25 members of the Cary Academy Speech and Debate team, the most ever, traveled to New Haven, Connecticut over the weekend of September 13th thru 15th to complete in the season opening tournament hosted by Yale University. A record eight CA competitors reached the elimination rounds in their respective events across both the debate and speech categories. Bayla Sheshadri broke in Original Oratory where she advanced out of both her octafinal and quarterfinal rounds to reach the semifinals placing 14th out of 124 competitors. Alex Lim broke in Humorous Interpretation and advanced of his quarterfinal round to reach the semifinals placing 9th out of 60 competitors. In Congressional Debate Ritvik Nalamothu placed 4th in his preliminary chamber to advance to the semifinals placing him in the top 60 of 210 competitors. In Parliamentary Debate the team of Will Aarons and Colin Zhu were a perfect 5-0 in prelims and broke to the octafinal round placing 9th out of 81 teams. Will was the 4th place speaker and Colin the 9th place speaker as well. And finally in Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate CA had three competitors reach the elimination rounds, tied for the most of any school. Natasha Sachar was eliminated in the Double octafinal round after being paired against Allie Chandler. Allie advanced to the quarterfinal round before losing, and Casey Powell reached the semifinal round where he lost on a spilt 2-1 decision to the eventual tournament champion. CA was the only school to have more than one debater advance to the quarterfinals of JV LD. In addition Allie Chandler was the 7th place speaker.
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