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41 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed virtually online in the second annual Duke Invitational hosted by Duke University over the weekend of September 19th to 20th. CA had an outstanding showing finishing second place as a team in both overall sweepstakes and debate sweepstakes competing against 118 schools representing 24 states. The team's showing was based on the following individual student's placements:
Alex Lim-1st Place, Humorous Interpretation Christina Polge-4th Place, Oral Interpretation Katherine He-5th Place, Informative Speaking & Semifinals, Original Oratory Sophia Liu-Semifinals, Impromptu Speaking & Semifinals, Informative Speaking JR Cobb-Semifinals, Informative Speaking Sydney Tai-Semifinals, Program of Oral Interpretation Bryan Fang-Semifinals & 12th Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate William Su & Price Taylor- Quarterfinals, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Evan Chang & Michael Singleton-Octafinals, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Evan Chang-12th Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Christain Herrera-13th Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Michael Singleton-15th Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Natasha Sachar-Quarterfinals, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Allie Chandler-Double Octafinals & 10th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Emily Wang-9th Place Speaker-Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Adam Farris & Andrew Lake-Quarterfinals, Varsity Public Forum Debate Georgia Moorhead & Aanya Sachdeva, Double Octafinals, Varsity Public Forum Debate Abby Li & Sarah Zhao, Double Ocatfinals, Varsity Public Foru Debate Georgia Moorhead-11th Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Andrew Lake-12th Place Soeaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate 11 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed in the National Speech and Debate Association's National Tournament held virtually during the week of June 15th thru 20th. The National Speech and Debate Tournament is the largest academic competition in the world and this year there were 6,659 competitors from 1322 different schools who competed. Saajan Patel reached the finals of the Senate of Congressional Debate placing 12th overall out of 192 competitors. Jay Sagrolikar advanced to the quarterfinals of the House of Congressional Debate after placing first in his prelim chamber finishing in the top 120 of 464 competitors. Han Zhang was the 8th Place Speaker in World Schools Debate out of over 800 competitors, and his World Schools teams advanced to the elimination rounds were they were eliminated in the round of 64. Will Aarons was the 16th place speaker in Lincoln Douglas Debate out of a field of 254 competitors. Cary Academy was recognized as a Debate School of Honor to recognize the top 50 schools in the Debate events at the National Tournament. CA was also recognized for attending its 20th National Tournament as well. CA students have qualified to compete at Nationals every year since 2001, and this was the fourth straight year that a Cary Academy student has been recognized at the National Awards Assembly by placing in the top 14 in their respective events. Other CA students who competed at Nationals were Arielle Curtis in Dramatic Interpretation, Alex Lim in Humorous Interpretation, Sydney Tai in Program of Oral Interpretation, Bayla Sheshadri in Original Oratory, Vicky Jin in United States Extemporaneous Speaking, Anisha Rustogi in Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking, and Emily Wang in Would Schools Debate.
20 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed in the Tarheel East NSDA District Tournament for Speech and Debate events hosted virtually over the weekend of April 25th-26th. CA had an outstanding showing finishing second overall in sweepstakes and adding an additional 9 qualifers to the National Tournament in June. Qualifying to the Nationals were:
The full results of the district tournament were as follows:
Will Aarons-3rd Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Abby Li & Sarah Zhao-5th Place, Public Forum Debate Arielle Curtis-4th Place, Dramatic Interpretation Jared Siedel & Chalilyn Washington-Thompson-3rd Place, Duo Interpretation Alex Lim-1st Place, Humorous Interpretation Bayla Sheshadri-3rd Place, Informative Speaking; 3rd Place, Original Oratory Vicky Jin-2nd Place, International Extemporaneous Speaking; 2nd Place, United States Extemporaneous Speaking Anisha Rustogi-3rd Place, International Extemporaneous Speaking; 4th Place, United States Extemporaneous Speaking Julia Young-5th Place, Original Oratory Sydney Tai-2nd Place, Program of Oral Interpretation Olivia Zimmerman-4th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation 29 members of the Cary Academy Speech participated in the DSDL Novice Championship on Saturday February 29th hosted on Cary Academy's campus. CA had an outstanding showing winning individual championships in five different events and emerging as the overall sweepstakes champion. CA students have now won DSDL Novice Championsips 17 times over the tournament's five year history, including winning Lincoln Douglas Debate for the last four years running. Individual student placements were as follows:
Camryn Friedman-2nd Place, Congressional Debate Priyanka Patel-4th Place, Congressional Debate Bryan Fang-1st Place & 1st Place Speaker, Lincoln Douglas Debate William Su & Price Taylor-5th Place, Public Forum Debate Nash Brown-1st Place Speaker, Novice Public Forum Debate Michael Singleton-4th Place Speaker, Novice Public Forum Debate Kat Browning-5th Place, Declamation; 5th Place, Impromptu Speaking; 3rd Place, Original Oratory Arielle Curtis-1st Place, Dramatic Performance; 1st Place-Prose; 1st Place-Poetry Nitya Nalamothu-1st Place, Extemporaneous Speaking EJ Jo-2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Ben Natan-5th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Ford Khoudary-6th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Emma Tang-4th Place, Impromptu Speaking; 2nd Place-Informative Speaking Kareena Sheshadri-6th Place, Impromptu Speaking Mary Kate Englehardt-2nd Place, Original Oratory 13 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team competed on Saturday February 29th in the Tarheel East District National Qualifier in Congressional Debate hosted on CA's campus. After an intense day of competition CA emerged with two qualifiers to the National Tournament to be held in June as Cary Academy students were crowned the champions in both the House and Senate Chambers. Saajan Patel placed first in the Senate and Jay Sagrolikar placed 1st in the House each qualifying to Nationals for the second straight year. Both Jay and Ritvik Nalamothu placed first in their preliminary chambers to advance to the final session of House where Ritvik finished as the fifth alternate to Nationals. This is the ninth straight year CA has qualified for nationals in Congressional Debate, including six straight years were multiple students have qualified.
66 members of the CA Speech and Debate competed in the sixth and final Dogwood League tournament of the year hosted by Apex Friendship High School on February 22nd. For the fifth time in six league tournaments this season Cary Academy emerged as the overall sweepstakes champion based on the following students strong performances in their respective events:
Ritvik Nalamothu-1st Place, Congressional Debate Chamber B Jay Sagrolikar-2nd Place, Congressional Debate Chamber B Saajan Patek-2nd Place, Congressional Debate Chamber A Anya Abhayakumar-7th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate William Su & Price Taylor-3rd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Casey Powell-3rd Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Georgia Moorhead & Han Zhang-6th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Georgia Moorhead-2nd Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Sydney Tai-1st Place, Declamation; 3rd Place, Program of Oral Interpretation Alex Lim-2nd Place, Declamation; 7th Place, Dramatic Performance Kat Browning-4th Place, Declamation; 12th Place, Impromptu Speaking Katherine He-5th Place, Declamation Sophia Liu-6th Place, Declamation; 3rd Place & Top Novice, Impromptu Speaking Jared Siedel & Chailyn Washington-Thompson-1st Place, Duo Interpretation Becca Segal-1st Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Owen Kadis-2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Anisha Rustogi-3rd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Emily Zhen-4th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Parker Courts-5th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Nitya Nalamothu-6th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking JR Cobb-5th Place, Impromptu Speaking Sonia Shah-10th Place, Impromptu Speaking; 5th Place, Original Oratory Kali Bate-4th Place, Oral Interpretation Arielle Curtis-5th Place & Top Novice, Oral Interpretation Hannah Gordon-6th Place, Original Oratory Olivia Zimmerman-1st Place, Program of Oral Interpretation As this was the final Dogwood League tournament of the year honors and awards were presented based on performances throughout the season at all Dogwood tournaments. For the fifth straight year Cary Academy was recognized with the Carole Hamilton Award which regognizes the school which accumulates the most sweepstakes points at the six league tournaments throughout the season. In addition the following individual students recieved awards: Points Race Champions: Sydney Tai-Declamation Becca Segal-Extemporaneous Speaking Sophia Liu-Impromptu Speaking NCFL Grand Nationals Qualifiers
56 members of the CA Speech and Debate team, the most ever, traveled to Cambridge Massachusetts over President's Day weekend to compete in the Harvard National Forensics Tournament. Competing against students from 430 different schools representing 37 different states the following students were recognized for their performance:
Saajan Patel-Semifinals, Congressional Debate Jay Sagrolikar-Quarterfinals, Congressional Debate Ritvik Nalamothu-Quarterfinals, Congressional Debate Jared Seidel & Chailyn Washington-Thompson-Octafinals, Duo Interpretation Alex Lim-Semifinals, Humorous Interpretation Casey Powell-Double Octafinals, Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Natasha Sacha-Triple Octafinals, Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Emily Wang-Triple Octafinals, Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Oliver Wang-Triple Octafinals & 7th Place Speaker, Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Anya Sachdeva & Aryan Nair-Octafinals, Junior Varsity Public Forum Debate Andrew Lake & Adam Farris-Triple Octafinals, Junior Varsity Public Debate 61 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team traveled to Hope Mills on Saturday Febraury 8th to particpate in the fifth Dogwood League tournament of the year hosted by South View High School. The team emerged as the overall sweepstakes champion for the fourth time at a Dogwood League tournament this season based on the following outstanding individual performances:
Saajan Patel-2nd Place, Congressional Debate Chamber B Ritvik Nalamothu-2nd Place, Congressonal Debate Chamber C Kate Sandrueter-5th Place, Novice LD Bryan Fang-8th Place, Novice LD Casey Powell-3rd Place & 4th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Jessica Zhong-5th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Emily Wang-6th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Georgia Moorhead & Han Zhang-2nd Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Aryan Nair & Aanya Sachdeva-6th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Han Zhang-1st Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Aanya Sachdeva-2nd Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Georgia Moorhead-3rd Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Aryan Nair-4th Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Alex Lim-1st Place, Declamation; 1st Place, Dramatic Performance Sydney Tai-2nd Place, Declamation Katherine He-3rd Place, Declamation Miles Lubas-4th Place, Declamation Arielle Curtis-3rd Place & Top Novice, Dramatic Performance Jared Siedel & Chailyn Washington-Thompson-1st Place, Duo Interpretation Becca Segal & Kenneth Williams-2nd Place, Duo Interpretation Becca Segal-2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Vicky Jin-4th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Sonia Shah-7th Place, Impromptu Speaking Hannah Gordon-9th Place, Impromptu Speaking; 6th Place, Original Oratory Sophia Liu-11th Place, Impromptu Speaking Margalit Mermelstein-12th Place, Impromptu Speaking JR Cobb-5th Place, Informative Speaking Mary Kate Englehardt-4th Place & Top Novice, Original Oratory Sydney Tai-4th Place, Program of Oral Interpetation 44 members of the CA Speech and Debate team traveled to Newport, NC on Saturday February 1st to compete in the fourth Dogwood tournament of the season hosted by Croatan High School. The team had an outstanding showing placing 2nd in overall sweepstakes missing out on first place by one point. The following students performance contributed to the team's overall placement:
Jay Sagrolikar-4th Place, Congressional Debate Saajan Patel-5th Place, Congressional Debate Rohen Giralt-2nd Place & 1st Place Speaker, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Nash Brown & Christian Herrera-6th Place, Novice Public Forum Jessica Zhong-2nd Place & 2nd Place Speaker-Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Allie Chandler-3rd Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Will Aarons-6th Place & 6th Place Speaker, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Allen He & Brian Wei-4th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Adam Farris & Sanjana Jotwani-5th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Adithi Sundaram & Erin Singelton-6th Place, Varsity Public Forum Adam Farris-1st Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Adithi Sundaram-3rd Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Sanjana Jotwani-4th Place Speaker, Varsity Public Forum Debate Sophia Liu-2nd Place, Declamation; 1st Place & Top Novice, Impromptu Speaking Emma Tang-4th Place, Declamation Kat Browning-6th Place, Declamation Jordan Miller-7th Place, Declamation Arielle Curtis-7th Place & Top Novice, Dramatic Performance; 4th Place & Top Novice, Oral Interpretation Becca Segal & Kenneth Williams, 3rd Place, Duo Interpretation Becca Segal-1st Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Viky Jin-2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Nitya Nalamothu-3rd Place & Top Novice, Extemporaneous Speaking Hannah Gordon-3rd Place, Impromptu Speaking Kareena Shashedri-4th Place, Impromptu Speaking Danica Ginsberg-5th Place, Impromptu Speaking Kat Browning-6th Place, Impromptu Speaking Kali Bate-6th Place, Oral Interpretation Julia Young-4th Place, Original Oratory Six members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team traveled to Atlanta, Georgia over the the weekend of January 24-26 to compete in the Barkley Forum for High Schools hosted by Emory University. Saajan Patel and Jay Sagrolikar both advanced to the semifinals of Congressional Debate after finishing first and third in their prelim chambers respectively placing them in the 54 of 152 competitors.
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