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Bellaire Debaters successful at NFL Nationals The National Forensic League hosted the National Speech & Debate Tournament June 18-22, 2007 in Wichita, Kansas. Bellaire Debaters were quite successful during the tournament. Muthu Alagappan, junior, advanced to round 10 of United States Extemp and Sesenu Woldemariam, freshman, advanced to finals of Student Congress. Woldemariam missed out on the final ballot by just one point. Mr. Russell Rach was presented his 2nd Diamond Award for coaching and Mr. Jay Stubbs received his 4th Diamond Award. Pictures from the tournament can be seen by clicking on this link. Tournament season resumes in September with next year's NFL Nationals being hosted in Las Vegas Nevada in June 2007. Bellaire Debate co-hosts NCFL Nationals On Memorial Day weekend over 4,500 students, coaches and judges came to Houston to participate in the 56th annual NCFL Grand National Speech & Debate tournament. Bellaire High School hosted Cross Examination Debate, Oral Interpretation of Literature, and Oral Declamation. Lamar High School, Pin Oak Middle School, and Pershing Middle School hosted the other events offered in the tournament. Thanks goes out to our students and parents who played very important roles in making the tournament successful. Additional thanks go out to members of administration, plant operations and area debate coaches for their signficant contributions. NCFL is one of two national speech & debate tournaments to be hosted each year. This is the first time ever for HISD schools to host one of the national tournaments. Next year the NCFL Grand National Tournament will be ho hosted in Appleton, Wisconsin. 2007-2008 Bellaire Debate Officers Satish Vemuri President Xinxin Wang Vice President Hyungjoo Han Secretary Steven Maheshwary Treasurer Sailesh Prabhu Publicity Director Zexing Meng Press Release Seth Romo Social Coordinator Qianning Zhang Historian Jenny Fan & Jacob Uzman CX Research Captains Andrew Garbarino & Shubha Soman CX Novice Captains Muthu Alagappan & Karthik Prasad Lincoln Douglas Captains Bellaire Debaters advance to NFL Nationals Four members of the Bellaire Debate squad advanced to the Lincoln Life National Forensic League National Speech and Debate tournament. Satish Vemuri and Xinxin Wang qualified in cross examination debate, Muthu Alagappan qualified in United States extemp and Sesenu Woldemariam qualified in Student Congress. The tournament will be held in Wichita, Kansas in June. Bellaire finishes second in nation in NPPF Juniors Chris Fan, Jenny Fan, Satish Vemuri and sophomore Shanna Chu competed in the final round of the National Public Policy Forum in New York City. Bellaire defeated Henry Clay HS from Lexington, Kentucky in the semifinal round. The win in semifinals advanced the team to the final round against the defending champion Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts from West Palm Beach, Florida. The law firm of Bickel & Brewer and New York University announced a 4-3 decision in the final round in favor of Dreyfoos. The NPPF is the only national contest that gives high school students the opportunity to participate in written and oral debates on issues of public policy. Schools compete in written debates over a six month period before the final four schools emerge to compete in an oral debate competition at NYU. This is the third consecutive year Bellaire has advanced to the final four at NYU and the first year the team has advanced to the final round. The two schools debated the following topic in the final round Resolved: The United States federal government should establish a policy substantially increasing the number of persons serving in one of the following national service programs: Peace Corps or Armed Forces. To view the articles from HISD and the Houston Chronicle click the links. 2 Advance to UIL State Karthik Prasad and Muthu Alagappan advanced from the regional competition held at Alief Taylor High School to attend the University Interscholastic League State Tournament. Karthik advanced in Lincoln Douglas Debate and Muthu advanced in Perseausive Speaking. The state tournament will be held on the campus of the University of Texas. 97th Annual UIL CX State Tournament Results The University Interscholastic League (UIL) held its 97th annual CX State Debate Tournament on the campus of the University of Texas March 16-17. Shubha Soman & Jenny Fan (pictured right) had a record of 4-0 in the preliminary rounds of the tournament and advanced to the octofinal round. This was Soman & Fan's first trip to the UIL State tournament. Congratulations. Bellaire Debate Advances to Bickel Brewer Final Four Satish Vemuri, Chris Fan, Jenny Fan, Shubha Soman and Shanna Chu successfully defeated Kamehameha High School from Hawaii in the quarterfinal round. This is the third consecutive year that Bellaire has advanced to the Final Four. Henry Clay High School from Kentucky, Glenbrook North High School from Illinois and last years defending champion Alexander W. Dreyfoos High School from Florida will join Bellaire in the Final Four April 20-22 at New York University in New York City. TFA State Tournament results March 1-3 CCX CCX Speaker Awards Arnav Chakravarty/Xinxin Wang octofinals Arnav Chakravarty 11th place Xinxin Wang 18th place CLD CLD Speaker Awards Karthik Prasad double octofinals Karthik Prasad 19th place Thomas Lei double octofinals Student Congress Grace Sun semifinals House Essay Eden semifinals Senate Lamar HS tournament results February 9-10 CCX CLD Muthu Alagappan/Vijay Kasschau 1st place Kevin Shen 1st place Brendan Fradkin/Scott Lin 2nd place Matt Hodge double octos James Harrison double octos HoBin Lim double octos Jun Chen double octos Anderson HS tournament results February 2-3 CLD Karthik Prasad quarterfinals Alief Taylor HS tournament results February 2-3 CCX CLD Brendan Fradkin/Scott Lin quarterfinals Rohini Sigireddi double octos Charles Chen double octos Eisenhower HS tournament results January 26-27 2nd place overall sweepstakes CCX CLD Andrew Garbarino/Nick Garbarino 2nd Place Matthew Hodge quarterfinals David Chan/Vijay Kasschau semifinals Louise Lu octofinals Zexing Meng/Yi Zhang quarterfinals Dennis Qian octofinals Michael Feng/Tom Zhang octofinals Sesesnu Woldemariam octofinals Ruyi Yao/Judy Sun octofinals NLD Aryam Andom semifinals Laurence Nguyen octofinals Hui Yu octofinals Tanya Chen octofinals Bickel Brewer team advances to national quarterfinals Bellaire debaters defeated students from Maize High School (Kansas) in the sweet 16 round of the Bickel & Brewer National Public Policy Forum contest. The sweet 16 round involved Bellaire on the affirmative and Maize on the negative exchanging papers several times before judges rendered their decision. On a 3-0 decision Bellaire advances to the quarterfinals where they will face Kamehameha High School from Hawaii. The winner of the quarterfinal round will earn a trip to New York City in April to compete for the Bickel & Brewer Cup. For more information concerning the contest you can visit the Bickel & Brewer National Public Policy Forum website. Congratulations. Aldine HS tournament results January 19-20 CCX CLD Brendan Fradkin/Scott Lin quarterfinals Dennis Qian 2nd place Liang Gu/Kai Zhang quarterfinals Sylvia Sun semifinals Rohini Sigireddi octofinals Tony Deng octofinals Katy HS tournament results January 12-13 CCX CLD Jenny Fan.Shubha Soman 2nd place Josh Rozner double octofinals Danila Kabotyanski/Chian Lin semifinals Austin Grogin double octofinals Shanna Chu/Kim Zhou semifinals Matt Hodge double octofinals Arnav Chakravarty/Xinxin Wang quarterfinals Sesenu Woldemariam double octofinals NLD Louise Lu quarterfinals Ashley Duan octofinals Westfield HS tournament results January 5-6 4th place overall sweepstakes CCX CLD Jenny Fan/Shubha Soman octofinals Thomas Lei quarterfinals Xinxin Wang/Shanna Chu octofinals Sesenu Woldemariam quarterfinals Kaylor Wright octofinals NCX Austin Grogin double octofinals Yousup Lee/Billy Hu quarterfinals Karthik Prasad double octofinals Kai Zhang/Liang Gu quarterfinals Steven Maheshwary double octofinals Celina Aldape 6th place US Extemp NLD Annie Kuntz 4th place Poetry Louise Lu 1st place Ruiji Jiang quarterfinals Clear Lake HS tournament results December 8-9 CCX NLD Danila Kabotyanski/Chian Lin quarterfinals Tony Deng octofinals Scott Lin/Zexing Meng quarterfinals NCX Yuanzhuo Wang/Luyang Zheng 3rd place Xiaoyu Wang/David Codron 3rd place CCX Speaker Awards Danila Kabotyanski 3rd place Bay City HS tournament results December 1-2 CCX CLD Danila Kabotyanski/Chian Lin quarterfinals James Harrison 2nd place Sesenu Woldemariam 3rd place NCX Yousup Lee/Billy Hu 3rd place NLD Tanya Chen 3rd place Javier Vazquez-Trejo quarterfinals Jenny Kim quarterfinals Louise Lu quarterfinals Patrick Lu octofinals Yixin Xia octofinals Ashley Duan octofinals Ruiji Jiang octofinals Scarborough HS tournament results November 17-18 1st place Debate Sweepstakes CCX CLD William Hong/Christine Lu 3rd place Muthu Alagappan 3rd place Essay Eden/Herbie Wei 3rd place Thomas Lei quarterfinals Max Curry/Kevin Sego quarterfinals Dennis Qian octofinals Jenny Fan/Shubha Soman quarterfinals HoBin Lim octofinals Steven Maheshwary octofinals NCX Sesenu Woldemariam double octofinals Michelle Atkins/Kate Bleakley closed out finals Josh Rozner double octofinals Ruobing He/Sharon Sun closed out finals Sailesh Prabhu double octofinals Jimmy Moon/Tom Zhang closed out finals Wen Zhang double octofinals Judy Sun/Ruyi Yao closed out finals Austin Grogin double octofinals Tong Li/Luyang Zheng closed out finals Millie Chen/Qi Fu closed out finals NLD Liang Gu/Kai Zheng closed out finals Ruiji Jiang 2nd place Henry Han/Joshua Chang closed out finals Jenny Kim 3rd place Janie Qin quarterfinals CCX Speaker Awards Louise Lu double octofinals Vijay Kasschau 2nd place CLD Speaker Awards NCX Speaker Awards Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place Sharon Sun 1st place Thomas Lei 3rd place Kate Bleakley 2nd place Michelle Atkins 3rd place NLD Speaker Awards Louise Lu 1st place Muthu Alagappan 1st place Foreign Extemp Rachel Freeman 3rd place Poetry Gustavo Herrera 3rd place Student Congress Austin Grogin 7th place Poetry Austin Grogin 3rd place Prose Annie Kuntz 8th place Dramatic Interp Klein HS tournament results November 10-11 CCX CLD Brendan Fradkin/Xinxin Wang quarterfinals Sailesh Prabhu quarterfinals Essay Eden/ Herbie Wei quarterfinals Daniel Gwen octofinals Justin Sun octofinals NCX Jimmy Moon/Terrence Liu closed out finals NLD Mengwei Ni/Sharon Sun closed out finals Tony Deng octofinals Alex Hu/ Billy Hu closed out finals Jenny Kim octofinals Erik Nelson octofinals CCX Speaker awards Brendan Fradkin 2nd place Student Congress Xinxin Wang 3rd place Grace Sun 3rd place NCX Speaker awards Alex Hu 1st place Jimmy Moon 2nd place Terrence Liu 3rd place Little Cypress-Mauriceville tournament results November 10-11 CX Thomas Zhang/Michael Feng 2nd place Kate Bleakley/Michelle Atkins 4th place Bickel Brewer team advanced to Sweet 16 for third consecutive year Congratulations to Daniel Petkevich, Jenny, Fan, Zachary Garber, Shanna Chu, Satish Vemuri and Chris Fan for leading Bellaire into the elimination rounds of the Bickel-Brewer National Public Policy Forum contest for the third year in a row. Their research paper was chosen as one of the top sixteen papers in the nation and was chosen as the best case from the Southwest Region. Exactly 100 schools participated in the initial round of the contest sponsored by the Bickel & Brewer Law Firm and New York University. The team will now compete in the round of 16 with the elite eight schools announced January 10, 2007. For more information concerning the contest you can visit the Bickel & Brewer National Public Policy Forum website. 2006-2007 Results & Stories from June, 2006-November, 2006 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 Bellaire Debate Pictures |
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