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Pasadena Memorial HS tournament results November 3-4
Champ CX Champ LD
Renuka Rege/Saloni Singh semifinals Muthu Alagappan 2nd place
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han quarterfinals Sylvia Sun quarterfinals
Kaylor Wright octofinals
Novice CX Zachary Herrera octofinals
Tom Zhang/Joseph Ong 2nd place
Qi Fu/Millie Chen semifinals Novice LD
Yousup Lee/Billy Hu quarterfinals Shireen Smalley 1st place
Celina Aldape/Ngozi Lawanson quarterfinals Rohini Sigireddi 1st place
James Harrison 1st place
US Extemp Josh Rozner 1st place
Muthu Alagappan 1st place Jun Chen octofinals
Tanya Chen octofinals
Novice Extemp Dennis Wu octofinals
Yuanzhou Wang 4th place Laurence Nguyen octofinals
Student Congress CLD Speaker Awards
Grace Sun 4th place Muthu Alagappan 2nd place
Sylvia Sun 3rd place
NCX Speaker Awards
Tom Zhang 1st place NLD Speaker Awards
Joseph Ong 2nd place Jun Chen 1st place
Celina Aldape 3rd place
51st Annual Bellaire Forensic Tournament
We would like to thank the 40 schools that participated in the 51st annual Bellaire Forensic
Tournament October 27-28 as well as the hundreds of alumni, professionals and community
members that volunteered to judge. Thanks to the generosity of our judges and parents our
tournament was a success. Hightower High School won the Harlan G. Andrews Overall
Sweepstakes award as well as the David Johnson Debate Sweepstakes award. Hightower won
overall sweepstakes at the 50th annual BFT.
Stratford HS tournament results October 27-28
Champ CX Champ LD
Matthew Liu/Jacob Uzman 1st place Sesenu Woldemariam 2nd place
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han quarterfinals Matt Hodge semifinals
The Woodlands HS tournament results October 20-21
1st Place Debate Sweepstakes
2nd Place Overall Sweepstakes
Champ CX Champ LD Student Congress
Zachary Garber/Daniel Petkevich 2nd Place HoBin Lim semifinals Grace Sun 3rd place
Matthew Liu/Jacob Uzman semifinals Jennifer Choi octofinals
Zexing Meng/Yi Zhang semifinals Steven Maheshwary octos Domestic Extemp
Nick Garbarino/Andrew Garbarino quarters Karthik Prasad octofinals Jacob Uzman 4th
Xinxin Wang/Brendan Fradkin quarterfinals Sylvia Sun octofinals
Prose
Novice CX Novice LD Rachel Freeman 3rd
Jacob Aronowitz/Jimmy Moon 1st place Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place
Scott Lin/Thomas Zhang 1st place Rohini Sigireddi 1st place
Ruobing He/Qi Fu quarterfinals Shireen Smalley octofinals
Judy Sun/Ruyi Yao quarterfinals James Harrison octofinals
NCX Speaker Awards NLD Speaker Awards
Qi Fu 2nd place Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place
Scott Lin 3rd place Rohini Sigireddi 2nd place
University of Houston tournament results October 13-14
1st Place Debate Sweepstakes
Champ CX Champ LD
Arnav Chakravarty/Aaron Ru 1st Place Daniel Gwen octofinals
David Chan/Vijay Kasschau 2nd Place
Yi Zhang/Yiung Zhang quarterfinals Novice LD
Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place
Novice CX Louise Lu octofinals
Mengwei Ni/Sharon Sun semifinals Tony Deng octofinals
David Wang/Henry Lu quarterfinals Rohini Sigireddi octofinals
Celina Aldape/Ngozi Lawanson quarterfinals
Ruobing He/Luyang Zheng quarterfinals Novice LD Speaker Awards
Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place
Novice CX Speaker Awards
Luyang Zheng 1st place Domestic Extemp
Mengwei Ni 2nd place Gustavo Herrera
Sharon Sun 3rd place
Ross Sterling HS tournament results September 29-30
1st Place Debate Sweepstakes
Champ CX Champ LD
Kate Bleakley/Anna Fisher semifinals Thomas Lei 2nd place
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han quarterfinals Karthik Prasad quarterfinals
Zexing Meng/Yi Zhang quarterfinals
Scott Lin/Michael Feng quarterfinals Novice LD
Novice CX Zachary Herrera 1st place
Tong Li/Rui Yao 2nd place Aryam Andom semifinals
Millie Chen/Qi Fu semifinals Tony Deng octofinals
Alex Hu/Yuanzhou Wang quarterfinals Jenny Kim octofinals
Tom Zhang/Yousup Lee quarterfinals Romy Megahed octofinals
Shireen Smalley octofinals
Domestic Extemp Public Forum Debate
Gustavo Herrera 3rd place Justin Sun/Sylvia Sun quarterfinals
Memorial HS tournament results September 29-30
Champ LD
Muthu Alagappan quarterfinals
Bellaire Novice Extravaganza results September 22-23
LD CX
Janie Qin 8-0 Georgia McLendon/Michael Feng 8-0
Sesenu Woldemariam 7-1 Terrence Liu/Andrew Yang 7-1
Josh Rozner 7-1 Henry Lu/David Wang 7-1
Zachary Herrera 6-2 Scott Lin/Isabella Chen 7-1
Erik Nelson 6-2 Wilma Qiu/Chelsea Zhang 7-1
Jun Chen 6-2 Tong Li/Kate Bleakley 6-2
Ruiji Jiang 6-2 Shelby Gasson/Michelle Atkins 6-2
Dennis Wu 6-2 Judy Sun/Jimmy Moon 6-2
James Harrison 6-2
Elkins HS tournament results September 15-16
Xinxin Wang/Branden Fradkin quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Renuka Rege/Saloni Singh quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Karthik Prasad octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Sailesh Prabhu octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Scott Lin/Isabella Chen 2nd place novice CX debate
Michelle Fernandez/Thomas Zhang 3rd place novice CX debate
Michelle Atkins/Kate Bleakley quarterfinals novice CX debate
Michael Feng/Georgia McLendon quarterfinals novice CX debate
Deer Park HS tournament results September 8-9
Anand Habib quarterfinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Pamela Nickell octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Umar Alam octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Austin Grogin octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Xinxin Feng/Kim Zhou quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Celina Aldape/Ngozi Lawanson semifinals novice CX debate
Wilma Qiu/Chelsea Zhang semifinals novice CX debate
Henry Lu/David Wang semifinals novice CX debate
Anna Fisher/Angela Zhu semifinals novice CX debate
Vijay Kasschau 1st place speaker CX debate
Xinxin Wang 2nd place speaker CX debate
Michelle Atkins 1st place speaker novice CX debate
Michael Feng 2nd place speaker novice CX debate
Katy Taylor HS tournament results September 8-9
David Chan/Vijay Kasschau quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Zach Garber/Daniel Petkevich quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Charles Chen double octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Kevin Shen double octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Michael Feng/Georgia McLendon 1st place novice CX debate
Mengwei Ni/Sharon Sun 2nd place novice CX debate
Terrence Liu/Andrew Yang 3rd place novice CX debate
Foster HS tournament results August 25-26
Arnav Chakravarty/Aaron Ru 2nd place Cross Examination Debate
Chris Fan/Satish Vemuri semifinals Cross Examination Debate
Danila Kabotyanski/Daniel Petkevich quarterfinals Cross Examination Debate
Xinxin Wang/Brendan Fradkin quarterfinals Cross Examination Debate
Charles Chen octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Daniel Gwen octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Thomas Lei double octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Karthik Prasad double octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Daniel Gwen 2nd place speaker Lincoln Douglas Debate
Congratulations to Bellaire Winners at Alief Elsik's
Tournament!
Chris Fan and Satish Vemuri - 2nd Place in Championship Cross-Examination Debate
Alicia Lau and Shirley Li - 2nd Place in Novice Cross-Examination
Muthu Alagappan - 3rd Place in Championship Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Muthu Alagappan 1st place Speaker Award in Champ Lincoln Douglas Debate
Alicia Lau - First Place Speaker Award in Novice Cross-Examination Debate
Shirley Li - Second Place Speaker Award in Novice Cross-Examination Debate
Bellaire Debaters Win at NFL Nationals
Bellaire High School participated in the 76th annual Lincoln Financial Group National Forensic League
National Speech and Debate tournament June 19-23, 2006 in Dallas. Bellaire qualified 11 students to
the national tournament and in so doing won the South Texas NFL District Sweepstakes plaque for
the 36th time in 43 years.
Seniors Alec Swafford and Henry Tsai won 6th place in policy debate. Alec & Henry were 12-0 in
the preliminary rounds (one of only 5 teams in the field of over 200 to do so). Senior Matt Abedi and
junior Arnav Chakravarty earned 15th place in policy debate. These two teams under the coaching of
Russell Rach were responsible for Bellaire High School earning an Excellence in Debate award at the
National Tournament. Bellaire was one of only five schools in the nation to earn this award at the
tournament (the others include Springfield Central HS, MO; Nova High School, FL; Springfield
Parkview HS, MO; and Southwest Lincoln HS, NE.) This is also the first time since 1993 that two
Bellaire policy debate teams have finished in the top 15. In 1993 Danny David & Benjamin Greenberg
earned 8th place and Leslie Meltzer & Guy Goldberg earned 10th place at the Nationals held in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Senior Chris Williams advanced to round 8 of United States Extemporaneous Speaking. Other Bellaire
debaters participating at nationals included sophomore Zach Garber in International Extemp, juniors
Aaron Ru & Danila Kabotyanski in Public Forum Debate, seniors Kyle Bean & Jason Leva in policy
debate, and freshman Grace Sun in Student Congress.
Jay Stubbs was awarded the 2006 James M. Copeland Award as NFL Coach of the Year. Previous
winners of this award from Bellaire High School include Mollie Martin and Cecil Pickett (1958 &
1959), June Smith (1968), June Smith and Bill Henderson (1970), and David Johnson (1984 & 2002).
The season began with our celebration of the 50th annual Bellaire Forensic Tournament. After setting
TFA records in the number of CX state qualifiers (18) and LD state qualifiers (11), a 3rd place finish
in the Bickell Brewer competition (for the second consecutive year), advancing teams at TFA State,
UIL State, NCFL Nationals and NFL Nationals, and finishing the year with the largest squad in NFL
history with 854 degrees we believe the 50th season of debate competition at Bellaire High School has
been a success.
2006-2007 NFL OFFICERS ELECTED
The following students were elected to office for 2006-2007:
President Arnav Chakravarty
Vice President Muthu Alagappan
Secretary Christine Lu
Treasurer Karthik Prasad
Publicity Director
Press Release
Social Coordinator Anna Meyerson
Historian Gustavo Herrera
CX Research Captains Zach Garber
Daniel Petkevich
Satish Vemuri
CX Novice Captains Shanna Chu
Chris Fan
Jenny Fan
LD Captains Muthu Alagappan
Umar Alam
Champ CX Champ LD
Renuka Rege/Saloni Singh semifinals Muthu Alagappan 2nd place
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han quarterfinals Sylvia Sun quarterfinals
Kaylor Wright octofinals
Novice CX Zachary Herrera octofinals
Tom Zhang/Joseph Ong 2nd place
Qi Fu/Millie Chen semifinals Novice LD
Yousup Lee/Billy Hu quarterfinals Shireen Smalley 1st place
Celina Aldape/Ngozi Lawanson quarterfinals Rohini Sigireddi 1st place
James Harrison 1st place
US Extemp Josh Rozner 1st place
Muthu Alagappan 1st place Jun Chen octofinals
Tanya Chen octofinals
Novice Extemp Dennis Wu octofinals
Yuanzhou Wang 4th place Laurence Nguyen octofinals
Student Congress CLD Speaker Awards
Grace Sun 4th place Muthu Alagappan 2nd place
Sylvia Sun 3rd place
NCX Speaker Awards
Tom Zhang 1st place NLD Speaker Awards
Joseph Ong 2nd place Jun Chen 1st place
Celina Aldape 3rd place
51st Annual Bellaire Forensic Tournament
We would like to thank the 40 schools that participated in the 51st annual Bellaire Forensic
Tournament October 27-28 as well as the hundreds of alumni, professionals and community
members that volunteered to judge. Thanks to the generosity of our judges and parents our
tournament was a success. Hightower High School won the Harlan G. Andrews Overall
Sweepstakes award as well as the David Johnson Debate Sweepstakes award. Hightower won
overall sweepstakes at the 50th annual BFT.
Stratford HS tournament results October 27-28
Champ CX Champ LD
Matthew Liu/Jacob Uzman 1st place Sesenu Woldemariam 2nd place
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han quarterfinals Matt Hodge semifinals
The Woodlands HS tournament results October 20-21
1st Place Debate Sweepstakes
2nd Place Overall Sweepstakes
Champ CX Champ LD Student Congress
Zachary Garber/Daniel Petkevich 2nd Place HoBin Lim semifinals Grace Sun 3rd place
Matthew Liu/Jacob Uzman semifinals Jennifer Choi octofinals
Zexing Meng/Yi Zhang semifinals Steven Maheshwary octos Domestic Extemp
Nick Garbarino/Andrew Garbarino quarters Karthik Prasad octofinals Jacob Uzman 4th
Xinxin Wang/Brendan Fradkin quarterfinals Sylvia Sun octofinals
Prose
Novice CX Novice LD Rachel Freeman 3rd
Jacob Aronowitz/Jimmy Moon 1st place Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place
Scott Lin/Thomas Zhang 1st place Rohini Sigireddi 1st place
Ruobing He/Qi Fu quarterfinals Shireen Smalley octofinals
Judy Sun/Ruyi Yao quarterfinals James Harrison octofinals
NCX Speaker Awards NLD Speaker Awards
Qi Fu 2nd place Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place
Scott Lin 3rd place Rohini Sigireddi 2nd place
University of Houston tournament results October 13-14
1st Place Debate Sweepstakes
Champ CX Champ LD
Arnav Chakravarty/Aaron Ru 1st Place Daniel Gwen octofinals
David Chan/Vijay Kasschau 2nd Place
Yi Zhang/Yiung Zhang quarterfinals Novice LD
Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place
Novice CX Louise Lu octofinals
Mengwei Ni/Sharon Sun semifinals Tony Deng octofinals
David Wang/Henry Lu quarterfinals Rohini Sigireddi octofinals
Celina Aldape/Ngozi Lawanson quarterfinals
Ruobing He/Luyang Zheng quarterfinals Novice LD Speaker Awards
Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place
Novice CX Speaker Awards
Luyang Zheng 1st place Domestic Extemp
Mengwei Ni 2nd place Gustavo Herrera
Sharon Sun 3rd place
Ross Sterling HS tournament results September 29-30
1st Place Debate Sweepstakes
Champ CX Champ LD
Kate Bleakley/Anna Fisher semifinals Thomas Lei 2nd place
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han quarterfinals Karthik Prasad quarterfinals
Zexing Meng/Yi Zhang quarterfinals
Scott Lin/Michael Feng quarterfinals Novice LD
Novice CX Zachary Herrera 1st place
Tong Li/Rui Yao 2nd place Aryam Andom semifinals
Millie Chen/Qi Fu semifinals Tony Deng octofinals
Alex Hu/Yuanzhou Wang quarterfinals Jenny Kim octofinals
Tom Zhang/Yousup Lee quarterfinals Romy Megahed octofinals
Shireen Smalley octofinals
Domestic Extemp Public Forum Debate
Gustavo Herrera 3rd place Justin Sun/Sylvia Sun quarterfinals
Memorial HS tournament results September 29-30
Champ LD
Muthu Alagappan quarterfinals
Bellaire Novice Extravaganza results September 22-23
LD CX
Janie Qin 8-0 Georgia McLendon/Michael Feng 8-0
Sesenu Woldemariam 7-1 Terrence Liu/Andrew Yang 7-1
Josh Rozner 7-1 Henry Lu/David Wang 7-1
Zachary Herrera 6-2 Scott Lin/Isabella Chen 7-1
Erik Nelson 6-2 Wilma Qiu/Chelsea Zhang 7-1
Jun Chen 6-2 Tong Li/Kate Bleakley 6-2
Ruiji Jiang 6-2 Shelby Gasson/Michelle Atkins 6-2
Dennis Wu 6-2 Judy Sun/Jimmy Moon 6-2
James Harrison 6-2
Elkins HS tournament results September 15-16
Xinxin Wang/Branden Fradkin quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Renuka Rege/Saloni Singh quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Karthik Prasad octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Sailesh Prabhu octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Scott Lin/Isabella Chen 2nd place novice CX debate
Michelle Fernandez/Thomas Zhang 3rd place novice CX debate
Michelle Atkins/Kate Bleakley quarterfinals novice CX debate
Michael Feng/Georgia McLendon quarterfinals novice CX debate
Deer Park HS tournament results September 8-9
Anand Habib quarterfinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Pamela Nickell octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Umar Alam octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Austin Grogin octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Lara Brenner/Hyungjoo Han quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Xinxin Feng/Kim Zhou quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Celina Aldape/Ngozi Lawanson semifinals novice CX debate
Wilma Qiu/Chelsea Zhang semifinals novice CX debate
Henry Lu/David Wang semifinals novice CX debate
Anna Fisher/Angela Zhu semifinals novice CX debate
Vijay Kasschau 1st place speaker CX debate
Xinxin Wang 2nd place speaker CX debate
Michelle Atkins 1st place speaker novice CX debate
Michael Feng 2nd place speaker novice CX debate
Katy Taylor HS tournament results September 8-9
David Chan/Vijay Kasschau quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Zach Garber/Daniel Petkevich quarterfinals Cross Examination debate
Charles Chen double octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Kevin Shen double octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Michael Feng/Georgia McLendon 1st place novice CX debate
Mengwei Ni/Sharon Sun 2nd place novice CX debate
Terrence Liu/Andrew Yang 3rd place novice CX debate
Foster HS tournament results August 25-26
Arnav Chakravarty/Aaron Ru 2nd place Cross Examination Debate
Chris Fan/Satish Vemuri semifinals Cross Examination Debate
Danila Kabotyanski/Daniel Petkevich quarterfinals Cross Examination Debate
Xinxin Wang/Brendan Fradkin quarterfinals Cross Examination Debate
Charles Chen octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Daniel Gwen octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Thomas Lei double octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Karthik Prasad double octofinals Lincoln Douglas debate
Daniel Gwen 2nd place speaker Lincoln Douglas Debate
Congratulations to Bellaire Winners at Alief Elsik's
Tournament!
Chris Fan and Satish Vemuri - 2nd Place in Championship Cross-Examination Debate
Alicia Lau and Shirley Li - 2nd Place in Novice Cross-Examination
Muthu Alagappan - 3rd Place in Championship Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Muthu Alagappan 1st place Speaker Award in Champ Lincoln Douglas Debate
Alicia Lau - First Place Speaker Award in Novice Cross-Examination Debate
Shirley Li - Second Place Speaker Award in Novice Cross-Examination Debate
Bellaire Debaters Win at NFL Nationals
Bellaire High School participated in the 76th annual Lincoln Financial Group National Forensic League
National Speech and Debate tournament June 19-23, 2006 in Dallas. Bellaire qualified 11 students to
the national tournament and in so doing won the South Texas NFL District Sweepstakes plaque for
the 36th time in 43 years.
Seniors Alec Swafford and Henry Tsai won 6th place in policy debate. Alec & Henry were 12-0 in
the preliminary rounds (one of only 5 teams in the field of over 200 to do so). Senior Matt Abedi and
junior Arnav Chakravarty earned 15th place in policy debate. These two teams under the coaching of
Russell Rach were responsible for Bellaire High School earning an Excellence in Debate award at the
National Tournament. Bellaire was one of only five schools in the nation to earn this award at the
tournament (the others include Springfield Central HS, MO; Nova High School, FL; Springfield
Parkview HS, MO; and Southwest Lincoln HS, NE.) This is also the first time since 1993 that two
Bellaire policy debate teams have finished in the top 15. In 1993 Danny David & Benjamin Greenberg
earned 8th place and Leslie Meltzer & Guy Goldberg earned 10th place at the Nationals held in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Senior Chris Williams advanced to round 8 of United States Extemporaneous Speaking. Other Bellaire
debaters participating at nationals included sophomore Zach Garber in International Extemp, juniors
Aaron Ru & Danila Kabotyanski in Public Forum Debate, seniors Kyle Bean & Jason Leva in policy
debate, and freshman Grace Sun in Student Congress.
Jay Stubbs was awarded the 2006 James M. Copeland Award as NFL Coach of the Year. Previous
winners of this award from Bellaire High School include Mollie Martin and Cecil Pickett (1958 &
1959), June Smith (1968), June Smith and Bill Henderson (1970), and David Johnson (1984 & 2002).
The season began with our celebration of the 50th annual Bellaire Forensic Tournament. After setting
TFA records in the number of CX state qualifiers (18) and LD state qualifiers (11), a 3rd place finish
in the Bickell Brewer competition (for the second consecutive year), advancing teams at TFA State,
UIL State, NCFL Nationals and NFL Nationals, and finishing the year with the largest squad in NFL
history with 854 degrees we believe the 50th season of debate competition at Bellaire High School has
been a success.
2006-2007 NFL OFFICERS ELECTED
The following students were elected to office for 2006-2007:
President Arnav Chakravarty
Vice President Muthu Alagappan
Secretary Christine Lu
Treasurer Karthik Prasad
Publicity Director
Press Release
Social Coordinator Anna Meyerson
Historian Gustavo Herrera
CX Research Captains Zach Garber
Daniel Petkevich
Satish Vemuri
CX Novice Captains Shanna Chu
Chris Fan
Jenny Fan
LD Captains Muthu Alagappan
Umar Alam
