Meeting Minutes
Louisiana High School Speech League
Fall Coaches Meeting
Southside High School
August 24, 2024
AGENDA
I. Welcome
A. Introduction of Executive Council Members
II. Roll call
Abbeville High School
Alexandria Senior HS
Fisher Middle/High School
Bolton High School
Caddo Magnet High School
Caldwell Parish High School
Carencro High SChool
Cecilia High School
Ascension Episcopal
The Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men
Episcopal School of Acadiana
Isidore Newman School
David thibodaux Stem magnet Academy
Kaplan High School
Lafayette High School
Zachary High School
Parkway High School
Peabody Magnet
Southside High School
St. Mary's Dominican High School
St. Thomas More HS
Teurlings Catholic High School
III. Old Business
National Tournament Reports
Lafayette CFL
Report given by Scott Johnstone - 9:20am
Dues have increased for national membership to $85
National tournament this year will be in Chicago memorial day weekend
National tournament results report
In process of getting national tournament hosted by Lafayette
New Orleans CFL - 9:30am
Report given by Alma Nicholson
Meeting in september - email to come soon
NSDA - 9:32am
Introduction of committee members
2024 nationals results
Speech and debate week
Resources on website speechanddebate.org
Springboard tournaments
Committee Reports - 9:43am
Inclusion of Middle Schools
Report from Jacob Leger - 9:43am
Suggestion of a middle school division of events at host tournaments
Oi, duo, impromptu, dec, policy and ld
Maybe saturday only - allow hs students to judge
Middle school competition helps students succeed nationally
Would ente
r under middle school name - do not need to join lhssl
Adding Informative as an Event - 9:57am
Scott johnstone speaking on behalf of informative
Could be an event alternative for oratory competitors
Proposal to adopt rules set by NSDA
Do not have to have a visual aid
Motion to add as a sanction event at LHSSL and state tournament
Motion seconded
Vote 18-0 passes
TC Judging Quota Committee - moved to new business area
Tabled Discussion - 10:05 am
Change of TC qualification requirements
Recap of tc qualifications post covid - Craig Wall
Discussion in the spring was to up requirements post covid
Committee report - Massey Hammons
Proposal to use the AFA qualifications system
Anytime students enter the event there is an opportunity to qualify for state if the event has 2 competitors.
Must get a 2 legs in an event that add to a total of 5 or less to qualify - different leg amounts based on entry size for event
Must enter in 2 tournaments min to qualify for state
Could still use the free entry system from pre-covid with the new system - Greg Malis
Is the proposal a temporary or permanent move? - Megan Broussard
Why go to more tournaments if you already qualify? - Scott Johnstone
could use this system to do seeding for state tournament
Chris Vincent - number of tournaments offering debate make it hard for debaters to qualify under proposed system
Greg Malis - suggestion of different system for debate than for speech and leave debate to be decided later Greg Malis - allows for more total events to happen at a tournament bc now small events can still qual for state
Motion to adopt system for speech qualifications at state - Kasi McCartney
2nd - Megan Broussard
Vote passed 19-0-0
IV. New Business
Proposed Changes to State Tournament - 10:22 am report Greg Malis
Replace Judge Bond with Fine System
Fine wouldn't have to be for a set person. In theory schools could swap in advance
Elimination of increased judge requirements for “local schools”
Raising the cap instead of eliminating as an alt
Motion to move the judge bond and move to fine - Rex Jones
2nd
18 -0-0 passes
Motion to form a committee to evaluate ratios for the state tournament with a December 1 deadline
2nd
Vote 20-0-1 passes
Codifying current number of Preliminary rounds
Recommend a motion to codify the current rounds at state as 4 rounds of debate and 3 of speech
2nd
Vote 16-0-5 passes
Volunteers for judge committee
Chris, Jacob, Rex, Martha Claire, Blake
Tournament Schedule 2024-2025 - 11:00am
*Based on tournament notifications submitted online by Wednesday, Aug. 21
October
10/12 -10/14 DTA Debate only 100% online
10/25-10/26 Teurlings Catholic All events/Novice and Advanced
November
11/2 MACA speech only no congress
11/8-11/9 David Thibodaux Novice/Advanced Speech and Debate
Events and middle school in every event
Congress
11/15-11/16 John Paul the Great Debate Only - combined with ESA speech
ESA speech combo with JPG and congress
11/22-11/23 Abbeville High Speech events/Congress add middle school
December
12/6 - 12/7 Southside All events and middle school congress
12/13-12/15 Isidore Newman All Speech Events
Congress
Novice/Advanced LD
Novice/Advanced PF
Novice/Advanced Policy
World Schools
January
1/10 -1/11 ASH Backup
1/17-1/18 St.Thomas More All Events Congress and middle school
1/24-1/25 Ben Franklin All Events except Policy
1/24-1/25 Peabody Magnet OO, Novice Ext, Impromptu, Info
NLD/ALD/NCX/ACX - all events
1/31 - 2/1 Dominican All events, january topic, congress
February
2/8 Cecilia speech only
2/21-2/22 Kaplan Congress friday and IE/duo Saturday, ms fri
March
3/7-3/8 Lafayette CFL District Teurlings?
New Orleans CFL District
3/21 - 3/22 NSDA District New Orleans?
3/27-3/29 LHSSL State Championship DTSMA or Southside
V. Announcements
Reminders - 11:30am
All LHSSL dues and paperwork to Kasi McCartney by September 12, 2024
Congressional Debate legislation
$8 IE entry and $16 Debate Entry
Blake Ziegler as Clerk of Congress - Blakeziegler.debate@gmail.com
Judge training for multicultural biases - Blake
NSDA and NFHS have online training
Tabroom setting to prevent judges for entering tournament without training
Meeting Adjourned - 11:35am