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 Oratory 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 41 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed virtually online in the second annual Duke Invitational hosted by Duke University over the weekend of September 19th to 20th. CA had an outstanding showing finishing second place as a team in both overall sweepstakes and debate sweepstakes competing against 118 schools representing 24 states. The team's showing was based on the following individual student's placements:
Alex Lim-1st Place, Humorous Interpretation Christina Polge-4th Place, Oral Interpretation Katherine He-5th Place, Informative Speaking & Semifinals, Original Oratory Sophia Liu-Semifinals, Impromptu Speaking & Semifinals, Informative Speaking JR Cobb-Semifinals, Informative Speaking Sydney Tai-Semifinals, Program of Oral Interpretation Bryan Fang-Semifinals & 12th Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate William Su & Price Taylor- Quarterfinals, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Evan Chang & Michael Singleton-Octafinals, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Evan Chang-12th Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Christain Herrera-13th Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Michael Singleton-15th Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Natasha Sachar-Quarterfinals, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Allie Chandler-Double Octafinals & 10th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Emily Wang-9th Place Speaker-Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Adam Farris & Andrew Lake-Quarterfinals, Varsity Public Forum Debate Georgia Moorhead & Aanya Sachdeva, Double Octafinals, Varsity Public Forum Debate Abby Li & Sarah Zhao, Double Ocatfinals, Varsity Public Foru Debate Georgia Moorhead-11th Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Andrew Lake-12th Place Soeaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate |
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