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Colleyville Heritage tournament results January 13-14
CCX
Henry Tsai/Alec Swafford octofinals
Joseph Lee/Aaron Ru octofinals
Katy HS tournament results January 13-14
4th place overall sweepstakes
CCX NCX
Kyle Bean/Elaine Hsu semifinals Shanna Chu/Ying Zhang 1st place
Jenny Fan/Shubha Soman quarterfinals
Yue Guan.Danila Kabotyanski quarterfinals Shubha Soman 1st place CCX Speaker
Award
Xinxin Feng/Kim Zhou quarterfinals
Derek Le/Fei Yang octofinals DX
Xinxin Wang/Evelyn Yang octofinals Gustavo Herrera 5th place
CLD Student Congress
Jonathan Chang double octofinals Gustavo Herrera 3rd place
Ingle Li double octofinals
Kylene Wood double octofinals Public Forum
Yanran Lu/Amy Lin 1st place
NLD Jerry Chen/David Goldberg 2nd place
Michael Dotsey octofinals
Kaylor Wright octofinals Michael Dotsey 2nd place NLD Speaker
Award
Lyndon Baines Johnson HS tournament results January 13-14
CCX
Daniel Petkevich/Zachary Garber octofinals
CLD Xi Zhang 2nd place CLD Speaker Award
Anand Habib 2nd place Will Chambers 3rd place CLD Speaker
Award
Xi Zhang semifinals
Will Chambers quarterfinals
Yan Largman quarterfinals
Westfield HS tournament results January 6-7
CCX NCX
Aaron Ru/ Joseph Lee quarterfinals Shanna Chu/Ying Zhang \____closed out
Satish Vemuri/Chris Fan octofinals David Chan/Vijay Kasschau/
Yue Guan Danila Kabotyanski octofinals Hyungjoo Han/Janie Qin quarterfinals
Elaine Hsu/Jane Zhou octofinals Jenny Xiao/Shelly Xie octofinals
Xinxin Wang/Evelyn Yang octofinals Rafee Sadeque/Tom Xia octofinals
CLD Aaron Ru 1st place CCX Speaker Award
Kylene Wood double octofinals
Lamar Consolidated tournament results January 6-7
2nd Place Overall Sweepstakes
CLD CCX
Anand Habib 1st Place Renuka Rege/Saloni Singh 2nd place
Chris Williams semifinals Christine Lu/Linda Phung quarterfinals
Charles Chen octofinals
Thomas Lei octofinals DX
Umar Alam double octofinals Chris Williams 3rd place
Hari Mitra double octofinals Muthu Alagappan 6th place
Will Chambers double octofinals
Yan Largman double octofinals
HoBin Lim double octofinals
Chris Williams 2nd place CLD Speaker Award
University of Texas tournament results December 2-3
CCX
Alec Swafford/Henry Tsai double octofinals
Bay City tournament results December 2-3
Top Debate School
3rd place overall sweepstakes
CCX NCX
Seth Romo/Ye-Kyung Song 1st place Shanna Chu/Vivian Wong 1st place
Chian Lin/Cheney Tsai quarterfinals Yang Yang Chen/Vivian Wong 2nd place
Xinxin Wang/Evelyn Yang quarterfinals
CLD NLD
Yan Largman 1st place Dennis Qian semifinals
Gustavo Herrera semifinals Jeremy Yang quarterfinals
Karthik Prasad semifinals Faye Wang quarterfinals
Chris Williams quarterfinals Laura Tipton quarterfinals
Muthu Alagappan quarterfinals Henry Zhan quarterfinals
Daniel Gwen quarterfinals
Neal Bennett octofinals
Chloe Wood octofinals
Sailesh Prabhu octofinals
Charles Chen octofinals
Tina Li octofinals
Langham Creek tournament results November 18-19
CCX
David Li/ Liang Liu & Jacob Uzman/Zexing Meng closed out finals
Jane Zhou/Elaine Hsu quarterfinals
Shubha Soman/Jenny Fan quarterfinals
Scarborough tournament results November 18-19
CCX
Chris Fan/Satish Vemuri quarterfinals
CLD
Umar Alam octofinals
Jonathan Chang octofinals
Anand Habib octofinals
NLD
Pamela Nickell quarterfinals
Sylvia Sun octofinals
Ingle Li double octofinals
Hao Wang double octofinals
Klein HS Tournament Results November 11-12
CCX
Cheney Tsai/Aaron Ru semifinals
NCX
Shelly Xie/Jenny Xiao quarterfinals
Shelly Xie 3rd place NCX speaker award
NLD
Sylvia Sun 2nd place
Henry Zhan semifinals
Dennis Qian quarterfinals
Hendrickson HS Tournament Results November 11-12
CLD
Daniel Gwen semifinals
Karthik Prasad quarterfinals
Humble HS Tournament Results November 4-5
CCX
Yunlong Li/Bin Zhao quarterfinals
NCX
David Chan/Vijay Kasschau----------
Shanna Chu/Ying Zhang |________Closed out semifinals
Brendan Fradkin/Herbie Wei |
Lara Brenner/Fanny Briceno----------
CLD
Karishma Dara quarterfinals
NLD
Pamela Nickell semifinals
Laura Tipton semifinal
Bellaire Debate 4th Largest Squad in the Nation 2004-2005
Bellaire High School was recognized as being one of the nations "top 100 schools" in speech
and debate activities. Bellaire High School ranked 4th out of 2700 schools nationwide.
This recognition, based upon student participation and excellence in speech activities, was
awarded to Mr. Jay Stubbs & Mr. Russell Rach and published nationwide in the Rostrum, the
national magazine of high school speech and on www.nflonline.org , the website of the
National Forensic League.
The League, the oldest and largest high school speech organization in America was founded in
1925 to encourage and motivate high school students to participate in and become proficient
in the forensic arts: debate, public speaking, and interpretation.
Since its founding NFL has enrolled over 1,150,640 members in all fifty states, US
possessions and several foreign countries. Currently over 93,000 high school students and
over 2500 high school teachers are active members.
Prominent NFL Alumni: Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Richard Lugar and
William Frist, media visionary Ted Turner, Emmy Award winners Kelsey Grammer and Shelly
Long, television host Oprah Winfrey, news anchor Jane Pauley, CSPAN founder Brian Lamb,
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, University Presidents David Boren and John Sexton,
Commentator Rush Limbaugh, Federal National Mortgage CEO Franklin Delano Raines.
Needville/The Woodlands Tournament Results October 29-30
The Woodlands
CCX
Satish Vemuri/Chris Fan semifinals
CLD
Muthu Alagappan 2nd place
Chris Williams semifinals
Needville
CLD CLD speaker awards
Umar Alam quarterfinals Karthik Prasad 1st place
Sailesh Prabhu octofinals Umar Alam 3rd place
Karishma Dara octofinals
Steven Maheshwary octofinals
CCX
Xinxin Feng/Kim Zhou semifinals
Renuka Rege/Saloni Singh quarterfinals
NCX NCX speaker awards
Herbie Wei/Brendan Fradkin 1st place Derek Le 1st place
Derek Le/Ye-Kyung Song 2nd place Seth Romo 2nd place
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han semifinals Branden Fradkin 3rd place
NLD
Thomas Lei semifinals
Sylvia Sun quarterfinals
Debate Sweeps Champs at University of Houston
The Bellaire Debate squad saw its first action after an unprecedented three weeks of inactivity.
Hurricane Rita was responsible for cancelling two tournaments and there are no tournaments
scheduled on the weekend of the Texas Speech Communication Association state convention.
Despite the inactivity, Bellaire won first in debate sweepstakes and second in overall sweeps.
CLD
Karishma Dara semifinals
Gustavo Herrera quarterfinals
Chloe Wood octofinals
CCX
Rosa Deng & Julia Wang semifinals
Satish Vemuri & Chris Fan quarterfinals
Evelyn Yang & Xinxin Wang quarterfinals
Jenny Fan & Shubha Soman quarterfinals
US Extemp
Gustavo Herrera 3rd place
NLD
Raymond Lu 2nd place
Ingle Li semifinals
Douglas Jin quarterfinals
Michael Dotsey quarterfinals
NCX
Yang Yang Chen & Vivian Wong 2nd place
Janie Qin & Matthew Liu semifinals
Vijay Kasschau & David Chan semifinals
Nathan Leventon & Seth Romo quarterfinals
Shelly Xie & Rui Xiao quarterfinals
Jacob Uzman & Grace Sun quarterfinals
Branden Fradkin & Ye-Kyung Song quarterfinals
CCX
Henry Tsai/Alec Swafford octofinals
Joseph Lee/Aaron Ru octofinals
Katy HS tournament results January 13-14
4th place overall sweepstakes
CCX NCX
Kyle Bean/Elaine Hsu semifinals Shanna Chu/Ying Zhang 1st place
Jenny Fan/Shubha Soman quarterfinals
Yue Guan.Danila Kabotyanski quarterfinals Shubha Soman 1st place CCX Speaker
Award
Xinxin Feng/Kim Zhou quarterfinals
Derek Le/Fei Yang octofinals DX
Xinxin Wang/Evelyn Yang octofinals Gustavo Herrera 5th place
CLD Student Congress
Jonathan Chang double octofinals Gustavo Herrera 3rd place
Ingle Li double octofinals
Kylene Wood double octofinals Public Forum
Yanran Lu/Amy Lin 1st place
NLD Jerry Chen/David Goldberg 2nd place
Michael Dotsey octofinals
Kaylor Wright octofinals Michael Dotsey 2nd place NLD Speaker
Award
Lyndon Baines Johnson HS tournament results January 13-14
CCX
Daniel Petkevich/Zachary Garber octofinals
CLD Xi Zhang 2nd place CLD Speaker Award
Anand Habib 2nd place Will Chambers 3rd place CLD Speaker
Award
Xi Zhang semifinals
Will Chambers quarterfinals
Yan Largman quarterfinals
Westfield HS tournament results January 6-7
CCX NCX
Aaron Ru/ Joseph Lee quarterfinals Shanna Chu/Ying Zhang \____closed out
Satish Vemuri/Chris Fan octofinals David Chan/Vijay Kasschau/
Yue Guan Danila Kabotyanski octofinals Hyungjoo Han/Janie Qin quarterfinals
Elaine Hsu/Jane Zhou octofinals Jenny Xiao/Shelly Xie octofinals
Xinxin Wang/Evelyn Yang octofinals Rafee Sadeque/Tom Xia octofinals
CLD Aaron Ru 1st place CCX Speaker Award
Kylene Wood double octofinals
Lamar Consolidated tournament results January 6-7
2nd Place Overall Sweepstakes
CLD CCX
Anand Habib 1st Place Renuka Rege/Saloni Singh 2nd place
Chris Williams semifinals Christine Lu/Linda Phung quarterfinals
Charles Chen octofinals
Thomas Lei octofinals DX
Umar Alam double octofinals Chris Williams 3rd place
Hari Mitra double octofinals Muthu Alagappan 6th place
Will Chambers double octofinals
Yan Largman double octofinals
HoBin Lim double octofinals
Chris Williams 2nd place CLD Speaker Award
University of Texas tournament results December 2-3
CCX
Alec Swafford/Henry Tsai double octofinals
Bay City tournament results December 2-3
Top Debate School
3rd place overall sweepstakes
CCX NCX
Seth Romo/Ye-Kyung Song 1st place Shanna Chu/Vivian Wong 1st place
Chian Lin/Cheney Tsai quarterfinals Yang Yang Chen/Vivian Wong 2nd place
Xinxin Wang/Evelyn Yang quarterfinals
CLD NLD
Yan Largman 1st place Dennis Qian semifinals
Gustavo Herrera semifinals Jeremy Yang quarterfinals
Karthik Prasad semifinals Faye Wang quarterfinals
Chris Williams quarterfinals Laura Tipton quarterfinals
Muthu Alagappan quarterfinals Henry Zhan quarterfinals
Daniel Gwen quarterfinals
Neal Bennett octofinals
Chloe Wood octofinals
Sailesh Prabhu octofinals
Charles Chen octofinals
Tina Li octofinals
Langham Creek tournament results November 18-19
CCX
David Li/ Liang Liu & Jacob Uzman/Zexing Meng closed out finals
Jane Zhou/Elaine Hsu quarterfinals
Shubha Soman/Jenny Fan quarterfinals
Scarborough tournament results November 18-19
CCX
Chris Fan/Satish Vemuri quarterfinals
CLD
Umar Alam octofinals
Jonathan Chang octofinals
Anand Habib octofinals
NLD
Pamela Nickell quarterfinals
Sylvia Sun octofinals
Ingle Li double octofinals
Hao Wang double octofinals
Klein HS Tournament Results November 11-12
CCX
Cheney Tsai/Aaron Ru semifinals
NCX
Shelly Xie/Jenny Xiao quarterfinals
Shelly Xie 3rd place NCX speaker award
NLD
Sylvia Sun 2nd place
Henry Zhan semifinals
Dennis Qian quarterfinals
Hendrickson HS Tournament Results November 11-12
CLD
Daniel Gwen semifinals
Karthik Prasad quarterfinals
Humble HS Tournament Results November 4-5
CCX
Yunlong Li/Bin Zhao quarterfinals
NCX
David Chan/Vijay Kasschau----------
Shanna Chu/Ying Zhang |________Closed out semifinals
Brendan Fradkin/Herbie Wei |
Lara Brenner/Fanny Briceno----------
CLD
Karishma Dara quarterfinals
NLD
Pamela Nickell semifinals
Laura Tipton semifinal
Bellaire Debate 4th Largest Squad in the Nation 2004-2005
Bellaire High School was recognized as being one of the nations "top 100 schools" in speech
and debate activities. Bellaire High School ranked 4th out of 2700 schools nationwide.
This recognition, based upon student participation and excellence in speech activities, was
awarded to Mr. Jay Stubbs & Mr. Russell Rach and published nationwide in the Rostrum, the
national magazine of high school speech and on www.nflonline.org , the website of the
National Forensic League.
The League, the oldest and largest high school speech organization in America was founded in
1925 to encourage and motivate high school students to participate in and become proficient
in the forensic arts: debate, public speaking, and interpretation.
Since its founding NFL has enrolled over 1,150,640 members in all fifty states, US
possessions and several foreign countries. Currently over 93,000 high school students and
over 2500 high school teachers are active members.
Prominent NFL Alumni: Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Richard Lugar and
William Frist, media visionary Ted Turner, Emmy Award winners Kelsey Grammer and Shelly
Long, television host Oprah Winfrey, news anchor Jane Pauley, CSPAN founder Brian Lamb,
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, University Presidents David Boren and John Sexton,
Commentator Rush Limbaugh, Federal National Mortgage CEO Franklin Delano Raines.
Needville/The Woodlands Tournament Results October 29-30
The Woodlands
CCX
Satish Vemuri/Chris Fan semifinals
CLD
Muthu Alagappan 2nd place
Chris Williams semifinals
Needville
CLD CLD speaker awards
Umar Alam quarterfinals Karthik Prasad 1st place
Sailesh Prabhu octofinals Umar Alam 3rd place
Karishma Dara octofinals
Steven Maheshwary octofinals
CCX
Xinxin Feng/Kim Zhou semifinals
Renuka Rege/Saloni Singh quarterfinals
NCX NCX speaker awards
Herbie Wei/Brendan Fradkin 1st place Derek Le 1st place
Derek Le/Ye-Kyung Song 2nd place Seth Romo 2nd place
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han semifinals Branden Fradkin 3rd place
NLD
Thomas Lei semifinals
Sylvia Sun quarterfinals
Debate Sweeps Champs at University of Houston
The Bellaire Debate squad saw its first action after an unprecedented three weeks of inactivity.
Hurricane Rita was responsible for cancelling two tournaments and there are no tournaments
scheduled on the weekend of the Texas Speech Communication Association state convention.
Despite the inactivity, Bellaire won first in debate sweepstakes and second in overall sweeps.
CLD
Karishma Dara semifinals
Gustavo Herrera quarterfinals
Chloe Wood octofinals
CCX
Rosa Deng & Julia Wang semifinals
Satish Vemuri & Chris Fan quarterfinals
Evelyn Yang & Xinxin Wang quarterfinals
Jenny Fan & Shubha Soman quarterfinals
US Extemp
Gustavo Herrera 3rd place
NLD
Raymond Lu 2nd place
Ingle Li semifinals
Douglas Jin quarterfinals
Michael Dotsey quarterfinals
NCX
Yang Yang Chen & Vivian Wong 2nd place
Janie Qin & Matthew Liu semifinals
Vijay Kasschau & David Chan semifinals
Nathan Leventon & Seth Romo quarterfinals
Shelly Xie & Rui Xiao quarterfinals
Jacob Uzman & Grace Sun quarterfinals
Branden Fradkin & Ye-Kyung Song quarterfinals
50th Annual Bellaire Forensic Tournament runs smoothly
Thanks to the efforts of the students and parents of the Bellaire Debate squad and 300
community volunteers the 50th annual Bellaire Forensic Tournament was enjoyed by coaches
and students from 33 high schools.
Thanks to the efforts of the students and parents of the Bellaire Debate squad and 300
community volunteers the 50th annual Bellaire Forensic Tournament was enjoyed by coaches
and students from 33 high schools.
BELLAIRE WINS 2 CX TOURNAMENTS ON THE SAME WEEKEND
KINGWOOD HS
Bellaire Debate earned 1st place in debate sweepstakes at Kingwood HS. The contributions of
many made this award possible. Hari Mitra earned 3rd place CLD speaker and Yang Yang
Chen earned 3rd place NCX speaker.
CCX CLD NLD
Daniel Petkevich/Zach Garber 1st Place Hari Mitra semifinals Steven Maheshwary qtrs
Chian Lin/Cheney Tsai quarterfinals Xi Zhang semifinals Kaylor Wright octofinals
Chris Fan/Satish Vemuri quarterfinals Daniel Gwen octofinals
Gustavo Herrera octofinals
NCX
Bellaire novice CXers closed out semifinals. Congrats to Michelle Wang/Ying Zhang; Yang
Yang Chen/Vivian Wong; Hannah Goetz/Ana Vasquez-Trejo; Derek Le/Herbie Wei; David
Chan/Branden Fradkin.
ELKINS HS
CCX CLD NLD
Jason Leva/Ingrid Su 1st place Karthik Prasad quarters Thomas Lei quarterfinals
Charles Chen dbl octos Ingle Li octofinals
NCX Tina Li double octos
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han quarterfinals
GREENHILL SCHOOL
Bellaire Debate did very well at the Greenhill tournament with Alec Swafford & Henry Tsai
advancing to double octofinals. In preliminary rounds Swafford & Tsai defeated debaters from
Glenbrook South (Chicago) who won the 2005 NCFL Nationals as well as defeating
Westminster who won the 2005 Tournament of Champions.
KINGWOOD HS
Bellaire Debate earned 1st place in debate sweepstakes at Kingwood HS. The contributions of
many made this award possible. Hari Mitra earned 3rd place CLD speaker and Yang Yang
Chen earned 3rd place NCX speaker.
CCX CLD NLD
Daniel Petkevich/Zach Garber 1st Place Hari Mitra semifinals Steven Maheshwary qtrs
Chian Lin/Cheney Tsai quarterfinals Xi Zhang semifinals Kaylor Wright octofinals
Chris Fan/Satish Vemuri quarterfinals Daniel Gwen octofinals
Gustavo Herrera octofinals
NCX
Bellaire novice CXers closed out semifinals. Congrats to Michelle Wang/Ying Zhang; Yang
Yang Chen/Vivian Wong; Hannah Goetz/Ana Vasquez-Trejo; Derek Le/Herbie Wei; David
Chan/Branden Fradkin.
ELKINS HS
CCX CLD NLD
Jason Leva/Ingrid Su 1st place Karthik Prasad quarters Thomas Lei quarterfinals
Charles Chen dbl octos Ingle Li octofinals
NCX Tina Li double octos
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han quarterfinals
GREENHILL SCHOOL
Bellaire Debate did very well at the Greenhill tournament with Alec Swafford & Henry Tsai
advancing to double octofinals. In preliminary rounds Swafford & Tsai defeated debaters from
Glenbrook South (Chicago) who won the 2005 NCFL Nationals as well as defeating
Westminster who won the 2005 Tournament of Champions.
GRAPEVINE HS
67 schools from Arkansas,California, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas competed in the
Grapevine tournament September 9-10. Bellaire has two of the top 8 teams in CX debate out
of 73 entries.
CCX
Alec Swafford/Henry Tsai quarterfinals
Matt Abedi/Arnav Chakravarty quarterfinals
Alessia Bhargava/Daniel Zhang narrowly missed advancing on points
CLD out of 113 entries
Chris Williams advances and loses in double octofinals
Muthu Alagappan narrowly missed advancing on points
DEER PARK HS
39 schools attended the Deer Park tournament and Bellaire had a very good showing.
CCX
Joseph Lee/Aaron Ru 2nd place
Chris Fan/Satish Vemuri semifinals
Yue Guan/Jane Zhou quarterfinals
Christine Lu/Linda Phung quarterfinals
CLD
Daniel Gwen advances and loses double octofinals
Karthik Prasad advances and loses double octofinals
BELLAIRE NOVICE EXTRAVAGANZA
After eight rounds of grueling competition many Bellaire students were victorious
CX
8-0 Grace Sun/Jacob Uzman
6-2 Fulel Haque/Tom Xia
6-2 Anna Meyerson/Fanny Briceno
6-2 Natalia Podossinikova/Seth Romo
LD
6-2 Calvin Dotsey
6-2 Anna Fisher
6-2 Jing Jin
6-2 Raymond Lu
6-2 Steven Maheshwary
6-2 Kevin Shen
6-2 Kaylor Wright
67 schools from Arkansas,California, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas competed in the
Grapevine tournament September 9-10. Bellaire has two of the top 8 teams in CX debate out
of 73 entries.
CCX
Alec Swafford/Henry Tsai quarterfinals
Matt Abedi/Arnav Chakravarty quarterfinals
Alessia Bhargava/Daniel Zhang narrowly missed advancing on points
CLD out of 113 entries
Chris Williams advances and loses in double octofinals
Muthu Alagappan narrowly missed advancing on points
DEER PARK HS
39 schools attended the Deer Park tournament and Bellaire had a very good showing.
CCX
Joseph Lee/Aaron Ru 2nd place
Chris Fan/Satish Vemuri semifinals
Yue Guan/Jane Zhou quarterfinals
Christine Lu/Linda Phung quarterfinals
CLD
Daniel Gwen advances and loses double octofinals
Karthik Prasad advances and loses double octofinals
BELLAIRE NOVICE EXTRAVAGANZA
After eight rounds of grueling competition many Bellaire students were victorious
CX
8-0 Grace Sun/Jacob Uzman
6-2 Fulel Haque/Tom Xia
6-2 Anna Meyerson/Fanny Briceno
6-2 Natalia Podossinikova/Seth Romo
LD
6-2 Calvin Dotsey
6-2 Anna Fisher
6-2 Jing Jin
6-2 Raymond Lu
6-2 Steven Maheshwary
6-2 Kevin Shen
6-2 Kaylor Wright
EISENHOWER TOURNEY
Bellaire was dealt a rare and terrible blow for the CX teams at Eisenhower. After arriving with high hopes not a single
CX team broke. To make up for this defeat our valiant LDers and courageous Extempers stood up to the challenge:
CLD
Anand Habib semifinals 3rd place
Chris Williams quarterfinals 4th place
Umar Alam quarterfinals 4th place
NLD
Steven Maheshwary finals 2nd Place
US Extemp
Chris Williams finals 5th place
Gustavo Herrera semifinals
Foreign Extemp
Dmitry Shaporov semifinals
Special congratulations go to Yan Largman and Anand Habib who earned 1st and 3rd place speaker awards in CLD, and
Steven Maheshwary who earned 2nd place speaker award in NLD.
FOSTER
Occuring at the same weekend as Eisenhower, the results here were very cheerful. The CX teams closed out at finals
qualifying to teams to TFA state. Congrats to Henry Tsai/Alec Swafford and Alessia Bhargava/Daniel Zhang on a job
well done. I also would like to honor Aaron Ru/Joseph Lee and Liang Liu/David Li for their sacrifice to allow other
Bellaire teams to advance.Both LD and CX showed Bellaire proud:
CCX
Aaron Ru /Joseph Lee octofinals, concede to Bellaire in quarters
Matt Abedi/Arnav Chakravarty quarterfinals
Liang Liu/David Li octofinals, concede to Bellaire in quarters
Henry Tsai/Alec Swafford finals, undefeated co-champions
Angela Zhu/ Jenny Fan quarterfinals
Alessia Bhargava/ Daniel Zhang finals, undefeated co-champions
CLD
Kylene Wood double octofinals
NCX
Anna Meyerson / Fannie Briceno quarterfinals
Matthew Liu / Derek Le quarterfinals
Max Curry / Natnaell Mammo quarterfinals
Bellaire was dealt a rare and terrible blow for the CX teams at Eisenhower. After arriving with high hopes not a single
CX team broke. To make up for this defeat our valiant LDers and courageous Extempers stood up to the challenge:
CLD
Anand Habib semifinals 3rd place
Chris Williams quarterfinals 4th place
Umar Alam quarterfinals 4th place
NLD
Steven Maheshwary finals 2nd Place
US Extemp
Chris Williams finals 5th place
Gustavo Herrera semifinals
Foreign Extemp
Dmitry Shaporov semifinals
Special congratulations go to Yan Largman and Anand Habib who earned 1st and 3rd place speaker awards in CLD, and
Steven Maheshwary who earned 2nd place speaker award in NLD.
FOSTER
Occuring at the same weekend as Eisenhower, the results here were very cheerful. The CX teams closed out at finals
qualifying to teams to TFA state. Congrats to Henry Tsai/Alec Swafford and Alessia Bhargava/Daniel Zhang on a job
well done. I also would like to honor Aaron Ru/Joseph Lee and Liang Liu/David Li for their sacrifice to allow other
Bellaire teams to advance.Both LD and CX showed Bellaire proud:
CCX
Aaron Ru /Joseph Lee octofinals, concede to Bellaire in quarters
Matt Abedi/Arnav Chakravarty quarterfinals
Liang Liu/David Li octofinals, concede to Bellaire in quarters
Henry Tsai/Alec Swafford finals, undefeated co-champions
Angela Zhu/ Jenny Fan quarterfinals
Alessia Bhargava/ Daniel Zhang finals, undefeated co-champions
CLD
Kylene Wood double octofinals
NCX
Anna Meyerson / Fannie Briceno quarterfinals
Matthew Liu / Derek Le quarterfinals
Max Curry / Natnaell Mammo quarterfinals
BELLAIRE SUCCEEDS AT ALIEF ELSIK
So begins the year of success for the Bellaire teams. At the first tournament of the year at Alief Elsik, Aug 19-20, four
teams broke in CCX, one in CLD and one in NLD. The final standings were as follows:
CCX
Alec Swafford & Henry Tsai Semifinals 3rd place
Kyle Bean & Willow Wood Semifinals 3rd place
Zachary Garber & Daniel Petkevich quarterfinals 4th place
David Li & Liang Liu quarterfinals 4th place
CLD
Muthu Alagappan Semifinals 3rd place
NLD
Steven Mahashwary Semifinals 3rd place
Special congratulations go to Muthu Alagappan who earned 1st place speaker award in CLD, and Henry Tsai and Alec
Swafford who earned 2nd and 3rd speaker awards in CCX.
So begins the year of success for the Bellaire teams. At the first tournament of the year at Alief Elsik, Aug 19-20, four
teams broke in CCX, one in CLD and one in NLD. The final standings were as follows:
CCX
Alec Swafford & Henry Tsai Semifinals 3rd place
Kyle Bean & Willow Wood Semifinals 3rd place
Zachary Garber & Daniel Petkevich quarterfinals 4th place
David Li & Liang Liu quarterfinals 4th place
CLD
Muthu Alagappan Semifinals 3rd place
NLD
Steven Mahashwary Semifinals 3rd place
Special congratulations go to Muthu Alagappan who earned 1st place speaker award in CLD, and Henry Tsai and Alec
Swafford who earned 2nd and 3rd speaker awards in CCX.
BELLAIRE EXCELS AT NFL NATIONALS
Nine students represented Bellaire Debate at the 2005 NFL National Debate tournament in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The opening ceremonies were held at Lincoln Financial Field Stadium (home of the Philadelphia Eagles). Most of the
preliminary rounds were held in high schools in nearby Delaware.
Alessia Bhargava & Naeem Husain went 12-0 in preliminary rounds of CX debate and advanced to round 9; Jonathan
Earl & Alec Swafford went 10-2 in preliminary rounds of CX debate and advanced to round 8. Muthu Alagappan went
8-4 in preliminary rounds of Lincoln Douglas debate and lost a run off round on a split decision which would have
allowed him to advance. Chian Lin and Hari Mitra represented Bellaire Debate in Public Forum debate. Special
congratulations go to Alessia Bhargava who earned a trophy for 12th place speaker in CX debate.
Nine students represented Bellaire Debate at the 2005 NFL National Debate tournament in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The opening ceremonies were held at Lincoln Financial Field Stadium (home of the Philadelphia Eagles). Most of the
preliminary rounds were held in high schools in nearby Delaware.
Alessia Bhargava & Naeem Husain went 12-0 in preliminary rounds of CX debate and advanced to round 9; Jonathan
Earl & Alec Swafford went 10-2 in preliminary rounds of CX debate and advanced to round 8. Muthu Alagappan went
8-4 in preliminary rounds of Lincoln Douglas debate and lost a run off round on a split decision which would have
allowed him to advance. Chian Lin and Hari Mitra represented Bellaire Debate in Public Forum debate. Special
congratulations go to Alessia Bhargava who earned a trophy for 12th place speaker in CX debate.
SUCCESS AT NCFL NATIONALS
Bellaire debate sent three cross examination debate teams to the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National
Tournament in Milwaukee, Wisconsin May 28-29. All three teams were very successful.
Alessia Bhargava and Daniel Zhang went 5-0 during prelim rounds to earn the 4th seed. Alec Swafford and Henry Tsai
were 4-1 and also advanced to elimination rounds. Aaron Ru and Willow Wood were 3-2 and narrowly missed
advancing.
Swafford and Tsai lost their double octofinal round while Bhargava and Zhang won theirs. Alessia and Daniel were the
top seed remaining in the tournament entering octofinals. They faced Loyola Blakefield HS from Baltimore in octofinals
and lost. Congratulations to all three teams.
Bellaire debate sent three cross examination debate teams to the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National
Tournament in Milwaukee, Wisconsin May 28-29. All three teams were very successful.
Alessia Bhargava and Daniel Zhang went 5-0 during prelim rounds to earn the 4th seed. Alec Swafford and Henry Tsai
were 4-1 and also advanced to elimination rounds. Aaron Ru and Willow Wood were 3-2 and narrowly missed
advancing.
Swafford and Tsai lost their double octofinal round while Bhargava and Zhang won theirs. Alessia and Daniel were the
top seed remaining in the tournament entering octofinals. They faced Loyola Blakefield HS from Baltimore in octofinals
and lost. Congratulations to all three teams.
| 2005-2006 NFL OFFICERS ELECTED The following students were elected to office for 2005-2006: President Henry Tsai Vice President Alec Swafford Secretary Willow Wood Treasurer Hari Mitra Publicity Director Dmitry Shaporov Press Release Joseph Lee Social Coordinator Will Chambers Historian Jenny Fan CX Research Captains Matt Abedi & Alessia Bhargava CX Novice Captains Jason Leva &Aaron Ru LD Captains Chris Williams & Xi Zhang |