Check up, GMIF

[AfRiCaNHI]

All right, ROLL CALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Name:
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year):
School:
State:
Major:
Minor (if any):
Years of Experience:
Extension (yes/no):





Name: Tope Abegunde
Grade (next year): Senior
School: Harry S Truman
State: Pennsylvania
Major: HI
Minor: NONE
Years of Experience: 2
Extension (yes or no): no

[toughguy422]

James McGraw
Senior
Loyola Blakefield
Maryland
Oratory
Interp (if they let me cross disciplines)
3
yes

[The jetBlue Freak]

Name: Ben Kaufman
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year): Senior
School: Randolph
State: NJ
Major: HI
Minor (if any): DI
Years of Experience: 3
Extension (yes/no): Yes

I could fill this out for the other 10 or so people from my area coming... but I'll let them do it by themselves hehe

See ya there

Ben

[Keaghlan]

This camp is very expensive and I hope it helps me improve in OO. If it doesn't I wonder if I can get my $ back... :?

[NFox]

If you are going for OO, you should be pretty satisfied from what I've heard of the coaching staff. Camps are a great tool, I hope all of you chick-a-dees have oodles of fun. GMIF people are going to need their own form of "The UTNIF Longhorns," "The FFI Swirl," or "The Interprod 'clink'/'i'" (Not even Interprodians that I have asked know what their 'thing' is. This is going to be necessary for the time when all Gee-Miffies inevitably do awesomely at tournies. That's just my random thought for the day.

Nick Fox

[toughguy422]

i am sure you will improve in oo. tony figliola is an amazing oratory coordinator (though i think that he would be even better at interp), and if you are lucky enough to have ashley mack as a lab leader, you will without a doubt be in tons of elimination rounds. as far as the camp motto thing goes, only ffi interpers do the swirl, though (i dont know about the other camps' things).

[toughguy422]

i want to add just one more thing to comfort Keaghlan. FFIers and HGP students under tony figliola last year placed: 1,4 at Wake, 2,5 at Yale, 2,4,6 at UPenn, 2,3,4 at Blue Key, 2 at GMU, 1,5 at Crestian, 2,6 at Emory, and 1st at NCFLs. This all without mentioning the millions of semifinalists, quarterfinalist, and octofinalists.

[Keaghlan]

Yeah... its nice to see that a number of people coming from the camp are succesful in the "big" and "significant" tournaments but I really want to learn some fundamentals, such as what are NFL judges looking for at nats. and so on. I guess I'm just being pestimistic but $1000 plus is a lot of money for my parents to shell out. Ty for the advice tho.

PS - I know and girl (Soo Jin Kim, Myers Park HS) who placed 6th at Blue Key in Flordia but has never placed at a single invitational that I have been at. I have actually out ranked (and placed above) her in like three local tournaments when I was a freshman and she was a junior. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, are these camps really teaching fundamentals or are the people coming from the camps just naturally "good"...also do you know anyone that has attended GMIF and been in the finals at Nats. I know alot of times it comes down to luck but still... just curious.

[toughguy422]

this is GMIF's first year ever. therefore, no nfl final round experience. however, though nfls does generally bring the best competition, in no way is it fair to any competitor, including yourself, to measure his or her success by one tournament, especially one in which so many crazy things tend to happen.

James

[AfRiCaNHI]

i want to add just one more thing to comfort Keaghlan. FFIers and HGP students under tony figliola last year placed: 1,4 at Wake, 2,5 at Yale, 2,4,6 at UPenn, 2,3,4 at Blue Key, 2 at GMU, 1,5 at Crestian, 2,6 at Emory, and 1st at NCFLs. This all without mentioning the millions of semifinalists, quarterfinalist, and octofinalists.

And you're still missing out on many more.

And yeah, Fig is one awesome-*** coach, and his orators make it to national outrounds every year.


I could fill this out for the other 10 or so people from my area coming... but I'll let them do it by themselves hehe

Dude, I'm curious, so go for it.

[timjanas]

Name: Tim Janas
Grade (next year): Senior
School: Stuyvesant HS
State: NY
Major: HI
Minor (if any): None
Years of Experience: 1 yr. dec/ 1 yr. hi
Extension (yes/no): yes

Anyone who gets coached by Stacy Endman is the luckiest son of a gun there is.

[The jetBlue Freak]

Okay I'll do as many as I can remember from the area...

Name: ME! Ben Kaufman
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year): Senior
School: Randolph
State: NJ
Major: HI
Minor (if any): DI
Years of Experience: 3
Extension (yes/no): yes

Name: Michele Goodson
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year): Senior
School: Randolph
State: NJ
Major: DUO
Minor (if any): DI
Years of Experience: 3
Extension (yes/no): Yes

Name: Tiffany Schloesser
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year): Senior
School: Randolph
State: NJ
Major: DUO
Minor (if any): HI (I think)
Years of Experience: 3
Extension (yes/no): Yes

Name: Eric Meyers
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year): Senior
School: Randolph
State: NJ
Major: HI
Minor (if any): DI
Years of Experience: 3
Extension (yes/no): Yes

Name: Kelsey Kilponen
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year): Sophomore
School: Randolph
State: NJ
Major: HI
Minor (if any): Not Sure
Years of Experience: 1
Extension (yes/no): Dont think so

Name: Drew Menconi
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year): Sr
School: Montville
State: NJ
Major: HI
Minor (if any):
Years of Experience: 3
Extension (yes/no): Yes

Name: Jen D'Angelo
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year): Senior
School: Montville
State: NJ
Major: HI
Minor (if any): DI
Years of Experience: 3
Extension (yes/no): Yes

Name: Matt Wilson
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year): Sophomore
School: Randolph
State: NJ
Major: HI
Minor (if any):
Years of Experience:1
Extension (yes/no): Dont think so, but Im not sure

Name: Lauren Iandoli
Grade (as of 2005-2006 school year): Senior
School: Randolph
State: NJ
Major: DI
Minor (if any):
Years of Experience:3
Extension (yes/no): Yes

I know there are more... but they are escaping me at the moment... but that's just a taste of NJ!

BTW- Tim- you are totally right about Stacy. I've had her both years I've been at camp, and love her! Im hoping to get her again. Shes awesome!

-Ben Kaufman

[AfRiCaNHI]

Dibs on Stacy, Mark and Jeff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The jetBlue Freak]

You can have Mark and Jeff (if Mark is there? Im not sure Mark Banks will be there, actually) but Stacy is ALL MINE!!! MINE MINE MINE I TELL YOU! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

...end randomness.

-b

[AfRiCaNHI]

No she is not. The only NJ people that have her are Eric Meyers and Cindy Jordano.

But hey, I have Deb Simon and Matt Friedman!!!!!!!!

My lab is the only one without anyone from Jersey in it. Aw, man :( ....

-Tope

[Mfried21]

well tope, technically there are no students in our lab that are from jersey, but I am...haha...our lab is gonna kick *** and we're gonna have a great time.

[AfRiCaNHI]

Dude, **** frickin' yeah!

This 1-2 minute "audition," is it like timed and they cut you off or whenever you're done?