50 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team traveled to Fayetteville on Saturday March 9th to compete and judge in the Dogwood Speech and Debate League Novice Championship hosted by Cumberland International Early College on the campus of Reid Ross Classical School. For the first time ever CA was awarded overall sweepstakes for the novice championship tournament. Three CA students won titles at the tournament with Allie Chandler placing first in Lincoln Douglas Debate, Alex Lim Declamation, and JR Cobb Informative. This is the third straight year a CA student has won the championship in Lincoln Douglas Debate. The team also accomplished an impressive closeout of Lincoln Douglas Debate taking the top 7 spots and closing out the semifinal bracket completely. In addition CA closed out Declamation taking the top 3 spots, as well as taking four of the top five spots in Public Forum Debate including a closeout of one half of the semifinal bracket. The following individual students placements contributed to the teams victory:
Allie Chandler- 1st Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Brian Wei-2nd Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Simran Saini-3rd Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Oliver Wang-4th Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Marvin Koonce-5th Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Safiya Alvi-6th Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Emily Wang-7th Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Kelsey Welch & Allen He-2nd Place, Public Forum Debate Andrew Lake & Alek Palakurthi-3rd Place, Public Forum Debate Aryan Nair & Miles Ramee-4th Place, Public Forum Debate Sarah Zhao & Abby Li-5th Place, Public Forum Debate Alex Lim-1st Place, Declamation Sydney Tai-2nd Place, Declamation Katherine He-3rd Place, Declamation Miles Lubas-5th Place, Declamation Julia Young & Gabby Matejowsky- 2nd Place, Duo Interpretation Parker Courts-4th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Loren Troan-5th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking Gabby Matejowsky-2nd Place, Impromptu Speaking Julia Young-3rd Place, Impromptu Speaking Sonia Shah-6th Place, Impromptu Speaking JR Cobb-1st Place, Informative Speaking Sydney Tai-2nd Place, Oral Interpretation Kali Bate-3rd Place, Oral Interpretation Katie Grush-5th Place, Original Oratory Comments are closed.
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