23 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team participated in the virtual state championship hosted by the Tarheel Forensic League on Saturday April 30th. The team had an excellent showing placing second in overal sweepstakes, as well as second in both debate sweeps and speech sweeps. Isabel Chang was named the state champion in Declamation and the runner -up in Impromptu Speaking; and Casey Powell was undefeated and the top seed in the preliminary rounds before advacing to the final round to finish as the runner-up in Lincoln Douglas Debate. The full results are listed below:
Emma Zhang-6th Place, Congressional Debate Casey Powell-2nd Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Rohen Giralt-Semifinals, Lincoln Douglas Debate Fiona Hu & Ella Zhang-Semifinals, Public Forum Debate Isabel Chang-1st Place, Declamation & 2nd Place, Impromptu Speaking Adithi Ahuja-2nd Place, Declamation Asha Gupta-3rd Place, Declamation Christopher Kelly-6th Place, Declamation Christain Herrera-5th Place, Impromptu Speaking Sydney Tai-3rd Place, Original Oratory Four members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed virtually over the weekend of April 23rd thru 25th in the annual Tournament of Champions hosted by the University of Kentucky. Katherine He reached the semifinals of Informative Speaking were she placed 11th.
32 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team traveled to Southern Pines over the weekend of April 2nd and 3rd to participate in the Tarheel Forensic League State Championship tournament hosted by Pinecrest High School. Competing in the team's first in person tournament in over two years resulted in an excellent showing as CA won first place in the Kurt Earnest Speech Sweepstakes and placed 3rd in the Governor's Cup for overall sweepstakes. For the second year in a row CA had two individual state champions as Katherine He repeated as the state champion in Informative Speaking and JR Cobb was the state champion in Impromptu Speaking. The full results of the tournament were as follows:
Andrew Lim, 2nd Place Declamation Anna Berger, 4th Place, Declamation Isabel Chang, 5th Place, Declamation & 6th Place, Impromptu Speaking Jackson McCall, 3rd Place, Dramatic/Humorous Interpretation JR Cobb-5th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking; 1st Place, Impromptu Speaking & 3rd Place, Original Oratory Nitya Nalamothu-6th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Katherine He-1st Place, Informative Speaking Emma Tang-6th Place, Original Oratory Rebecca Liu, Semifinalist, Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Cam Hu & Anya Jain, Octafinalists, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Bryan Fang, Quarterfinalist, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate |
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