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Westwood Debate Succeeds In Tournaments

lindayoowestwood
October 23, 2013

The Westwood Debate team attended the Bellaire HS tournament, the Lake Travis HS tournament, and the St. Mark’s School of Texas Invitational, all in the same weekend. At two of the three tournaments, the Westwood Debate Team had individuals who acquired bids to the Tournament of Champions; debaters have the opportunity to compete at this tournament after obtaining a certain amount of bids (usually 2) in their event.

Please congratulate the following students for their success at the local, state, and national level.

St. Mark’s School of Texas Invitational 

In Policy Debate… 

  • Double Octofinalist: Sam Bhagwandin & Alvin Chen, Varun Reddy & Varun Jaladi

In Lincoln Douglas Debate…

  • 1st: Akhil Gandra (Acquired 2nd ToC bid: Quallifed for the Tournament of Champions)
  • Octofinalist: Sunay Nanavati (Acquired 1st ToC bid)

Bellaire HS

  • Quarters: Terisha Kolencherry & Linda Yoo (Acquired 1st ToC bid)
  • Double Octofinalist: Emily Xiao and Bryan Yao

Lake Travis HS

In Policy Debate… 

  • 2nd: Rohit Mucherla & Suraj Reddy
  • Semi Finalist: Catherine Cheng & Janhavi Nemwarkar
  • Quarter Finalists: Jacob Lundquist & Angela Park, Keaton McDonald & Bingzhe Wei, Michelle Lin & Murtaza Hakimi

In Public Forum Debate…

  • 1st: Rasik Jankay & Amani Mehta
  • Semi Finalist: Meenakshi Baddela & Mikaela Manion
  • Quarter Finalist: Navya Kumar & Evonne Ng, Ellie Burshtyn & Ben Zentner, Divya Choudhury & Anjali Venkatesh
  • Speaker Awards: Meenaskshi Baddela (1st), Archit Kumar (2nd)

In Lincoln Douglas Debate…

  • 1st: Garima Singh
  • Quarter Finalist: Spoorthi Dasari

In Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking…

  • 1st: Nicholas Curtis
  • 7th: Priya Ramamoorthy

 
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