98 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed vitrually in the third Dogwood League tournament of the year on Saturday December 12th. For the thrid time this season CA won sweepstakes at a Dogwood tournament on the basis of the following outstanding individual performances:
Jay Sagrolikar-3rd Place, Congressional Debate
Will Capps-11th Place, Congressional Debate
Anay Kumar-9th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Katie Shen-11th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Samuel Lee-13th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Ayan Jung & Eric Xie-1st Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Maggie Su & Angelika Wang-6th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Matthew Corkey & Dhiren Parvathaneni-7th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate 
Casey Powell-3rd Place & 3rd Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Natasha Sachar-4th Place & 4th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Emily Wang-5th Place & 7th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Anna Berger-5th Place & Top Novice, Declamation
Lexie Davlia-6th Place, Declamation & 4th Place, Impromptu Speaking
Nitya Nalmothu-2nd Place, Impromptu Speaking & 1st Place, Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking
Sophia Liu-5th Place, Impromptu Speaking & 4th Place, Informative Speaking
Sonia Shah-6th Place, Impromptu Speaking
Katherine He-2nd Place, Informative Speaking & 6th Place, Original Oratory
Nica Kostenko-3rd Place, Informative Speaking
Maris James-1st Place, Novice Extemporaneous Speaking
Christina Ploge-1st Place, Oral Interpretation
Kali Bate-2nd Place, Oral Interpretation
Benjamin Natan-8th Place, Original Oratory
Miles Lubas-11th Place, Original Oratory
Sydney Tai-2nd Place, Program of Oral Interpretation

39 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed virtually over the weekend of December 5th and 6th in the Patriot Games Classic hosted by George Mason University. The team placed 5th place in overall sweepstakes out of a field of 65 schools respresenting 18 states, replcating CA's best ever performance at this highly competitive tournament. Andrew Lim reached the final round of Declamation placing 4th overall. Owen Kadis reached the quarterfinal round of Extemporaneous Speaking, while Sophia Liu reached the semifinals of Impromptu Speaking with Sonia Shah and JR Cobb both reaching the quarterfinals. Katherine He, Sophia Liu, and JR Cobb all reached the semifinals of Informative Speaking, with Emma Tang reaching the quarterfinal round. Casey Powell was the champion of Lincoln Douglas Debate,  and Bryan Fang and Kaeshev Alapati both reached the octafinal round as well. Christina Polge was a semifinalist in Oral Interpretation, Katherine He a semifinalist in Original Oratory, and Arielle Curtis a semifinalist in Program of Oral Interpretation. In Public Forim Debate three CA teams reached the elimination rounds with Adam Farris and Andrew Lake reaching quarters,  and the teams of Olivia & Lincoln Willard  and Adam Levin & Maddie Alvarez reaching the double ocatfinal round. The team of Farris and Lake were also recognized as the 3rd place Speakers.

A group of 35 members of the CA Speech and Debate team competed virtually in the Villiger Tournament hosted by St. Joseph's University over the weekend of November 21st-22nd. The team had an outstanding showing finishing 7th out of 70 schools from 15 different states in overall sweepstakes. Price Taylor and William Su reached the Octafinal round of Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate and William was the 6th Place Speaker. In Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Casey Powell was undefeated in prelims and finished as the top seed before losing in the quarterfinal round. He was also the 2nd Place Speaker and Natasha Sachar was 7th. In Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Jasmine Ye was the 4th Place Speaker. In Declamation Andrew Lim reached the final round placing 6th, Anna Berger the semifinal round placing 9th, and Lexis Davlia the quarterfinal round placing her in the top 18 of 48 entries. Alex Lim reached the semifinals of Dramatic Performance placing 7th out of 34 entries. Katherine He double broke to finals placing 2nd in Informative Speaking and 6th in Original Oratory.

On Saturday November 14th 115 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed virtually in the second Dogwood Speech and Debate League tournament of the year. The team turned in another dominant showing winning overall sweepstakes for the thrid time this season. The following individual student performances contributed to the team's overall victory:
Ritvik Nalamothu-2nd Place, Congressional Debate
Jay Sagrolikar-3rd Place, Congressional Debate
Rohan Nagalia-Finalist, Congressional Debate
Camryn Freidman-Finalist, Congressional Debate
Alexander Moore-Finalist, Congressional Debate
Adam Levin-3rd Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Jayden Chawla-10th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Maggie Su-11th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Vikram Kommareddi-12th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Ayan Jung & Eric Xie-1st Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Anika Gupta & Charlotte Dadd-9th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Allie Chandler-2nd Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Folu Ogundipe-3rd Place & 6th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Natasha Sachar-4th Place & 5th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Emily Wang-4th Place Speaker-Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
William Su & Price Taylor-1st Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate
Adam Farris & Andrew Lake-4th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate
Adam Farris-4th Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate
William Su-9th Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate
Mickey Lewis-1st Place & Top Novice, Declamation
Lexie Davlia-3rd Place, Declamation & 2nd Place, Impromptu Speaking
Anna Berger-7th Place, Declamation
Jay Young Sihm-8th Place, Declamation
Samantha Perez-11th Place, Declamation
Jacob Farris-12th Place, Declamation
Alexander Rousseau-13th Place, Declamation
Alex Lim-2nd Place, Dramatic Performance
Vicky Jin-3rd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking & 5th Place, Impromptu SpeakingChri
Nitya Nalamothu-4th Place, Extemporaneous Spwaking
Ella Gupta-5th Place & Top Novice, Extemporaneous Speaking
Maddi Macchi-6th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking
Sophia Liu-1st Place, Impromptu Speaking & 5th Place, Varsity Informative Speaking
Christina Polge-1st Place, Oral Interpretation
Kali Bate-2nd Place, Oral Interpretation
Grace Sandruck-Jaeger-3rd Place, Oral Interpretation
Katherine He-4th Place, Original Oratory & 2nd Place, Varsity Informative Speaking
Sonia Shah-7th Place, Original Oratory
JR Cobb-9th Place, Original Oratory & 6th Place, Varsity Informative Speaking
Benjamin Natan-10th Place, Original Oratory
Sydney Tai-5th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Nica Kostenko-3rd Place, Varsity Informative Speaking

34 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed in the Florida Blue Key Tournament held vitrually over the weekend of October 30th thru November 1st. Jay Sagrolikar reached the semifinals of Student Congress placing in the top 54 of 179 competitors. In Novice Public Forum Debate the team of Adam Levin and Maddie Alvarez reached the Octafinal round placing them in the top 16 of 45 entries. Ellie Alvarez was the 3rd Place Speaker, Anya Jain was 4th, Eric Xie 7th, and Ayan Jung 8th. In Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Anna Titcomb reached the Semifinal Round (Top 4), Jasmine Ye the Quarterfinal round (Top 8) and Hamza Adan the Octafinal round (Top 9). Anna Titcomb was also the 7th Place Speaker.

20 members of the CA Speech and Debate team competed virtually in the New York City Invitational hosted by the Bronx High School of Science over the weekend of October 16th thru 18th. Katherine He reached the semifinals of Informative Speaking placing in the top 12 of 62 competitors. Sydney Tai reached the semifinals of Program of Oral Interpretation placing in the top 8 of 41 competitors. Rohen Giralt reached the semifinals of Junior Varisty Lincoln Douglas Debate placing in the top 4 of 53 entries. In addition the Junior Varsity Public Forum teams of Evan Chang and Nash Brown, and William Su and Price Taylor reached the Double Octafinal round placing them in the top 32 of 98 teams.

108 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed in the first Dogwood Speech and Debate League tournament of the year hosted virtually on Saturday October 10th. CA had a strong showing across the board leading it to the overall sweepstakes championship for the 3rd straight Dogwood League tournament dating back to last season. The following individual student placements contributed to the team's overall success:
Ritivik Nalamothu-4th Place, Varsity Congressional Debate
Priyanka Patel-8th Place, Varsity Congressional Debate
Oliver Moore-10th Place, Varsity Congressional Debate
Camryn Friedman-12th Place, Varsity Congressional Debate
Rohan Nangalia-1st Place, Novice Congressional Debate
Angelika Wang-3rd Place, Novice Congressional Debate
Nishant Pai-4th Place, Novice Congressional Debate
Maggie Su-7th Place, Novice Congressional Debate
Owen Taffar-10th Place, Novice Congressional Debate
Jayden Chawla-5th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Katie Shen-9th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Adam Levin & Maddie Alvarez-2nd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Aryan Jung & Eric Xie-6th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Ellie Alvarez & Anya Jain-7th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Folu Ogundipe-1st Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Casey Powell-2nd Place & 1st Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Natasha Sachar-3rd Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Allie Chandler-6th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Emily Wang-7th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Bryan Fang-8th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Adam Farris & Andrew Lake-2nd Place, Varsity Pubic Forum Debate
Han Zhang & Aryan Nair-4th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate
Price Taylor & William Su-5th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate
Kareena Sheshadri-3rd Place, Declamation & 5th Place, Impromptu Speaking
Andrew Lim-4th Place, Declamation
Anna Berger-5th Place, Declamation
Mickey Lewis-7th Place, Declamation
Samantha Perez-11th Place, Declamation
Nitya Nalamothu-2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking & 3rd Place, Impromptu Speaking
Julia Young-3rd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking
Katherine He-1st Place, Informative Speaking & 5th Place, Original Oratory
Sophia Liu-2nd Place, Informative Speaking
JR Cobb-5th Place, Informative Speaking
Nica Kostenko-6th Place, Informative Speaking
Christina Polge-1st Place, Oral Interpretation
Kali Bate-2nd Place, Oral Interpretation
Grace Jaeger-Sandruck-3rd Place, Oral Interpretation
Hannah Gordon-11th Place, Original Oratory
Elise Boyse-12th Place, Original Oratory
Sydney Tai-3rd Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Arielle Curtis-5th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Claire Ferris-6th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation

18 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate competed virtually in the Yale Invitational over the weekend of October 2nd thru 4th. The team had a strong showing with six of the eighteen students competing reaching the elimination rounds in their respective events. Alex Lim was the champion of Humorous Interpretation placing first out of 88 competitiors. Katherine He reached the semifinals of Informative Speaking placing her in the top 15 of 90 competitors. Christina Polge reached the semifinals of Oral Interpetation placing her in the 18 of 54 competitors. Jay Sagrolikar reached the quarterfinals of Congressional Debate placing in the top 120 of 291 competitors. The Junior Varsity Public Forum team of Nash Brown and Evan Chang reached the Triple Octafinal round placing them in the top 56 of 163 teams.

Two Cary Academy students participated virtually in the Holy Cross Navy and Gold Debate and Speech Exhibition hosted by the Holy Cross School of New Orleans. Casey Powell reached the quarterfinals of Lincoln Douglas Debate and Katherine He was the runner-up in Original Oratory.

On Saturday September 26th 103 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team, the most ever for a single tournament, competed virtually in the Pinecrest Open hosted by Pinecrest High School. The team turned in a dominant performance winning overall sweepstakes at this tournament for the thrid straight year. The following individual student placements contributed to the team's overall victory:
Alex Lim-1st Place, Dramatic Performance
Julia Young-1st Place, Extemporaneous Speaking & 4th Place, Original Ora
Bayla Sheshadri-1st Place, Informative Speaking
Sydney Tai-1st Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Adam Farris & Andrew Lake-1st Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate
Maggie Su-1st Place, Novice Congressional Debate Chamber 1
Angelika Wang-1st Place, Novice Congressional Debate Chamber 2
Emily Zhen-2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking
Sophia Liu-2nd Place, Impromptu Speaking & 3rd Place, Informative Speaking
Adam Levin & Maddie Alvarez-2nd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Jordan Miller-2nd Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Sanjana Jotwani & Miles Rameee-2nd Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate
Austin Marchand-2nd Place, Novice Congressional Debate Chamber 1
William Capps-2nd Place, Novice Congressional Debate Chamber 2
Camryn Friedman-2nd Place, Varsity Congressional Debate Chamber 1
Emma Tang-3rd Place, Impromptu Speaking & 6th Place, Informative Speaking
Nitya Nalamothu-3rd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking
Samuel Lee-3rd Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Dhiren Parvathaneni & Matthew Corkey-3rd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Elise Boyse-3rd Place, Original Oratory
Han Zhang & Aryan Nair-3rd Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate
Oliver Moore-3rd Place, Varsity Congressional Debate Chamber 2
Owen Kadis-4th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking
Kareena Sheshadri-4th Place Impromptu Speaking
Claire Ferris-4th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Katherine He-4th Place, Informative Speaking & 5th Place, Original Oratory
Salim Alvi-4th Place, Novice Congressional Debate Chamber 1
Alexander Moore-4th, Novice Congressional Debate Chamber 2
Priyanka Patel-4th Place, Varsity Congressional Debate Chamber 1
Ella Gupta-5th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking
Arjun Manhare-5th Place, Dramatic Performance
Lexie Davila-5th Place, Declamation & 6th Place, Impromptu Speaking
Grace Jaeger-Sandruck-5th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Allie Chandler-5th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Maya Shah-5th Place, Novice Congressional Debate Chamber 2
Mickey Lewis-6th Place, Declamation
Anisha Rustogi-6th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking
Thuy Dzu & Sawyer Spector-6th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Dena Etkin-6th Place, Original Oratory
Christina Polge-6th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Natasha Sachar-6th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Claire Kim-6th Place, Varsity Congressional Debate Chamber 2
Jiayin Hu & Aditi Ahuja-7th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Allen He & Neha Sharma-11th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate