85 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team compted virtually in the fourth Dogwood League Tournament of the year on Saturday January 23rd. For the fourth time this season CA was the overall sweepstakes champion at a Dogwood tournament with the following student placements contributing to the team's overall victory:
William Capps-2nd Place & Top Novice, Congressional Debate Ritvik Nalamothu-6th Place, Congressional Debate Austin Marchand-12th Place, Congressional Debate Jasmine Ye-6th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Adam Levin & Ayan Jung-1st Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Ellie Alvarez & Aanya Jain-3rd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Bryan Fang-4th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Folu Ogundipe-5th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Casey Powell-2nd Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Allie Chandler-3rd Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Adam Farris & Andrew Lake-3rd Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Evan Chang & Nash Brown-4th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Abby Li & Sarah Zhao-6th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Andrew Lake-9th Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Adam Farris-10th Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Andrew Lim-1st Place, Declamation Lexie Davlia-4th Place, Declamation Mickey Lewis-6th Place, Declamation JR Cobb-2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking & 4th Place, Informative Speaking Nitya Nalamothu-3rd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking & 1st Place, Impromptu Speaking Michael Singleton-5th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Emma Tang-2nd Place, Impromptu Speaking Sophia Liu-5th Place, Impromptu Speaking & 6th Place, Informative Speaking Katherine He-3rd Place, Informative Speaking Nika Kostenko-7th Place, Informative Speaking Sydney Tai-2nd Place, Original Oratory & 4th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation Sonia Shah-9th Place, Original Oratory Elise Boyse-10th Place, Original Oratory 45 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate competed virtually in the Cavalier Invitational hosted by Durham Academy over the weekend of January 16th-18th. Competing against a feild of 97 schools representing 28 states the team finished 3rd overall in Sweepstakes as well as in Debate sweepstakes. The following individual student performances contributed to the team's overall placement:
William Capps-Semifinalist, Congressional Debate Katherine He-3rd Place, Informative Speaking Rohen Giralt-Semifinals and 2nd Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Casey Powell-Semifinals & 13th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate & 5th Place, LD Challenge Allie Chandler-Double Octafinals & 11th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Adam Levin & Ayan Jung-1st Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Angelika Wang & Aditi Ahuja-Octafinals, Novice Public Forum Mickey Lewis-4th Place, Oratorical Declamation Anna Berger-5th Place, Oratorical Declamation Sydney Tai-Quarterfinals, Original Oratory & 5th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation Sonia Shah-Quarterfinals, Original Oratory Abby Li & Sarah Zhao-Triple Octafinals, Varsity Public Forum Debate 8 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed at the Laird Lewis Invitational hosted online by Myers Park High School the weekend of January 9th and 10th. The team had a strong showing with 6 of the 8 students reaching the elimination rounds of their respective events. Students went on the win the following recognition:
Casey Powell- Quarterfinals & 8th Place Speaker. Lincoln Douglas Debate Natasha Sachar- Octafinals & 5th Place Speaker, Lincoln Douglas Debate Evan Chang & Nash Brown- Octafinals, Public Forum Debate Julia Young- 2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking & 4th Place, Original Oratory Katherine He-2nd Place, Informative Speaking & 1st Place, Original Oratory |
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