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Debate Wins Big at Anderson HS Tournament

Shreya Dasari, Editor in Chief| September 26, 2016

Domestic Extemporaneous (DX) Speaking

1st Place: Jackson Freeman

Semi Finalists:

Natasha Skergan

Avinav Saini

Sanju Dubey

Chinmay Pingale

Ananthi Jayasundera

Foreign Extemporaneous (DX) Speaking

3rd Place: Ryan Sze

5th Place: Ethan Brown

Semi Finalists:

Linette Page

Abby Grifno

Max Wolf

Novice Extemporaneous (NX) Speaking

3rd Place: Katya Lopez

5th Place: Anurima Mummaneni

6th Place: Bernice Chen

8th Place: Maxfield Segrest

Semi Finalists:

Eli Blinchevsky

Andrew Seale

Sophia Davis

Abri Rochte

Tomas Metzler

Varsity Public Forum (PF) Debate

1st Place: Krithika Shamanna & Neeha Bandlapalli

2nd Place: Elisa Baxter & Nathan Iyer

Semi Finalists: Ridha Mirza & Chinmay Pingale

Novice Public Forum (NPF) Debate

Quarter Finalists:

Bernice Chen & Vani Shah

Akhila Keeranoor & Grace Chen

Varsity Lincoln Douglas (LD) Debate

2nd Place: Dhruva Mambapoor

Quarter Finalists:

Nisha Rajasekar

Richard Lai

Novice Lincoln Douglas (NLD) Debate

1st Place: Anurima Mummaneni

Varsity Policy (CX) Debate

Quarter Finalists:

Shea Li Dombrowski & Emily Gao

Katherine Alexander & Anjali Venkatesh

Novice Policy (NCX) Debate

1st Place: Alice Zhang & Alex Lee

2nd Place: Vikas Burugu & Rishobh Dasgupta

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Shreya Dasari, Editor in Chief

Hello, I’m Shreya Dasari, and I’m the Editor in Chief for The Horizon. I’ve been on the Student Press staff since my freshman year. I like to sleep...

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