The Westwood Speech and Debate Team sent 99 students to compete at Hendrickson High School on Saturday, Sept. 2. Many students performed exceptionally well in their competitions, winning the awards listed below.

3rd Place Overall Team Sweepstakes Award

Novice Extemporaneous Speaking
2nd Place: Jeff Freeman
5th Place: Anand Singh
8th Place: Anuja Uppuluri
Semi-finalists:
Saatvik Billa
Sophia Cobert
Sanat Dubey
Neal Gandhi
Hannah Liu
Sruti Mohankumar
Ijay Narang
Pratik Neerukonda
Dhruv Nistala
Rushil Patange
Larry Skergan
Andrew Yao

Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking
3rd Place: Anurima Mummaneni
8th Place: Katya Lopez
Semi-finalist:
Clementine Larrouilh

Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking
2nd Place: Max Wolf
5th Place: Linette Page
Semi-finalists:
Emily Gao
Divya Chhotani

Varsity Lincoln Douglas (LD) Debate
1st Place: Rohith Mandavilli
2nd Place: Saavan Myneni
Quarter-finalists:
Abby Grifno
Jugal Amodwala
Octo-finalists:
Alice Zhang
Truman Le
Dhruva Mambapoor

Novice Public Forum (PF) Debate
2nd Place: Arnav Gunwani & Anand Singh
3rd Place: Ijay Narang & Rushil Patange

Varsity Public Forum (PF) Debate
Quarter-finalists:
Bernice Chen & Grace Chen
Harsha Rajesh & Pranav Kulkarni
Mahir Kota & Nathan Iyer

Varsity Policy (CX) Debate
3rd Place: Anthony Nguyen & Ritik Goyal
4th Place: Vikas Burugu & Rishob Dasgupta
Quarter-finalists:
Rehana Shaik & Sindhuja Uppuluri
Andy Lin & Vani Shah