Sarah Loran, Flathead 

6. Abigail O'Connell and Garrison Burger, Flathead 

7. Kailey Lacy and Kinsey Bergman, Glacier 

8. Hailey Fiala and Asher Stanfield, Glacier 

Legislative Debate  

1. B. Poitra, Flathead 

4. Teyvia Davis, Flathead 

5. Vayda Kauffman, Flathead 

6. Miles Flake, Flathead 

Impromptu Speaking 

1. Autumn Bashara, Glacier 

5. Avery Bender, Glacier 

8. Cheyann Kesteleyn, Flathead 

Extemporaneous Speaking  

2. Dalton Houser, Flathead 

4. Josh Lee, Glacier 

6. Jake Milone, Flathead 

7. Erek Benson, Flathead 

8. Fenton Liebe-Cohen, Flathead 

Program Oral Interpretation 

1. Bronson Willcut, Flathead 

3. Layna Astley, Flathead 

4. Myla Lamson, Flathead 

5. Daniel Cole, Glacier 

7. Sophie Johnson, Glacier 

8. Natalie Young, Flathead 

Duo Interpretation  

2. Trevor Hammer and Megan Mikelson, Glacier 

4. Layna Astley and Lincoln McElwain, Flathead 

6. Szonja Czinner and Maxwell Jones, Flathead 

8. Sophie Johnson and Kaylin Stein, Glacier 

Humorous Interpretation  

4. Trevor Hammer, Glacier 

5. Bridget Reed, Glacier 

Dramatic Interpretation  

1. Lincoln McElwain, Flathead 

3. Autumn Bashara, Glacier 

5. Sophya Allred, Glacier 

7. Alex Carmalt, Glacier 

8. Lynne Beisel, Flathead 

Original Oratory  

3. Kendall Dolan, Glacier 

Informative Speaking  

1. Adie Fedor, Flathead 

2. Annabelle Church, Glacier 

4. Eli Sanderson Strutz, Glacier 

Memorized Public Address  

1. Josh Lee, Glacier 

2. Myla Lamson, Glacier 

3. Bronson Willcut, Flathead 

4. Raya Gronley, Glacier 

5. Tregan Blades, Glacier 

7. Daniel Cole, Glacier 

Reporter Hilary Matheson may be reached at 758-4431 or [email protected].