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