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| Bellaire Advances at UIL CX State Bellaire Debate sent two CX teams to the 96th annual University Interscholastic League (UIL) State Tournament held on the University of Texas campus March 17-18. David Li and Liang Liu represented Bellaire as well as Kyle Bean and Jason Leva. Both teams had records of 3 wins and 1 loss in the preliminary rounds. David and Liang narrowly missed advancing based on speaker points. Kyle Bean earned the gold gavel award as the top speaker in class 5A. Bean and Leva advanced to octofinals and lost to Hightower High School on a 2-1 decision. 3rd Place in CX Debate at TFA State Bellaire Debate competed successfully at the TFA State tournament March 2-4 at Pharr San Juan Alamo High School. 53 students made the 6 hour trip to State. As a squad Bellaire earned 33 TFA State qualifications which was good for 5th most in the state. Amongst those qualifications Bellaire set a new record with 18 CX teams qualified for State. Additionally Bellaire qualified 11 Lincoln Douglas debaters which was also the highest number of any school in the state. After five preliminary rounds Bellaire advanced two CX teams to elimination rounds. Alessia Bhargava and Daniel Zhang advanced but lost their double octofinals round on a split decision. Henry Tsai and Alec Swafford earned third place in CX debate. After going 5-0 in prelim rounds, Tsai & Swafford won their double octofinal and octofinal rounds. Their next opponent was Greenhill School. Henry & Alec's 3-0 victory over Greenhill was the talk of the tournament. They did not have long to savor the victory before losing semifinals on a split decision. Alessia Bhargava earned 6th overall speaker in CX debate. Others advancing to elimination rounds include Chris Williams to quarterfinals of Domestic Extemp, Muthu Alagappan to semifinals of Domestic Extemp and Yan Largman to triple octofinals of Lincoln Douglas debate. The 2005 TFA State Champion in the Student Congress Senate chamber advanced to the final round again in 2006 but fell short of repeating as State Champion. The future looks bright for Bellaire Debate. A number of students who participated in the 2006 TFA State tournament will be back next year and have the opportunity to add to their performance at this year's State tournament. CX Debaters advance to FINAL FOUR of NPPF For the second consecutive year Bellaire Debaters have advanced to the "Final Four" of the 2006 National Public Policy Forum (NPPF). Russell Rach coached Yue Guan, David Li, Elaine Hsu, Liang Liu, Daniel Petkevich, and Jason Leva who defeated Rufus King International Baccalaureate High School from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The other three schools joining Bellaire in the Final Four are Maize High School from Maize, Kansas; Plano Senior High from Plano, Texas; and Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. School for the Arts from West Palm Beach, Florida. The National Public Policy Forum is the only national contest that gives high school students across the nation the opportunity to participate in written and oral debates on issues of public policy. The school advanced to the elimination round after it submitted a qualifying round essay that was judged to be one of the best in the nation. Bellaire defeated Leland High School from California in quarterfinals en route to being the only school from the 2005 NPPF to return to the Final Four in 2006. The topic for the NPPF is "Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially limit its ability to detain individuals without charge." As one of the Final Four schools, Bellaire students will now receive an all expense paid trip to New York City to participate in the finals at New York University April 21-23, 2006. Finalists are honored during a special banquet and awards ceremony, and their schools will receive cash prizes up to $5,000. The NPPF was founded by the Bickel & Brewer Foundation in 2001 and is now jointly administered New York University. Further information on the competition can be found at http://www.bickelbrewer.com/index.php?id= debate . Bellaire completes successful regular season The regular season is now over and Bellaire Debate has qualified more debate entries to the Texas Forensic Association (TFA) State Tournament than any other school in Texas. Our entry for the 2006 TFA State tournament includes 18 CX debate teams, 11 LD entries, 3 US Extempers and 1 Student Congress. TFA State will be held at San Juan Pharr Alamo HS March 2-4, 2006. The following students qualified for TFA State: CCX CLD Matt Abedi/Arnav Chakravarty Muthu Alagappan Kyle Bean/Elaine Hsu Umar Alam Alessia Bhargava/Daniel Zhang Karishma Dara Chris Fan/Satish Vemuri Daniel Gwen Jenny Fan/ Shubha Soman Anand Habib Xinxin Feng/Kim Zhou Raghu Hariharan Andrew Garbarino/Nicholas Garbarino Gustavo Herrera Zachary Garber/Daniel Petkevich Yan Largman Yue Guan/Danila Kabotyanski Karthik Prasad Joseph Lee/Aaron Ru Chris Williams Jason Leva/Ingrid Su Xi Zhang David Li/ Liang Liu Chian Lin/Cheney Tsai USX Zexing Meng/Jacob Uzman Muthu Alagappan Renuka Rege/Saloni Singh Gustavo Herrera Seth Romo/Ye-Kyung Song Chris Williams Alec Swafford/Henry Tsai Xinxin Wang/Evelyn Zhang Student Congress Gustavo Herrera Lamar HS tournament results February 10-11 1st Place Overall Sweepstakes CCX CCX Speaker Awards Andrew Garbarino/Nick Garbarino 1st place Kyle Bean 1st place Kyle Bean/Elaine Hsu 2nd place Kristy Hong 2nd place Matt Abedi/Arnav Chakravarty semifinals Xinxin Wang 3rd place Kristy Hong/William Hong quarterfinals Andrew Garbarino 4th place Xinxin Feng/Kim Zhou quarterfinals Vijay Kasschau 5th place Daniel Hyman/Adam Kaiser octofinals Daniel Hyman 6th place Vijay Kasschau/David Chan octofinals Kim Zhou 7th place Nick Garbarino 8th place Arnav Chakravarty 9th place CLD CLD Speaker Awards Raghu Hariharan 2nd place Umar Alam 1st place Steven Maheshwary semifinals Raghu Hariharan 3rd place Jonathan Chang semifinals Umar Alam quarterfinals Thomas Lei quarterfinals Sailesh Prabhu octofinals Dulles HS tournament results February 10-11 CCX Alec Swafford/Henry Tsai quarterfinals Katy Taylor HS tournament results February 3-4 3rd place overall sweepstakes CCX NCX Yue Guan/Danila Kabotyanski 1st Place Fanny Briceno/Ying Zhang semifinals Chris Fan/ Satish Vemuri 2nd place Michelle Wang/Yi Zhang semifinals Xinxin Wang/Evelyn Yang quarterfinals Akia Pichon/Ana Vasquez-Trejo quarterfinals CLD NLD Will Chambers octofinals Hao Wang octofinals Jennifer Choi double octofinals Patrick Lu double octofinals Jeremy Yang double octofinals Yixin Xia double octofinals Kaili Zhang double octofinals Alief Taylor HS tournament results January 27-28 3rd place overall sweepstakes CCX NCX Jenny Fan/Shubha Soman 2nd place Shanna Chu/Ying Zhang 2nd place Chian Lin/Cheney Tsai semifinals Fulel Haque/Ana Vasquez-Trejo quarterfinals Zexing Meng/Jacob Uzman semifinals Vijay Kasschau/David Chan quarterfinals CLD NLD Anand Habib octofinals Hao Wang octofinals Jonathan Chang double octofinals DX Student Congress Gustavo Herrera 1st Place Gustavo Herrera 4th place Anand Habib 1st place CLD speaker award Kempner HS tournament results January 20-21 CCX NCX Renuka Rege/Saloni Singh quarterfinals Leena Warsi/Rachel Lewis 2nd place CLD NLD Neal Bennett octofinals Michael Dotsey quarterfinals Raghu Hariharan octofinals Ashley Tsai quarterfinals Umar Alam double octofinals Kaylor Wright quarterfinals Jonathan Chang double octofinals Andrew Huynh octofinals Michael Gottesman double octofinals Dennis Qian octofinals Kaili Zhang octofinals Public Forum Douglas Jin double octofinals Amy Lin/Yanran Lu semifinals Aldine HS tournament results January 20-21 CCX CLD Matthew Liu/Chloe Wood quarterfinals Matthew Hodge octofinals Andrew Garbarino/Nick Garbarino quarterfinals Chian Lin/Cheney Tsai quarterfinals Brendan Fradkin/Herbie Wei octofinals National Academic Recognition & Perfect Test Scores for Bellaire Debaters Eight members of the Bellaire Debate squad earned National Merit Scholar semifinalist recognition this year. Kyle Bean, Alessia Bhargava, Yue Guan, Gary Hu, Joseph Lee, Henry Tsai, Chris Williams and Kylene Wood received the honor. Additionally, Kyle Bean and Kylene Wood scored perfect scores on their PSAT, the test that determines National Merit Scholar semifinalists. Kylene also had a perfect score on her ACT. Click here to read the Houston Chronicle story about Kylene's ACT score. 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. For further details and photos go to Bellaire Forensic Tournament. Photos from alumni reunion can be found at Bellaire Debate Alumni. 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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