76 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team traveled to Fayetteville on Saturday February 9th to compete in the last Dogwood League tournament of the season. For the sixth time in six league tournaments this season CA was the overall sweepstakes champion. This is the first time CA has gone undefeated for an entire league season, and in the four years in which the Dogwood League has existed CA has won 21 of the 24 league tournaments. In addition for the fourth year in a row CA won the Carole Hamilton School of Excellence award for accumulating the most sweepstakes points throughout the entire season of league competition. In other year end honors RJ Jain was awarded the points race championship in Student Congress, and 14 Cary Academy Students qualified to compete in the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Milwaukee, Wisconsin over Memorial Day Weekend. Those students were:
Viraj Shah, Lincoln Douglas Debate Will Aarons, Lincoln Douglas Debate Isaac Fan & Matthew Schaeffer, Public Forum Debate RJ Jain, Student Congress Saajan Patel, Student Congress Aleksia Kleine, Student Congress Sydney Tai, Declamation Alex Lim, Declamation Sarah George, Declamation Emily Zhen, Declamation Becca Segal, Extemporaneous Speaking Cade Spector, Extemporaneous Speaking Sydney Tai, Oral Interpretation of Literature Caroline Spancake, Original Oratory The following students placements contributed to the teams victory at DSDL #6: Viraj Shah-1st Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Colin Zhu-5th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Will Aarons-6th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Eric Xing-7th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate Folu Ogundipe-2nd Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Natasha Sachar-3rd Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Emily Wang-4th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Safiya Alvi-5th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Allie Chandler-7th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Casey Powell-8th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate Isaac Fan & Matthew Schaeffer-2nd Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Georgia Moorhead & Han Zhang-6th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Adithi Sundaram & James Taylor-7th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate Ryan Chen & Matthew Crow- 1st Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Aryan Nair & Abby Li-2nd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Aanya Sachdeva & David Howard-3rd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Kelsey Welch & Allen He-4th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Alek Palakuruthi & Andrew Lake-5th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate Owen Kadis & Adam Farris-6th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate RJ Jain-1st Place, Student Congress Chamber A Ritvik Nalamouthu-5th Place, Student Congress Chamber A Alex Lim-1st Place & Top Novice, Declamation Sydney Tai-4th Place, Declamation Sarah George-5th Place, Declamation Gabby Matejowski-7th Place, Declamation Julia Young & Gabby Matejowsky- Top Novice, Duo Interpretation Cade Spector-2nd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Emily Zhen-3rd Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Parker Courts-6th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Sydney Tai-Top Novice, Oral Interpretation Comments are closed.
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