Pinecrest 2014

43 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team traveled to Southern Pines on Saturday September 29th to compete in the Pinecrest Open hosted by Pinecrest High School. For the fourth year in a row the team emerged as the sweepstakes champions at this opening tournament of the North Carolina competitive season. Individual students placements were as followed:

Debate-
Laura Cabana- 4th Place, Varsity LD
Grace Jin-6th Place, Varsity LD
Varun Kasula-7th Place, Varsity LD
Keegan Kerns-8th Place, Varsity LD
Jusitn Tunley-1st Place, Novice LD
Chelsea Fang-2nd Place, Novice LD
Julia Gong-3rd Place, Novice LD
Hope Ferris-4th Place, Novice LD
Sullivan Morgus-5th Place, Novice LD
Thuc Dzu-7th Place, Novice LD
Keira Tai-8th Place, Novice LD
Jacob Henderson & Rachel George-5th Place, JV PF
Alex Knott & Riya Thomas, 5th Place, Novice PF

Speech & Congress-
Bharat Modi-3rd Place, Extemp; 5th Place, Impromptu
Diviya Vijayakumar-6th Place, Extemp
Ben Lipson-3rd Place, Novice Extemp
Nate Jones-3rd Place, Senate Chamber 1
Charlotte Waechter-2nd Place, Senate Chamber 2
Davis Braswell-4th Place, House Chamber 1
Matthew Mitten-1st Place, House Chamber 2
Dylan Lamphier-2nd Place, House Chamber 2

Thank you to the following for judging at the tournament: Ziaorong Tai, Firoz Jameel, David Yazdani, Sean Kerns, Shannon Nix, Sharon Maxfeild ,Shawn Nix, and Beth Brasswell.