On December 19th and 20th 34 novice members of the CA Speech and Debate team competed in the first annual Grey Matter Invitational hosted by the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team to raise funds to support the Spector Family Fund. Established in memory of Grey Spector an alumnus of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate program the Spector Family Fund is a merit based scholarship that covers a student's CA tuition for one year. It will be given annually to an Upper School student who exemplifies Grey spirit- his individuality and unwavering commitment to the pursuit of passions. The following students recieved recognition for their performances at the tournament:
William Capps-4th Place, Congressional Debate Samuel Lee-Semifinalist, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Vikram Kommareddi-Quarterfinlist, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Ayan Jung & Eric Xie-2nd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Adam Levin-2nd Place Speaker, Novice Public Forum Debate Eric Xie-3rd Place Speaker, Novice Public Forum Debate Ayan Jung-4th Place Speaker, Novice Public Forum Debate Andrew Lim-2nd Place & Top Novice, Declamation Anna Berger-4th Place Declamation Eric Ye-Top Novice, Extemporaneous Speaking Michael Singleton-4th Place, Impromptu Speaking Alexander Rousseau-5th Place, Impromptu Speaking 98 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed vitrually in the third Dogwood League tournament of the year on Saturday December 12th. For the thrid time this season CA won sweepstakes at a Dogwood tournament on the basis of the following outstanding individual performances:
Jay Sagrolikar-3rd Place, Congressional Debate Will Capps-11th Place, Congressional Debate Anay Kumar-9th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Katie Shen-11th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Samuel Lee-13th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Ayan Jung & Eric Xie-1st Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Maggie Su & Angelika Wang-6th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Matthew Corkey & Dhiren Parvathaneni-7th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Casey Powell-3rd Place & 3rd Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Natasha Sachar-4th Place & 4th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Emily Wang-5th Place & 7th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Anna Berger-5th Place & Top Novice, Declamation Lexie Davlia-6th Place, Declamation & 4th Place, Impromptu Speaking Nitya Nalmothu-2nd Place, Impromptu Speaking & 1st Place, Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking Sophia Liu-5th Place, Impromptu Speaking & 4th Place, Informative Speaking Sonia Shah-6th Place, Impromptu Speaking Katherine He-2nd Place, Informative Speaking & 6th Place, Original Oratory Nica Kostenko-3rd Place, Informative Speaking Maris James-1st Place, Novice Extemporaneous Speaking Christina Ploge-1st Place, Oral Interpretation Kali Bate-2nd Place, Oral Interpretation Benjamin Natan-8th Place, Original Oratory Miles Lubas-11th Place, Original Oratory Sydney Tai-2nd Place, Program of Oral Interpretation 39 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed virtually over the weekend of December 5th and 6th in the Patriot Games Classic hosted by George Mason University. The team placed 5th place in overall sweepstakes out of a field of 65 schools respresenting 18 states, replcating CA's best ever performance at this highly competitive tournament. Andrew Lim reached the final round of Declamation placing 4th overall. Owen Kadis reached the quarterfinal round of Extemporaneous Speaking, while Sophia Liu reached the semifinals of Impromptu Speaking with Sonia Shah and JR Cobb both reaching the quarterfinals. Katherine He, Sophia Liu, and JR Cobb all reached the semifinals of Informative Speaking, with Emma Tang reaching the quarterfinal round. Casey Powell was the champion of Lincoln Douglas Debate, and Bryan Fang and Kaeshev Alapati both reached the octafinal round as well. Christina Polge was a semifinalist in Oral Interpretation, Katherine He a semifinalist in Original Oratory, and Arielle Curtis a semifinalist in Program of Oral Interpretation. In Public Forim Debate three CA teams reached the elimination rounds with Adam Farris and Andrew Lake reaching quarters, and the teams of Olivia & Lincoln Willard and Adam Levin & Maddie Alvarez reaching the double ocatfinal round. The team of Farris and Lake were also recognized as the 3rd place Speakers.
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