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.