pINECREST

The 2018-2019 season began on September 29th as 55 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team traveled to Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines to compete in the  annual Pinecrest Open. Competing against 24 other schools from throughout the state of North Carolina CA finished the day as the top overall school winning first place sweepstakes. The following individual student placements contributed to the team's victory:
SPEECH:
Grace Wissink-1st Place, Program of Oral Interpretation
Sydney Tai-1st Place, Declamation
Bayla Sheshadri-1st Place, Original Oratory
Becca Segal-1st Place, Impromptu Speaking
Becca Segal-4th Place, Extemporaneous Speaking
Emily Zhen-6th Place, Declamation
DEBATE:
Aleksia Kleine-1st Place, Varsity Student Congress
Isaac Fan & Matthew Schaeffer-5th Place, Varsity Public Forum Debate
Shannon Jenkins-4th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Will Aarons-5th Place, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate
Andrew Lake-4th Place, Novice Student Congress Chamber A
Meirav Solomon-4th Place, Novice Student Congress Chamber B
Jane Sihm-5th Place, Novice Student Congress Chamber A
Kelsey Welch-6th Place, Novice Student Congress Chamber B
Alek Palakurthi & Aryan Nair-2nd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Adam Farris & David Howard-3rd Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Sanjna Jotwani & Miles Ramee-5th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Andrew Holland & Oliver Moore-7th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
JR Cobb & Annya Sachdeva-9th Place, Novice Public Forum Debate
Folu Ogundipe-2nd Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Emily Wang-3rd Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Allie Chandler-4th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Casey Powell-6th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Safiya Alvi-7th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Owen Kadis-8th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
Maddie Macchi-11th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
​Allen He-12th Place, Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate