Our speech and debate team recently finished as the Overall Sweepstakes Champions and the top speech and debate team at the State tournament for the second time! CA is proud to boast state champions in six different events: 

Alex Liu, ’26, Patrick Liu, ’26, Rehan Mahmood, ’26, and Anjali Narahari, ’26 – JV Lincoln Douglas Debate

Daphne DiFrancesco, ’26 and Raya Jung, ’26 – JV Public Forum Debate

Holden Lim, ’27 – Declamation

Kajal Parmar, ’26 – Extemporaneous Speaking

Hailey Zhang, ‘25 – Informative Speaking

Kainda Nzinga, ’25 – Program of Oral Interpretation

CA was also the Speech Sweepstakes winner for the third year. A huge thank you to Mr. Pellicciotta, the Director of Speech and Debate, and Mr. Horowitz and Mr. Warren for helping put CA speech and debate over the top. Congratulations to the entire speech and debate team. Go Chargers!