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Debaters Attend Hockaday and Cedar Ridge Tournaments

Bernice Chen, Opinions Editor| November 13, 2018

Debaters travel to Dallas to compete in the Hockaday tournament. Photo courtesy of WHS Speech and Debate.
Public Forum debaters at Cedar Ridge pose for a picture. Photo courtesy of WHS Speech and Debate.
Partners Seyoung Ree ’21 and Grace Chen ’20 debate at Cedar Ridge. Photo courtesy of WHS Speech and Debate.
Bernice Chen

Hockaday School
Varsity Public Forum (PF) Debate
Semi-Finalists: Pranav Kulkarni – Raymond Sun
Octo-Finalists: Chinmay Pingale – Nathan Iyer

Cedar Ridge High School
Novice Extemporaneous Speaking
2nd Place: Laila Yusuf
3rd Place: AJ Darwin
4th Place: Daniel Chen
5th Place: Sandali Srivastava
6th Place: Vishal Narra
Semi-Finalists:

Akhil Bhale
Eric Gao
Joshua King
Amogh Mahambare
Dhruv Pant
Seyoung Ree

Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking
2nd Place: Emily Gao
3rd Place: Anthony Kehl
6th Place: Clementine Larrouilh
Semi-Finalists:

Sraavya Danala
Sanju Dubey
Srivaishnavi Marreddy
Rushil Patange

Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking
1st Place: Sonny Stenson
4th Place: Tim Ma
Semi-Finalists:

Arnav Gunwani
Shawn Hatcher
Harsha Rajesh
Nikhil Reddy
Aman Tewari

Novice Lincoln Douglas (LD) Debate
1st Place: AJ Darwin
Semi-Finalists: Samia Bruster
Quarter-Finalists: Cara Tome

Varsity Lincoln Douglas (LD) Debate
Quarter-Finalists:

Carson Wang
Shawkin Kabir

1st Place Speaker Award: Harsha Jandhyala

Novice Public Forum (PF) Debate
1st Place: Joshua King – Amogh Mahambare
Semi-Finalists: Sraavya Danala – Sandali Srivastava

Varsity Public Forum (PF) Debate
1st Place: Bernice Chen – Harsha Rajesh
Semi-Finalists: Ridha Mirza – Sruthi Ramaswamy
Quarter-Finalists: Anand Singh – Justin Xiao
Octo-Finalists: Grace Chen – Seyoung Ree

Novice Policy (CX) Debate
1st Place: Bowen James – Olivia Chen
2nd Place: Rohan Reddy – Raghav Rangan
Semi-Finalists: Maimuna Masud – Erith Won

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Posing with his camera, Mr.Youn prepares to photograph the eclipse. A rare scientific occurrence, this was the first time Mr. Youn had attempted to photograph a total eclipse. Honestly, I wasnt even photographing it, I was just experiencing it,” Mr. Youn said. “You know, we built it up and the anticipation was incredibly high, but experiencing it was cooler than I anticipated.”

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