27 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team traveled to Durham Academy over the weekend of March 23rd and 24th to attempt to qualify to represent the Tarheel East District at the 2019 National Speech and Debate Tournament held in Dallas, Texas in June. After an intense two days of competition Cary Academy added 6 more national qualifiers to the three who already qualified at the District Congress tournament in February. Those students are:
Viraj Shah-3rd Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Eric Xing-9th Place, Lincoln Douglas Debate Han Zhang and Georgia Moorhead-4th Place, Public Forum Debate Isaac Fan and Matthew Schaeffer-6th Place, Public Forum Debate Cade Spector-1st Place, International Extemporaneous Speaking & 2nd Place, United States Extemporaneous Speaking Becca Segal-3rd Place, International Extemporaneous Speaking & 3rd Place, United States Extemporaneous Speaking Claudia Zimmerman-6th Place, International Extemporaneous Speaking & 6th Place, United States Extemporaneous Speaking Caroline Spancake- 5th Place, Original Oratory Elizabeth George-Semis, Original Oratory Bayla Sheshadri-Semis, Original Oratory Nica Kostenko-5th Place, Informative Speaking Ava Autry and Caroline Spancake-4th Place, Duo Interpretation Grace Wissink-1st Place, Program of Oral Interpretation Ava Autry-5th Place, Program of Oral Interpretation CA has now qualified for the National tournament for 19 consecutive years, the longest active streak in the Tarheel East District. CA also has a 19 year streak of having at least one Extemper qualify for Nationals, as well as seven year streak of qualifying in Lincoln Douglas Debate. Comments are closed.
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