Past Speech Contest Winners

Members who have reached the pinnacle at District 101’s speech contests.

Annual Conference Speech Contests

International:

  • 2024:
    • First Place – Sara Ivie
    • Second Place – Jennifer Noble
    • Third Place – Bob Gulino
  • 2022:
    • First Place – Lindy MacLaine
    • Second Place – Michael Hanes
    • Third Place – Ajay Hiraskar
  •  2021:
    • First Place – Cat Nguyen
    • Second Place – Ravi Adusimilli
    • Third Place – Gordon Mattingly
  • 2020: Nish Neelalojanan, Fair Oaks Club
  • 2019: Janet Hebert, Almaden Valley Orators Club
  • 2018: Gopi Kallayil, I’m Feeling Chatty
  • 2017: Barbara Busch, Sunnyvale Speakeasies

Evaluation:

  • 2024:
    • First Place – Nish Neelalojanan
    • Second Place – Dustin Kroeker
    • Third Place – Lalitha Natraj
  • 2022:
    • First Place – Marcia Davis-Cannon
    • Second Place – Declan Shalvey
    • Third Place – Gayathri Natarajan
  • 2019: Elaine Lung, Silicon Valley Storytellers
  • 2017: Brad Jacobs, Next Step
  • 2016: Matthew Stevenson, SynapTalks

Table Topics:

  • 2021:
    • First Place – David Singer
    • Second Place – Janet Janssen
    • Third Place – Haixia Yu
  • 2017: Sanjana Das, Cadence AHgorithms Club

Tall Tales:

  • 2020: Dennis Dawson, Big Basin Toastmasters
  • 2018: Andy Keates, TGIF Management

Fall Fusion Speech Contests

Evaluation:

  • 2020:
    • First Place – Renee Yao
    • Second Place – Lin Chao
    • Third Place – Cat Nguyen

Table Topics:

  • 2021:
    • First Place – Birgit Starmanns
    • Second Place – Nish Neelalojanan
    • Third Place – Megan Mayer
  • 2019:
    • First Place – Alyson King
    • Second Place – Benjamin Shaibu
    • Third Place – Eric Szczerbaty
  • 2018: Alyson King

Humorous:

  • 2022:
    • First Place – Eleanor Shalvey
    • Second Place – Lindy MacLaine
    • Third Place – 
  • 2021:
    • First Place – Gordon Mattingly
    • Second Place – Jingyu Tan
    • Third Place – Karen Cornwell
  • 2020:
    • First Place – Declan Shalvey
    • Second Place – Lisa Bennett
    • Third Place – Gordon Mattingly
  • 2019:
    • First Place – Dennis Dawson
    • Second Place – Lynn Stuart
    • Third Place – Pradeep Gandhi
  • 2018: Doris Tse

Costume Contest:

  • 2021:
    • First Place – Kim Amundson
    • Second Place – Bastian Reimuth
    • Third Place – Tejas Sathe
  • 2020:
    • First Place – Nishant Chandrashekar
    • Second Place – Chie Kawahara
    • Third Place – Dan Merget