To start off the season, 23 members of the CA Speech and Debate Program attended the UK Season Opener online from September 8th through September 11th. Several CA students broke past preliminary rounds and we had several notable performances. Rehan Mahmood advanced to triple octofinals in Lincoln Douglas. In Public Forum, the team of Jain & Ravulapati broke to triple octofinals, the team of Jung & Levin broke to double octofinals, and the team of Hu & Zhang advanced to quarterfinals and secured their first gold bid of the season! Ayan Jung also placed 10th in speaker points. Kajal Parmar advanced to semifinals in Extemporaneous speaking. In Original Oratory Isabel Chang took home 6th place. Finally, Hailey Zhang was our overall champion in Info securing a TOC bid!!!!
While the rest of the team stayed in NC to compete virtually at UK, 5 members of Cary Academy Speech and Debate braved Texas' Grapevine Classic this past weekend from September 8th through September 10th. Riley Ro was a Double Octofinalist in Varsity Lincoln Douglas as well as the 10th place speaker and Derek Han progressed to Octofinals in Varsity Lincoln Douglas and was the 12th place speaker. |
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