15 members of the CA Speech and Debate team traveled to Chicago over the weekend of November 17th-19th to compete in the Glenbrooks tournament hosted by Glenbrook North and South High Schools; the largest tournament in the country hosted by a high school. CA had two students clear to the elimination rounds as Cade Spector and Sajaan Patel both advanced to the semifinals of Congressional Debate placing them in the top 60 of 212 entries. 

Seven members of the Lincoln Douglas Debate squad traveled to Philadelphia over the weekend of November 17th to 19th to compete in the Villiger Speech and Debate Tournament hosted by St. Joseph's University. The team had an outstanding showing has 3 LDers advanced to the elimination rounds, the largest number of any school. Viraj Shah and Milen Patel both reached the quarterfinal round before losing, while Krishan Guzzo was eliminated in the octafinal round.

45 members of the  Cary Academy Speech and Debate team made the short trip down the street to Cary High School to compete in the fourth Dogwood League tournament of the year. The team finished the day as the sweepstakes runner-up with many individual student placements contributing to the team's showing. Those were:
​Evan Ehrhardt-1st Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Eric Xing-1st Place, Novice LD
​Jay Sagrolikar-2nd Place, Novice LD
​Evan Ehrhardt & Grace Wissink- 2nd Place, Duo Interpretation
​Cade Spector-2nd Place, Student Congress Chamber C
​Becca Segal-2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking
​Ben Lipson-3rd Place, Student Congress Chamber A
​Will Aarons-3rd Place, Varsity LD
Grace Seidel-3rd Place, Original Oratory
Claire Ferris & Obinna Modilum- 3rd Place, Novice PF
​Ava Autry-4th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Sarah George-5th Place, Declamation
Margalit Mermelstein-5th Place, Oral Interpretation
​Viraj Shah-5th Place, Varsity LD
​Arm Kassam & Matthew Schaeffer- 5th Place, Varsity PF
Nica Kostenko-6th Place, Declamation
​Grace Wissink-6th Place, Dramatic Interpretation
​Anisha Rustogi-6th Place, Novice LD
Caroline Spancake-7th Place, Original Oratory
​Han Zhang & Olivia Willard-7th Place, Novice PF
​ThucUyen Dzu-8th Place, Novice LD
Ritvik Nalamothu-12th Place, Novice LD
​Lincoln Willard & Max Feliu-12th Place, Novice PF

CA was the overall sweepstakes champion for the third consecutive Dogwood Speech and Debate League Tournament after 52 members of the team traveled to Fayetteville on Saturday November 4th to compete in Dogwood #3 at Jack Britt High School. The following students individual performances contributed to the team's overall victory.
Aesha Desia- 1st, Oral Interpretation 
Alex Knott and Aditya Surana- 1st, Varsity Public Forum Debate 
Anna Ibrahim- 1st, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Becca Segal- 1st, Extemporaneous Speaking 
Cade Spector- 1st, Student Congress Chamber A
Caroline Spancake- 1st, Original Oratory 
Evan Ehrhardt- 1st, Program Oral Interpretation 
Vicky Jin- 1st, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Jessica Zhong- 2nd, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Isaac Fan and Riya Thomas- 2nd, Varsity Public Forum Debate 
Saajan Patel- 2nd, Student Congress Chamber A
Shannon Jenkins- 2nd, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate 
Aleksia Kleine- 3rd, Student Congress Chamber B
Cate Pitterle- 3rd,Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Claire Ferris and Obinna Modilum- 3rd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate 
Ritvik Nalamothu- 3rd Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Bayla Sheshardi and Georgia Moorhead- 4th, Novice Public Forum Debate 
Madisen Placzowski- 4th, Extemporaneous Speaking 
Will Aarons, 4th- Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Lily Levin- 5th, Original Oratory 
Ava Autry- 6th, Program Oral Interpretation
Ivan Petropolous- 6th, Student Congress Chamber A