17 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team traveled to Philadelphia over the middle of the trimester break to compete in the Villiger Tournament hosted by Saint Joseph's University. It was a very successful weekend as the team finished 8th in overall sweepstakes out of 75 schools from 10 different states. The team's effort was led by Alex Lim who was crowned the champion of Dramatic Performance as well as reaching the quarterfinals in Declamation, as well as Becca Segal who placed 3rd in Extemporaneous Speaking. Also reaching the elimination rounds of the speech events was Arielle Curtis who was a quarterfinalist in Oral Interpretation. On the debate side Saajan Patel reached the final session of Student Congress placing 10th overall, and both Will Aarons and Emily Wang reached the octafinals of Lincoln Douglas Debate. In addition Will was the 2nd Place Speaker, and Emily was 8th place.

58 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team made the short trip to Cary High School on Saturday November 9th to compete in the third DSDL tournament of the season. The team continued its streak of impressive performances this season winning overall sweepstakes for the sixth time this year, and for the tenth straight Dogwood tournament. The following student's individual placements contributed to the team's victory:
Ritvik Nalamothu-1st Place, Congressional Debate Chamber E
Jay Sagrolikar-3rd Place, Congressional Debate Chamber E
Sydney Tai-3rd Place, Declamation; 3rd Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Katherine He-4th Place, Declamation
Noor Alam-6th Place, Declamation; 5th Place & Top Novice, Impromptu Speaking
Grace Jaeger-Sandruck-9th Place, Declamation
Kat Browning-11th Place, Declamation; 10th Place, Impromptu Speaking
Emma Tang-12th Place, Declamation
Jared Seidel & Chailyn Washington-Thompson-6th Place, Duo Interpretation
Becca Segal-1st Place, Extemporaneous Speaking; 1st Place, Impromptu Speaking 
Vicky Jin-5th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking; 7th Place, Impromptu Speaking
Loren Troan-6th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking
Nita Nalamothu-Top Novice, Extemporaneous Speaking
Margalit Mermelstein-2nd Place, Impromptu Speaking
Hannah Gordon-6th Place, Impromptu Speaking; 11th Place, Original Oratory
Kenneth Williams-8th Place, Impromptu Speaking
Rohen Girault-3rd Place & 1st Place Speaker, Novice LD
William Su & Price Taylor-1st Place, Novice PF
Nash Brown & Christian Herrera-8th Place, Novice PF
William Su-3rd Place Speaker, Novice PF
Price Taylor-5th Place Speaker, Novice PF
Arielle Curtis-6th Place & Top Novice, Oral Interpretaton
Mary Kate Englehardt-9th Place & Top Novice, Original Oratory
Nica Kostenko-6th Place, Informative Speaking
Casey Powell-3rd Place & 6th Place Speaker, Varsity LD
Will Aarons-2nd Place Speaker, Varsity LD