Mitty Speech and Debate has claimed first at the California State Championship five times: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 (note: the tournament was not held in 2020, due to Covid).
To date, the team has produced 16 National Finalists and 16 State Champions.
This past summer at Nationals, MSD placed top-20 in speech and top-40 in debate out of 2,000 schools. Recent graduate Sritha Bhupatiraju (AMHS ’23) placed 2nd in Humorous Interpretation and Senior Sashank Balusu (AMHS ’24) placed 6th in Congressional Debate.