On November 8 to 9, the Westwood Speech and Debate team attended 3 tournaments: Round Rock HS, Springwoods HS, and the Hockadebate Invitational. Overall, the debate team won 2nd place sweepstakes at Round Rock HS, along with other individual successes.
Seniors Terisha Kolencherry and Linda Yoo qualified for the Tournament of Champions in Public Forum at Hockaday School. The ToC is compromised of the nation’s top debaters whom qualify for the tournament after obtaining two bids at a national tournament. The Tournament of Champions will be held on April 25 to 27. On the state level, multiple students qualified for the Texas Forensics Association State tournament held on March 6 to 8.
Next week, the speech and debate team will compete at Connally HS.
Please congratulate the following students for their accomplishments at all three locations.
Spring Woods
In Policy Debate…
- Quarterfinalist: Alvin Chen & Sam Bhagwandin
- Octofinalist: Varun Reddy & Varun Jaladi, Jennifer Min & Jasmine Lin
- Quarterfinalist: Akhil Gandra
Hockaday School
In Public Forum…
- 2nd: Terisha Kolencherry & Linda Yoo
Round Rock HS
In Policy Debate…
- 2nd: Janhavi Nemwarkar & Catherine Cheng
- Semifinalist: Angela Park & Jacob Lundquist
- Quarterfinalist: Jaydeep Singh & Sasaank Bandi
-Speaker Awards:, Catherine Cheng (1st) , Jacob Lundquist (2nd)
In Lincoln Douglas…
- Quarterfinalist: Spoorthi Dasari
In Public Forum…
- 1st: Anika Agarwal & Archit Kumar
- 2nd: Victoria Fung & Natalie Alexander
- Semifinalist: Meenakshi Baddela & Mikaela Manion
In Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking…
- 2nd: David Dam
- 6th: Shomik Ghosh
- 8th: Vikas Reddy
In Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking…
- 1st: Nicholas Curtis
In Novice Policy Debate…
- Semifinalist: Katherine Alexander & Anjali Venkatesh
In Novice Lincoln Douglas…
- 2nd: Skye Yoo
- Semifinalist: Gargi Pingale
- Quarterfinalist: Elva Ye
