Our Speech and Debate team recently delivered an exceptional performance at the Carolina East District Tournament, a qualifying tournament for the 2024 National Speech and Debate Tournament. We are excited to announce that our Chargers placed phenomenally well, with fourteen students qualifying for Nationals and even more placing top-10 or higher in their events. Check below to see how our team faired:

Asha Gupta, ’24 – 3rd Dramatic Interp
Samantha Perez, ’24 – 9th Dramatic Interp
Akash Mani, ’26 – 5th Congress
Pranav Ravulapati, ’25 – 8th Congress
Isabel Chang, ’24 – 2nd HI
Hailey Zhang, ’25 – 2nd Info
Callie Chang, ’25 – 3rd Info
Kajal Parmar, ’26 – 3rd International Extemp + 1st US Extemp
Angelika Wang, ’24 – 6th US Extemp
Victor He, ’27 – 5th International Extemp
Allen Huang, ’25 – 1st LD
Rebecca Liu, ’25 – 2nd LD
Derek Han, ’25 – 3rd LD
Hamza Adnan, ’24 – 9th LD
Anna Berger, ’24 – 4th OO
Yul Choi, ’26 – 5th OO
Isabel Chang – 7th OO
Kainda Nzinga, ’25 – 3rd POI
Chelsea Cui, ’25 – 4th POI
Anika Kadumalli, ’25 – 5th POI
Angela Zhang, ’24 – 7th POI
Daphne DiFranceso, ’26, and Raya Jung, ’26 – 4th PF
Pranav Ravulapati and Patrick Liu, ’26 – 7th PF
Adam Levin, ’24, and Ayan Jung, ’24 – 8th PF
Chloe Lin, ’26, and Aviva Wang, ’26 – 10th PF
 
 
Nationals Qualifiers:
• Anna Berger
• Kajal Parmar
• Asha Gupta
• Chelsea Cui
• Hailey Zhang
• Isabel Chang
• Kainda Nzinga
• Victor He
• Yul Choi
• Akash Mani
• Pranav Ravulapati
• Derek Han
• Rebecca Liu
• Allen Huang