Eight members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team traveled to Philadelphia Pennsylvania over the weekend of November 19th thru 20th to compete in the Villiger tournament hosted by St. Joseph's University. Will Capps was the champion of Congressional Debate while Avani Bhat and Hailey Zhang were the runners up in Declamation and Informative Speaking respectively. Andrew Lim placed 3rd in Dramatic Performance and Jacob Farris placed 3rd in Informative. Anna Berger was also a semifinalist in Original Oratory.
Four members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed virtually over the weekend of November 19th thru 20th in the Glenbrooks tournament hosted by Glenbrook North and South High Schools. The teams of Fiona Hu and Rebecca Liu and Nash Brown and Adam Levin both reached the Double Octafinals of Varsity Public Forum Debate placing in the top 32 of 170 teams. Adam Levin was the 5th Place Speaker and Rebecca Liu was 19th.
10 members of the CA Speech and Debate team traveled to Asheville to compete in the Cougar Classic hosted by Asheville High School on Saturday November 19th. Emma Zhang was the champion of Informative Speaking, while Michael Singleton placed 5th in Extemporaneous Speaking and 4th in Impromptu Speaking. Riley Ro placed 7th in Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate.
62 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team made the short trip to Cary High School on Saturday November 12th to compete in the third Dogwood Speech and Debate League tournament of the year. For the fourth time this year and the third time at a Dogwood tournament CA was the overall sweepstakes champion. The following individual student performances contributed to the team's overall placement:
Will Capps-4th Place, Congressional Debate Akash Mani-11th Place, Congressional Debate Rehan Mahmood-10th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Anjali Narahari-12th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Raya Jung & DaphneDiFrancesca-4th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Serena Patel & Joyce Xu-6th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Alex Liu & Patrick Liu-10th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Fiona Hu & Ella Zhang-2nd Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Ayan Jung & Adam Levin-3rd Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Ella Zhang-Top Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Henry Lim-1st Place & Top Novice, Declamation Maria Schaeffer-3rd Place, Declamation Avani Bhat-4th Place, Declamation Kajal Palmer-6th Place, Declamation Nitya Nalamothu-1st Place, Extemporaneous Speaking & 2nd Place, Impromptu Speaking Anna Berger-3rd Place, Impromptu Speaking & 2nd Place, Original Oratory Reid Beatty-5th Place & Top Novice, Impromptu Speaking Isabel Chang-7th Place, Impromptu Speaking & 4th Place, Original Oratory Hailey Zhang-2nd Place, Informative Speaking Six members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed virtually on Saturday November 5th in the Autum Classic hosted by North Hall High School in Gainesville Georgia. Mason Herr was named the champion of Congressional Debate, while Rebecca Liu and Kajal Parmar were the runners-up in Open Lincoln Douglas Debate and Impromptu Speaking respectively. Sarah Hussain also placed 4th in Open LD.
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