National Forensic League

In the largest tournament to date, the North Catholic Invitational on Saturday, December 16, 2006, which drew 453 contestants, SJHS Junior Ben Predebon was 2nd out of 70 contestants for "Interpretation of Prose" and brought home a beautiful trophy.  Junior Jessica Orlowski was 6th of the 70 competitors in the same category.  Colleen Fisher and Richard Vaerewyk competed in the Poetry category, with Colleen winning two third places and one fourth place in what was only her second venture into speech competition!

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Speech Team members Jessica Orlowski and Ben Predebon won 1st and 5th place trophies respectively at the Baldwin High School Invitational on November 18.  Both Jessica and Ben competed in the category, "Interpretation of Literature - Prose."  Congratulations Jessica and Ben!

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Pittsburgh District Calendar

Date	Location	Event
October 19	St. Joseph High School	After school festival
October 21	Fox Chapel	Congress and Political Forum
October 26	Bethel Park	Congress Regional
November 4	Mercyhurst & McDowell	All events trophy
November 11	Quigley	All events trophy
November 15	North Catholic	After school festival
November 18	Baldwin	All events trophy
	Trinity High School	One Act Plays Regional Qualifier
December 2	Oakland Catholic	Festival
December 9	Deer Lakes	Congress 1
December 16	North Catholic	IE, PF and LD trophy
	Central Catholic	CX practice
January 6	West Allegheny/Beaver	Festival
January 13	Baldwin	Congress 2
January 20	Pine Richland	All events trophy
January 27	Mercer	IE, PF trophy
February 3-4	Bethel Park	All events trophy
February 10	North Hills	All events trophy
February 17	Fox Chapel	Congress 3
February 24	PR or Mt. Lebanon	All state events State Qualifier
March 3	Peters Township	All CFL events CFL Qualifier
March 4	Vincentian	Congress CFL Qualifier
March 10	Mars	All NFL speech events NFL Qualifier
March 16	Seneca Valley	All NFL debate events NFL Qualifier
March 17	Central Catholic	All NFL debate events NFL Qualifier
March 23-24	Susquehanna University	All state events State Tournament
March 31	Peters Township
April 14	Keystone Oaks	All events trophy
April 21		NFL Congress NFL Qualifier
		NFL Banquet
May 26-27	Houston, TX	All CFL events CFL Nationals
June 16-23	Wichita, KS	All NFL events NFL Nationals