Debaters Compete at TFA State
Juniors Daniel Tehrani and Daniel Velani pose for a photo while waiting for results.
Linette Page ’19 pauses during round to eat lunch.
After months of preparation, competitions, and frantic research, speech and debate students finally competed at the Texas Forensic Association (TFA) State Tournament. Held at Alief Taylor High School in Houston, the tournament lasted from Thursday, March 14 to Saturday, March 16 with 50 Westwood qualifiers attending.
“For a lot of people it is the most important tournament of the year, and it’s one of the tournaments where a large portion of the entire team can get together and really show off how much they’ve improved throughout the year, plus the food quality is pretty great,” Linette Page ‘19 said.
The tournament concluded Saturday night with the awards ceremony held in the Alief auditorium. Below is a list of all the State placements.
Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking
Semi-Finalists: Anurima Mummaneni
Quarter-Finalists:
Sonny Stenson
Emily Gao
Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking
Quarter-Finalists: Jeff Freeman
Impromptu Speaking
Fifth Place: Maximilien Wolf
Quarter-Finalists: Clementine Larrouilh
Varsity Public Forum (PF) Debate
Double Octo-Finalists: Jeff Freeman – Arnav Gunwani
Triple Octo-Finalists: Nathan Iyer – Chinmay Pingale
Varsity Lincoln Douglas (LD) Debate
Octo-Finalists: Truman Le
Triple Octo-Finalists:
Mihir Shah
Alice Zhang
Saavan Myneni
Varsity Policy (CX) Debate
Semi-Finalists: Vikas Burugu – Daniel Shi
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