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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 octofinals Domestic Extemp Nick Garbarino/Andrew Garbarino quarterfinals Karthik Prasad octofinals Jacob Uzman 4th place Xinxin Wang/Brendan Fradkin quarterfinals Sylvia Sun octofinals Prose Novice CX Novice LD Rachel Freeman 3rd place 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. 2005-2006 Results & Stories from Spring 2005-January, 2006 2005-2006 Results & Stories from January, 2006-March, 2006 2005-2006 Bellaire Debate Pictures 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 |
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