Speech and Debate Team
Ransom Everglades Speech and Debate excels in back-to-back tournaments
Ransom Everglades Speech and Debate won the Speech Sweepstakes Award – given to the top team in the speech event – at the Cypress Tradition tournament in Weston Dec. 7-8 as team members collected a host of individual awards. RESD also excelled at the Glenbrooks National Speech and Debate Tournament Nov. 23-25 in Chicago, Ill. Across both tournaments, team members collected 19 top placements.
Andrew Gedde ’25 led RE with a first-place finish in Informative Speaking at the Cypress Tradition, and Lucas Sanchez ’27 earned third place at the Chicago event. The teams competed under coaches Kate Hamm and Justinmar Perez.
See key results from both tournaments below:
Cypress Tradition, Weston, Fla., Dec. 7-8
Ransom Everglades won the Speech Sweepstakes Award
Andrew Gedde '25 got first place in Informative Speaking
Connor Alfonso '26 got third place in Informative Speaking
Reisha Yavagal '27 got fourth place in Informative Speaking
Hannah Risin '25 got second place in Extemporaneous Speaking
Reed Gershman '26 got third place in Extemporaneous Speaking
Mateo Delgado '27 got fourth place in Extemporaneous Speaking
Miranda Silva '26 got second place in Duo Interpretation (alongside Daniela Garcia '26)
Daniela Garcia '26 got second place in Duo Interpretation (alongside Miranda Silva '26)
Jilly Demos-Brown '25 got fourth place in Duo Interpretation (alongside Kayra Serpenguzel '25)
Kayra Serpenguzel '25 got fourth place in Duo Interpretation (alongside Jilly Demos-Brown '25)
Paola Maynulet '26 got sixth place in Duo Interpretation (alongside Stella Newman '26)
Stella Newman '26 got sixth place in Duo Interpretation (alongside Paola Maynulet '26) Paola Maynulet '26 got fifth place in Original Oratory
Eli Tomassetti '27, Minnie Zhou '26 and Michael Mederos '25 got second place in World Schools Debate
Glenbrooks National Speech and Debate Tournament in Chicago, Ill., Nov. 23-24
Lucas Sanchez '27 received third place in Dramatic Interpretation
Gustavo do Valle '26 received fifth place in Humorous Interpretation
Daniela Garcia '26 and Miranda Silva '26 received fifth place in Duo Interpretation
Claudia Colina '25 earned seventh place in Program Oral Interpretation and in Duo Interpretation (alongside Lucas Sanchez '27
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.