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Congratulations to our speech and debate team for earning the highest sweepstakes award possible, "school of outstanding distinction." This award is given to the top 10 schools in the nation, out of almost 1000 competing, who accumulated the most combined speech and debate points at the National tournament.
Welcomed home by friends, teammates, and family.
Congratulations Pranav Govindaraju for placing top 30 in the nation!
Congratulations Anne and Will!
Cotton Candy Attire
Post round smiles
Ready for Team Dinner!
Cane Rosso
Family Portrait
Find a pizza buddy!
S'mores pizza
Cookie butter / Nutella pizza
Go Warriors!
2 years ago we had 1 National Qualifier, Riya Dange (Congress)
Last year we had 5 National Qualifiers, Riya Dange (Congress), Niki Griswold (Oratory), Manasi Patwa (National Extemp), Anne Hunt / Will Haubl (Duo)
Here are your 2015 Mitty National Qualifiers:
Varun Suresh (International Extemp)
Barbara Camara (Dramatic Interp)
Riya Dange (Congress)
Amulya Yerrapotu (World Debate)
Sanika Puranik (Dramatic Interp)
Nikita Dandia (Original Oratory)
Anne Hunt (Duo Interp)
Will Haubl (Duo Interp)
Maddie Ballard (Humorous Interp)
Ismail Shaik (Policy Debate)
Pranav Govindaraju (Congress)
Derek Eggleston (Policy Debate)
First stop - Velvet Taco, Dallas
360 schools entered State Quals and 160 schools qualified to state. The top 20 were announced for overall team sweepstakes. Congratulations to Archbishop Mitty for placing 5th!
Manasi - 15th in Impromptu
Piper - 14th in Dramatic Interp
Amulya - 11th in National Extemp
Seher - 11th in Expos
Maddie - 11th in Humorous Interp
Pranavi - 10th in Humorous Interp
Sam - 9th in Dramatic Interp
Varun - 8th in International Extemp
Riya / Derek - Octos in Parli
Riya - 7th in Original Advocacy
Barbara - 5th in Dramatic Interp
Mahak - 5th in Original Advocacy
Will/Anne - 4th in Duo interp
Nikita - 3rd in Original Oratory
Adam - 2nd in Congress
Sanika - 2nd in Thematic Interp
The students turned in their cell phones last night so they couldn't check the CAHSSA twitter page. Instead, we announced each event as a team, armed and ready with hugs. Congratulations to the following students for advancing:
Riya and Derek (Parli Round 5)
Adam (Congress Semi Finals)
The following 14 students advanced to Semi Finals in their individual event - top 18 out of the top 56 in the State:
HI - Pranavi and Maddie
DI - Piper, Sam, and Barbara
Duo - Anne and Will
TI - Sanika
NX - Amulya
IX - Varun
IMP - Manasi
Expos - Seher
OA - Mahak and Riya
OO - Nikita
Riya and Derek are still in, debating now!
Congratulations to Adam Giacomelli for advancing to semi finals in Congress! (Top 20 out of 90 competitors)
Personalized water bottles from the parents!
We just found out Jonathan and Pranav advanced in Policy Debate!
Day 1 - missing Jonathan and Pranav
