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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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| 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. |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| BELLAIRE DEBATE 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 quarters 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 quarterfinals Thomas Lei quarterfinals Charles Chen double 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 finals 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 |