STATE CHAMPIONS!!!!  REPEATED!!!!

Congratulations to the State Champion North Allegheny Speech and Debate Team. 
 
Narrowly beating their toughest state rival Holy Ghost by just 2.5 points (149 to 146.5), the team took home two individual state championships.
 
Senior Drew Bjorklund won first place in Lincoln Douglas debate finishing with a split decision in the final round against Danville.
 
Juniors Siddarth Narayan and Apoorv (Nony) Anand won also in a 5-0 decision in the final round in Public Forum Debate against State College.
 
Other students advancing to the break rounds (Quarter-finals and higher) –
 
In addition to Bjorklund, the other North Allegheny competitor in Lincoln Douglas made it to quarterfinals.  Junior Nila Suresh finished in the top 8 in the state.
 
In the Student Senate, Senior Sarah Ricci finished 2^nd in the state behind her North Catholic friend and yearlong rival.
 
The Parliamentary Debate team comprised of Helena Bates, Marisa DelSignore, and Annie Sippel finished in the quarterfinals.
 
Junior Grace Jin finished 3^rd in the state in Persuasive Speaking.
 
In Informative Speaking, Senior Andy Mendes made it to the semi-final round, and Junior Jasmine Mahajan finished in 5^th place.
 
In Humorous Interpretation of Literature, Junior Grace Traynor finished in 5^th place in the state, and Senior Jeff Zeng made it to the semi-final round.
 
In Duo Interpretation of Literature, Seniors Austin Sober and Alex Venezia made the semi-final round, placing them in the top 12 in the state.
 
In Dramatic Interpretation of Literature, Sophomore Samir Yellepragada made semi-finals.

In Impromptu Speaking, Junior Zain Mehdi advanced to semi-finals.
 
And finally, in an event that North Allegheny normally does not do, the Junior team of Eric Mi and Joe Zhao finished in quarterfinals of Policy Debate.
 
 
 
At the local National Speech and Debate Association District Tournament, North Allegheny took home the top school award, 2nd in speech, 2nd in debate, as well as two district championships. These members of the team will compete this summer in Dallas, TX.
 
Drew Bjorklund won the district title in Lincoln Douglas Debate.

Grace Jin was declared the district champion for her original oratory called “Couponing to College,” a speech on self-control and how it impacts our lives. 

Siddarth Narayan and and Apoorv (Nony) Anand came in second in Public Forum Debate, and these two are credited for “tripling,” the term used in forensics when a student qualifies in the three big district qualifying tournaments – the state league, the National Speech and Debate Association District tournament, and the National Catholic Forensic League District tournament.
 
 
Jason Hu came in 2^nd place in student congress. 
 
And Pittsburgh was recently selected to be a part of the prestigious World Debates that takes place the same week as the NSDA National Tournament. Michael Tai was selected to be a part of this city-wide team.

Others who did well were  - 

Grace Traynor and Samir Yellapragada, 5th and 4th, respectively, in Dramatic Interp.
Eugenia Lee and Angela Lu - 5th in duo, and Nandita Kannapadi and Serena El-Khatib, 3rd in duo.
Andy Mendes - 5th in Original Oratory.

Yara El-Khatib and Annie Sippel, 5th and 3rd respectively, in International Extemp.

Jason Hu and Michael Tai - 6th in Public Forum, Anmol Anand and Anrey Peng - 5th in PF.

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For the Catholic Forensic League District Tournament, the following students won slots to attend this tournament in Ft. Lauderdale over Memorial Day Weekend:
 
Joe Zhao and Nila Suresh in Lincoln Douglas.
Julie Chen and Michael Tai, and Siddarth Narayan and Apporv Anand in Public Forum.
Sophomores Nandita Kannapadi and Serena El-Khatib, and Christina Cheung and Jeff Zeng in Duo Interpretation of Literature.
Grace Traynor qualified in Dramatic Performance.

• Grace Jin, Andy Mendes, and Niki Krishna all qualified in Original Oratory.

PHSSL Districts Champions! 

Policy Debate 

Erica Fan and Kimberly DelSignore - 1st place

Eric Mi and Joe Zhao - 2nd place

Public Forum Debate

Jason Hu and Michael Tai - 1st place

Nony Anand and Siddarth Narayan - 2nd place

Lincoln Douglas Debate 

Drew Bjorklund - 1st place

Nila Suresh - 2nd place

Parliamentary Debate 

Anagha Arunkumar, Yara El-Khatib, and Julie Karabin - 1st

Marisa DelSignore, Annie Sippel, and Helena Bates - 2nd

Informative Speaking

Jasmine Mahajan - 1st 

Andy Mendes - 2nd 

Persuasive

Grace Jin - 1st

Poetry

Adia Augustin - 3rd

Senate

Sarah Ricci - 2nd

Extemporaneous Speaking

Brendan Grzyb - 1st

Duo Interp

Austin Sober and Alex Venezia - 1st

Dramatic Interp

Samir Yellepragada - 1st

Humorous Interp

Grace Traynor - 1st

Jeff Zeng - 2nd

Pine Richland Sweeps

Debate 2nd

Speech 3rd Overall 3rd 

Good Person Award

Jason Hu

Congress

Presiding Officer in House B Sarah Ricci

Lincoln Douglas

Drew Bjorklund 6th

Erica Fan 2nd

Extemp

Kayla Badamo 5th

Liz Guo 6th

OO

Grace Jin 1st

Shanelle Fernando 3rd

HI 

Grace Traynor 5th

Duo 

Austin Sober and Alex Venezia 2nd

Mercer Rotary

Sweeps

Speech - 2nd

Public Forum

Julie Chen and Elaine Xu - 3rd

Nony Anand and Siddarth Narayan - 6th

Original Oratory

Shanelle Fernando - 1st

United States Extemp

Kayla Badamo - 3rd

Anushka Shah - 6th

International Extemp

Zain Mehdi - 5th

Humorous Interpretation

Grace Traynor - 2nd

Duo Interpretation

Austin Sober and Alex Venezia - 2nd

Asha Dasari and Caroline Huang - 5th

Laird Lewis Invitational

Public Forum

Eric Dunbar and Sareen Ali - Quarterfinals

Sean Tao and Nikhil Cherukupalli - Double Octofinals

North Allegheny

Sweeps

Debate - 3rd

Speech- 2nd

Overall - 1st

Lincoln Douglas

Drew Bjorklund - 1st

Duo Interpretation

Christina Cheung and Jeff Zeng - 3rd

Serena El-Khatib and Nandita Kannapadi - 4th

International Extemp

Brendan Grzyb - 1st

Sheel Kundu - 4th

Original Oratory

Shanelle Fernando - 1st

Jasmine Mahajan - 3rd

United States Extemp

Kayla Badamo - 2nd

Mason Blackburn - 6th

Central Catholic

1st Place Overall Sweeps
2nd Place Speech Sweeps
1st Place Debate Sweeps

Oral Interp

4th Adia Augustin

OO

1st Grace Jin

Extemp

3rd Kayla Badamo

HI

2nd Grace Traynor

4th Jeff Zeng

PF

3rd Julie Chen & Elaine Xu

LD

1st Kimberly Del Signoire

2nd Drew Bjorklund

3rd Nila Suresh

4th Joe Zhou

Poland

North Allegheny - Overall - 6th

Public Forum

Anmol Anand and Anrey Peng - 6th

Jason Hu and Maddie Lambert - 5th

Marisa DelSignore and Casey Mrazik - 4th

Lincoln Douglas

Drew Bjorklund - 2nd

International Extemp

Zain Medhi - 3rd

North Catholic

Congress - Top 3

Kayla Badamo

Sarah Ricci

Taylor Allderdice

Lincoln Douglas

Vibha Reddy - First

Bronx

Lincoln Douglas

Gabe Ren - Double Octofinals

Walt Whitman

Lincoln Douglas

Joe Zhao- Double Octofinals

Quigley

(all places are top 5)

Extemp

Brendan Grzyb

Mason Blackburn

Lincoln Douglas

Kimberly Delsignore

Duo Interp

Yuri Tamama/Aaron Burmester

Public Forum

Raghu Venkatesh/Sricharan Chaganti

USC Novice

Duo

First- Yuri Tamama/Aaron Burmester

Third- Eugenia Lee/Angela Lu

Extemp

Second- Elizabeth Guo

Fourth- Mason Blackburn

Oratory

Fifth- Gayathri Manchella

GMU Patriot Games

Public Forum

Jason Hu and Maddie Lambert - Double Octofinals

Siddarth Narayan and Nony Anand - Triple Octofinals

Erica Fan and Helena Bates - Triple Octofinals

Lincoln Douglas

Kimberly DelSignore - Quaterfinals

Nila Suresh - Double Octofinals

Storytelling

Catherine Zhang - 6th

Humorous

Jeff Zeng - Quaterfinals

Dramatic

Samir Yellapragada - Quaterfinals

Oratory

Grace Jin - 4th

Yale

Sid Narayan  / Nony Anand -  top 16 in Public Forum

Marisa DelSignore / Nikhil Cherukapalli - top 64 in Public Forum

Grace Traynor - top 24 in Drama

Sheel Kundu - top 24 in Extemp

Adia Augustin  top 24 in Prose/Poetry

Grace Jin - top 48 in Oratory

Joe Zhao - top 64 in Lincoln Douglas

Wake Forest

Early Bird Tournament

6th Place Overall

Drew Bjorklund Quarters (Varsity Lincoln Douglas)

Michael Tai/Sean Tao Double octos (Varsity Public Forum )

Andy Mendes Semis (Oratory)

Adia Augustin Semis (Oratory)

Zain Mehdi Quarters (Extemp)

Gabe Ren Finals (2nd overall in Varsity Lincoln Douglas with a TOC bid)

Thomas Kim Octos (JV Lincoln Douglas)

Joe Zhao Double octos (Varsity Lincoln Douglas)

PHSSL STATE CHAMPIONS

North Allegheny Speech and Debate wins first state title

   The speakers and debaters at North Allegheny have scrapbooks full of newspaper articles and a trophy case filled to the edges with awards, but one accolade has noticeably been missing for them: The state championship.

   Until now.

   This past weekend, the North Allegheny team members beat some of their toughest rivals, and by quite a few points.  NA finished the tournament with 171.5 points against their toughest opponent, Holy Ghost Prep (124.5). Upper St. Clair finished 3^rd with 116.5, Bishop Shanahan was 4^th with 112, McDowell was 5^th with 110 and Bethel Park was 6^th with 99.

   Several North Allegheny students added state titles to their high school résumés.  Senior Pragna Sutrave won 1^st place in Persuasive Speaking, and juniors (and first year team members) Christina Cheung and Austin Sober finished first in Duo Interpretation of Literature (competitive 2-person acting). 

   Other students who contributed to the NA win at Susquehanna University were Jason Hu, Kyle Silberstein, and Catherine Liu – the semifinalist team in Parliamentary Debate; Drew Bjorklund – semifinalist in Lincoln Douglas Debate;Hemanth Venkatesh and Brandon Raymond – semifinalists in Public Forum Debate;Sheel Kundu – 6^th in Extemporaneous Speaking; Annie Sippel – 4th in Impromptu; Catherine Zhang – 3^rd in Humorous Interpretation of Literature; Elly Silberstein – 3rd in Serious Dramatic Interpretation of Literature; Dom Moore – semifinalist in Radio Announcing; and Ashok Biju semifinalist in Extemporaneous Speaking.

NFL Quals

North Allegheny - BEST TEAM IN THE DISTRICT

BEST SPEECH TEAM IN THE DISTRICT

BEST CONGRESS TEAM IN THE DISTRICT 

Qualifying to NFL Nationals

Catherine Zhang and Elly Silberstein - 1st in Duo

Dom Moore - 1st in US

Sheel Kundu - 1st in IX

Venkatesh and Raymond - 5th in PF

Jin and Traynor - 4th in Duo

Pragna Sutrave - 4th in OO

Niki Krishna - 5th in OO

Kayla Badamo - 3rd in US

Jack You - 5th in US

Ashok Biju - 4th in IX

Brendan Grzyb - 5th in IX

Elly Silberstein - 3rd in DI

Jeff Zeng - 5th in HI

Joe Zhao - 3rd in LD

CFL Quals

Extemp

Annie Sippel

Mike Helgerman 

OO

Pragna Sutrave

Niki Krishna.  1st alt

Duo

Elly Silberstein and Catherine zhang

Anisha and Nandita  

LD

Drew Bjorklund

1st alt Nila suresh 

PF

Danny Driscoll and Surabhi Beriwal

Maria LaBella and Natalie Morrissey

Nony Anand and Siddarth Narayan

Declamation

Shanelle Fernando

Congress

SarahRicci

Unofficial Congress 

Jason Hu 4th

Pranav Murthy 5th

PHSSL districts

First in the District!!!

Policy

1st Surabhi Beriwal and Danny Driscoll

2nd Erica Fan and Nikhil Cherukapali

Parlie

2nd Helena Bates,Sarah Luo,Sravanthi Chintakunta

1st Jason Hu, Kyle Silberstein, Catherine Liu

LD

2nd Wesley Swanson

1st Drew Bjorklund

PF

5th Maria LaBella and Natalie Morrissey 2nd alt

2nd Hemanth Venkatesh and Brandon Raymond

Senate

6th Annie Sippel

3rd Kayla Badamo

Extemp

1st. Sheel Kundu

2nd Ashok Biju

DI

3rd Alex Venezia.   Alt

1st Elly Silberstein

HI

3rd Medha Sharma.  Alt

2nd Catherine Zhang

Commentary

4th Dom Moore.  2nd alt

Informative

3rd Jasmine Mahajan alt

2nd Natalie Lewis

Persuasive

5th Andy Mendes

1st Pragna Sutrave

Duo Interp

6th Grace Traynor and Grace Jin 

1st Austin Sober and Christina Cheung

Prose

5th Jeff Zeng

Taylor Allderdice

LD

EricRicci - 1st 

JoeZhao - 2nd

GunasheilMandava - 5th

PF

Dunbarand Reddy - 2nd

Chenand Xu - 5th

Congress

SarahRicci - P.O.

Bethel Park

1st Debate Sweeps

1st Overall Sweeps

HI

Quarters

Serena Nicoll

Alexandra Newton

Olivia Dilius

Jeff Zeng

Catherine Zhang

PF

Quarters

Nony Anand and Siddarth Narayan

Maria LaBella and Natalie Morrissey

Semis

Brandon Raymond and Hemanth Venkatesh

2nd - Maddie Lambert and Jason Hu

LD

Quarters 

Drew Bjorklund

1st - Joe Zhou

OO

Quarters

Natalie Lewis

Samir Yellapragada

Jasmine Mahajan

Niki Krishna

Shanelle Fernando

6th - Sareen Ali

4th -Pragna Sutrave

Extemp

Quarters

Dom Moore

Brendan Gryzb

Ashook Biju

Jack You

Ashwin Biju

Annie Sippel

4th Sheel Kundu

Duo

Quarters

Grace Jin and Grace Traynor

Nandita Kannapadi and Anisha Yarlagadda

Poetry

Quarters

Sami Heller

Semis

Adia Augustin

Congress

Ashwin Reddy

Danny Driscoll 

6th Sarah Ricci

Knoch
Extemp
Dom Moore - 2nd 
Annie Sippel - 3rd 
Sheel Kundu - 4th
Ashok Biju - 6th 
Duo 
Austin Sober andChristina Cheung - 6th 
HI
Jeff Zeng 2nd 
Olivia Diulus - 6th 
DI
Elly Silberstein 5thplace
OO
Pragna Sutrave 2nd
 Poetry
Adia Augustin - 1st 
 LD
 Kimberly DelSignore - 4th
 Eric Ricci - 5th
Anasatsia Shabalov - 6th
 Parlie
Combermale / Sidique / Tang -5th
Karabin / Bates / Liu - 6th
 PF
Beriwal / Chang - 1st
Venkatesh / Raymond - 2nd
Anand / Peng - 3rd

Pine Richland

Dominic Moore-1^st place in Extemp

Kayla Badamo- 5^th place in Extemp

Anastasia Shabalov- 6^th place in LD

Maria LaBella- 1^st place in Congress

Elly Silberstein- 2^nd place in DI

Catherine Zhang- 3^rd place in HI

Grace Traynor and Grace Jin- 5^th place in Duo

Surabhi Beriwal- 2^nd place in Impromptu

Robby Dunbar- 5^th place in Impromptu

Sareen Ali- 2^nd in OO

Niki Krishna- 3^rd place in OO
Samir Yellapragada - 6th in OO

North Allegheny

Natalie Morrissey and Maria LaBella- 1^st place in PF

Brandon Raymond and Hemanth Venkatesh- 2^nd place in PF

Kelsey Neff and Sneha Srinivasnan- 4^th place in PF

Catherine Liu, Helena Bates, Julie Karabin- 1^st place in Parlie

Kyle Silberstein, Sohail Sidique, Caroline Combermale- 3^rd  place in Parlie

Sarah Luo, Rebecca Lee, Shravanthi Chintakunta- 4^th place in Parlie

Elly Silberstein- 1^st place in DI

Grace Traynor and Grace Jin- 3^rd place in Duo

Catherine Zhang- 3^rd place in HI

Dominic Moore- 1^st place in US Extemp

Kayla Badamo- 5^th place in US Extemp

Annie Sippel- 5^th place in International Extemp

Brendan Grzyb- 6^th place in International Extemp

Niki Krishna- 1^st place in OO

Laird Lewis

Joe Zhao- Double Octafinals in LD

Natalie Morrissey and Maria LaBella- Double Octafinals in PF

Apoorv Anand and Siddarth Narayan- Triple Octafinals in PF

Maddie Lambert and Jason Hu- Triple Octafinals in PF

Natalie Morrissey and Maria LaBella- Challenge Semifinalists

Drew Bjorklund- Challenge Quarterfinalist

 Poland 

 Kayla Badamo - 6th in US Extemp
Anisha Reddy - 4th place in LD
Ragu and Katre Soran - 5th in PF
Pranav Murthy and Abhi Dhanvada - 2nd in PF

 Glenbrooks

Mike Tai and Sean Tao - Double-octos in PF 

GMU

Maria Labella and Natalie Morrissey - 2nd Place in PF
Nony Anand and Siddarth Narayan - Triple Octos in PF
Julie Chen and Elaine Xu - Triple Octos in PF
Marisa DelSignore and Dom Moore - Triple Octos in PF
Maddie Lambertand Jason Hu - Double Octos in PF
Drew Bjorklund- Semis in LD
Ashook Biju - Quarters In Impromtu
 Nila Suresh- Double Octos in LD
Anisha Reddy - Double Octos in LD
Gabe Ren -Octafinalist in LD

Upper St. Clair

Brittany Burmester - 4th in extemp
Zain Medhi - 3rd in extemp
Ashwin Biju - 2nd in extemp
 Grace Traynor - 1st in HI/DI
 Shanelle Fernando - 2nd in OO
Samir Yellapragada - 1st in OO
Anastasia Shabalov - 4th in LD
Eric Mi - 3rd in LD
David Bjorklund - 2nd in LD
Vibha Reddy - 1st in LD
 Anrey peng and Anmol Anand - 5th in PF
Siddarth Nayayan and Nony Anand - 3rd in PF
2 Nikhil Cherukapli and Joe Zhou - 2nd in PF

Quigley

Duo Top 5
Grace Jin and Grace Traynor

OO Top 5
Samir Yellapragada
Andy Mendes
Niki Krishna
Jessica Hood

 LD Top 10
Drew Bjorklund

PF Top 10
Sean Geiger Charles Ross
Sid Narayan and Nony Anand
Hemanth Venkatesh and Brandon Raymond

PF Top 3
Maria Labella and Marisa DelSignore

Walt Whitman 

 Marisa Delsignore and Mike Tai - Quarters in Public Forum

Emily He and Christina Wang - Quarters in Public Forum

Nony Anand and Siddarth Narayan - Quarters in Public Forum
Ashwin Reddyand Nikhil Cherukupalli- Octas in Public Forum

Perry, OH 
Drew Bjorklund - Octas in LD 

Wake Forest
Joe Zhou - Semis in JVLD
Maria Labella and Natalie Morrissey - Octafinals in PF

 Yale
Drew Bjorklund - Double Octafinals in VLD
Maria Labella and Natalie Morrissey- Triple Octafinals in PF
Marisa Delsignore and Danny Driscoll- Triple Octafinals in PF

NFL Nationals
Katherine Zhou and Lily Zhang - 2nd in the Nation - Duo Interp
Maria LaBella - 8th in the Nation - Supplemental Debate
Jenna Marinstein and Stephanie Metzger - Round 10 in PF (Top 40 in the nation)


Freshman-Sophomore Tournament
Jason Hu - 4th in poetry
Asia Agustin-2nd in poetry
Grace Jin and Grace Traynor - 1st in duo
Olivia Diulus-5th in duo
Zain Medhi-5th in extemp
Sheel Kundu-1st in extemp
 Erica Fan-2nd in LD
 Casey Mrazik and Marisa Delsigore-5th in PF
Elaine Xu and Julie Chen-3rd in PF
Nikhil Cherukapalli and Ashwin Reddy-1st in PF

STATES!!!

Overall – 4^th place
Priya Tumuluru – STATE CHAMPION IN INFORMATIVE SPEAKING!
Surabhi Beriwal 5^th best speaker in policy debate
Catherine Zhang – 2^nd place HI 
Morgan Lennon – Semi-finalist in Lincoln Douglas
Hemanth Venkatesh and Brandon Raymond –quarter-finalists in Public Forum.
Marisa DelSignore, Natalie Morrissey, and Maria LaBella –quarter-finalist in Parliamentary Debate.
Connor Phillips – 5^th place in extemporaneousspeaking
Natallie Dean – 3^rd place in radio announcing
Pragna Sutrave – Semi-finalist in Persuasive
Dom Moore – 4^th in Commentary
Twesha Mitra – 5^th in Dramatic Interp
Alex Venezia and Ethan DeRubbo – Semi-finalist in duo interp
Annie Sippel – Finalist in the Senate Super Session

NFL Qualifiers and Alternates
International Extemporaneous Speaking
Connor Phillips - District Champion and Qualified to Nationals
Jimmy Vinski - 3rd Alternate
United States Extemporaneous Speaking
Sheel Kundu - 2nd Place and Qualified to Nationals
Original Oratory
Priya Tumuluru - 2nd Place and Qualified to Nationals
Pragna Sutrave - 1st Alternate to Nationals
Dramatic Interpretation of Literature
Twesha Mitra - 2nd Place and Qualified to Nationals
Victoria Davis - 2nd Alternate to Nationals
Humorous Interpretation
Catherine Zhang - 2nd Place and Qualified to Nationals
Duo Interpretation of Literature
Katherine Zhou and Lily Zhang - Automatic Qualifiers to Nationals
Jason Noh and Brendan Ryu - 3rd Alternates to Nationals
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Morgan Lennon - 2nd Place and Qualified to Nationals
Public Forum Debate
Stephanie Metzger and Jenna Marinstein - 2nd Place and Qualified to Nationals
Congressional Debate
Kayla Badamo - First Place and Qualified to Nationals
Maria LaBella - Second Place and Qualified to Nationals

CFL Qualifiers and Alternates

Extemporaneous Speaking

Connor Phillips

Michael Helgerman

Ashok Biju (1st Alternate)

Aswin Biju (2nd Alternate)

Original Oratory

Priya Tumuluru 

Pragna Sutrave

Duo Interp

Katherine Zhou & Lily Zhang

Grace Jin & Grace Traynor

Alex Venezia & Ethan DeRubbo

Dramatic Performance

Catherine Zhang

Victoria Davis 

Public Forum

Maria LaBella & Michael Tai

Jenna Marinstein & Stephanie Metzger

Jason Hu & Maddie Lambert

Marisa DelSignore  & Natalie Morrissey 

Lincoln Douglas

Wesley Swanson

Drew Bjorklund

PHSSL

District Champions

Linda Zheng - 3^rd in Prose

Natalie Dean – 6^th in Prose
Grace Traynor – 6^th in Poetry
Victoria Davis - 2^nd in DI
Twesha Mitra – 3^rd in DI
Catherine Zhang – 2^nd  in HI
Mehda Sharma – 4^th in HI
Ethan DeRubbo and Alex Venezia – District Champions in Duo
Connor Phillips - District Champion in Extemp
Sheel Kundu – 2^nd in extemp
Dom Moore – District Champion in Commentary
Priya Tumuluru – 2^nd in Informative
Natalie Lewis – 6^th in Informative
Pragna Sutrave – District Champion in Persuasive
Andy Mendes – 3^rd in Persuasive
Annie Sippel District Champion in Senate
Sarah Ricci – 5^th in Senate
Jenna Marinstein and Steph Metzger – District Champions in Public Forum Debate
Hemanth Venkatesh and Brandon Raymond – 2^nd in Public Forum
Morgan Lennon – District Champion in Lincoln Douglas Debate
Tarek Maalouf – 2^nd in Lincoln Douglas Debate
Marisa DelSignore, Natalie Morrissey, and Maria LaBella – 2^nd in Parliamentary Debate
Sarah Luo, Catherine Liu, Angie Yau - 4th in Parliamentary Debate
Danny Driscoll and Surabhi Beriwal – 2^nd in Policy Debate
Massil Adnani and Drew Bjorklund – District Champions in Policy Debate

 Harvard

356 schools, 39 states, 3 countries represented, 4200 total students
Sophomore Massil Adnani -  Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas CHAMPION

(Ranked 3rd best speaker in the event after 6 rounds).

Sophomore Catherine Zhang- 3rd in Humorous Interpretation of Literature

Sophomore Drew Bjorklund- Double Octafinal Round in Junior Varsity Lincoln Douglas

(Ranked 1st speaker in the event after 6 rounds)

Seniors Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou - Octafinal Round in Duo Interpretation of Literature
Junior Dominic Moore- Octafinal Round in Extemporaneous Speaking
Senior Stephanie Metzger and Junior Maria LaBella - Triple Octafinal Round in Varsity Public Forum
Sophomores Mike Tai and Sean Tao- Triple Octafinal Round in Varsity Public Forum
Mike Tai ranked 21st speaker
Sophomore Catherine Liu and Junior Jenn Hoffman - Double Octafinal Round in Junior Varsity Public Forum

West Allegheny
Caroline Combemale, Kyle Silberstein, Sohail Sidique- 1st in Parliamentary 
James McGaa, Sarah Luo, Minjy Jung- 3rd in Parliamentary 
Abhi Dhanvada and Pranav Murthy - 2nd in PF



Bethel Park
1st in Debate
4th in Speech
3rd Overall
Priya Tumuluru -- 2nd place in OO
Niki Krishna -- quarter finalist in OO
Pragna Sutrave -- quarter finalist in OO
Tarek Maalouf - 2nd in LD

Drew Bjorklund - 3rd in LD

Wesley Swanson - 5th in LD

Natalie Morrissey, Mike Tai, Marisa DelSignore- 2nd Place Parliamentary
Angie Yau, Catherine Liu, Cindy Lee- Semi Finalists Parliamentary

Mercer

1st in Debate

3rd Overall

Michael Tai and Brandon Raymond – 1st in Public Forum

Ashwin Reddy and Nikhil Cherukapalli – 6th in Public Forum

Sarah Ricci - 1st in Congress 

Cindy Lee - 3rd in Congress 

Catherine Liu - 5th in Congress 

Sneha Srinivasan- 7th in Congress

Priya Tumuluru – 2nd in Original Oratory

Connor Phillips – 2nd in United States Extemp

Annie Sippel – 4th in United States Extemp

Michael Helgerman – 5th in United States Extemp

Drew Bjorklund – 6th in United States Extemp

Kayla Badamo – 2nd in International Extemp

Zain Mehdi – 7th in International Extemp

Linda Zheng – 1st in Prose

Victoria Davis – 1st in Dramatic Interp

Twesha Mitra – 3rd in Dramatic Interp

Catherine Zhang – 1st in Humorous Interp

Katherine Zhou and Lily Zhang – 4th in Duo Interp

 Pine Richland
3rd Overall
1st in Debate
Drew Bjorklund - 1st in LD
Surabhi Beriwal - 5th in LD
Priya Tumuluru - 5th in OO
Stephanie Metzger - Superior Speaker in House B
Casey Mrazik and Danny Driscoll - 5th in PF
Connor Phillips - 2nd in Ex
Maria LaBella - 3rd in Ex
Linda Zheng - 4th in Pr

North Allegheny

2nd Overall
3rd In Speech
1st in Debate
Katherine Zhou, Lily Zhang - 1st in Duo
Ethan DeRubbo, Alex Venezia - 6th in Duo
Catherine Zhang - 3rd in HI
Priya Tumuluru - 3rd in OO

Connor Phillips - 3rd in IX
Dom Moore - 3rd in US 

Surabhi Beriwal - 1st in LD
Massil Adnani - 2nd in LD
Drew Bjorklund - 3rd in LD
Tarek Maalouf - 4th in LD
Wesley Swanson - 6th in LD
Stephanie Metzger, Maria LaBella - 1st in PF

Brandon Raymond and Hemanth Venkatesh - 2nd in PF
Michael Tai and Sean Tao - 3rd in PF
Jenna Marinstein and Chris Chang - 5th in PF 

Knoch  Knights 

First Place Overall

Katherine Zhou, Lily Zhang - 1st in Duo

Grace Jin, Grace Traynor - 2nd in Duo

Ethan DeRubbo, Alex Venezia - 3rd in Duo

Linda Zheng, Natalie Dean - 5th in Duo

Varsha Ramasubramanian, Alexandra Newton - 6th in Duo

Catherine Zhang - 1st in HI

Olivia Diulus - 3rd in HI
Priya Tumuluru - 4th in OO
Anna Sinelnikova - 6th in OO
Drew Bjorklund 3rd in LD
Massil Adnani 4th in LD

1st: Jenna Marinstein and Chris Chang - 1st in PF

Hemanth Venkatesh and Brandon Raymond - 4th in PF

Ashwin Reddy and Nikhil Cherukapalli  - 5th in PF

Upper St. Clair Novice Tournament

Caroline Combermale, Kyle Silberstein, and Sohail Sidique - 2nd in Parlie
Emily He,Christina Wang, Sisi Tang - 3rd in Parlie
Jason Hu and Maddie Lambert - 1st in PF
Jaehee Cho and Pete Zheng - 2nd in PF
Drew Bjorklund - 1st in LD
Annie Sippel - 1st in Extemp
Kayla Badamo - 2nd in Extemp
Zain Mehdi - 3rd in Extemp
Grace Jin and Grace Traynor - 1st in Duo

Quigley Catholic

Top 10 in LD
Morgan Lennon 
Anisha Reddy
Drew Bjorklund
Massil Adnani

Nila Suresh
Wesley Swanson

Top 10 in PF
Metzger / LaBella
Venkatesh / Tao
Del Signore / Mrazik
Jung / Chen

Top 10 in OO
Priya Tumuluru
Adia Augustin

Top 5 in Extemp
Connor Phillips
Dominic Moore
Annie Sippel

Top 5 in Humorous
Catherine Zhang
Medha Sharma

Top 5 in Dramatic
Twesha Mitra

Top 5 in Duo
Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou
Grace Jin and Grace Traynor

Top 5 in Prose
Maddie Lambert

Central Catholic
Brother Rene Memorial Tournament
North Allegheny
First in Speech, Debate, and Overall
Hemanth Venkatesh and Brandon Raymond - 1st in PF
Marisa DelSignore and Natalie Morrissey - 2nd in PF 
Francesco Bochicchio and Erik Ricci - 1st in JV PF
Sashini Kannan and Sami Heller - 3rd in JV PF
Wesley Swanson - 2nd in LD
Nila Suresh - 1st in JV LD
Gabe Ren - 3rd in JV LD
Priya Tumuluru - 3rd in Original Oratory
Pragna Sutrave - 5th in Original Oratory
Andy Mendes - 6th in Original Oratory
Catherine Zhang - 2nd in HI
Twesha Mitra - 1st in DI
Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou - 1st in Duo
Grace Traynor and Grace Jin - 3rd in Duo
Connor Phillips - 2nd in Extemp
Stephanie Metzger - 5th in Extemp 

Yale

 Katherine Zhou and Lily Zhang - 2nd Place in Duo Interpretation
Maria LaBella and Stephanie Metzger -  Double Octafinals in Public Forum 
Marisa DelSignore and Natalie Morrissey -  Triple Octafinals in Public Forum

 Wake Forest

6th Place Team Overall
Massil Adnani  - 2nd in JV Lincoln Douglas
Anisha Reddy - Octos in Varsity Lincoln Douglas
Maria LaBella and Jenna Marinstein - Octos in Public Forum
Jason Hu and Natalie Morrisey - Double Octos in Public Forum
Hemanth Venkatesh and Danny Driscoll - Double Octos in Pubic Forum

Katherine Zhou and Lily Zhang

2nd in the nation

and

1st in the final round at nationals

Second Place in the State!
130 schools. 600 kids. We rock!!!!
Senior Abhi Mehra - 2nd in extemp
Juniors Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou - 2nd in duo
Juniors Stephane Metzger and Jenna Marinstein - Semi-finalists in PF
Junior Morgan Lennon - Semi-finalist in LD
Freshmen - Annie Sippel, Natalie Morrissey, Marisa DelSignore - Semi-finalist in Parlie
Freshman - Catherine Zhang - 3rd in HI
Sophmore - Medha Sharma - 5th in prose
Senior - Kaitlin Campbell - 6th in radio
Senior - Kara Morgan - semi-finalist in Congress
Junior - Connor Phillips - Quarter-finalist in impromptu


National Forensic LeagueCongratulations to the NFL qualifiers going to Indianapolis in June
Abhi Mehra - 2nd in United States Extemp
Connor Phillips - 1st in International Extemp
Katherine Zhou and Lily Zhang - 1st in Duo Interp
Anis Adnani - 1st in Congress

Congratulations also to 

Catherine Zhang - 4th in HI
Jason Now - 5th in HI
Kaitlin Campbell - 6th in DI
Dominic Moore - 4th in International Extemp
Linda Zheng / Natalie Dean - Semis in Duo
Priya Tumuluru - Semifinalist in Original Oratory
Pragna Sutrave - Semifinalist in Original Oratory
Natalie Lewis - Semifinalist in Original Oratory
Sheel Kundu - Semifinalist in United States Extemp
Perry Cheng - Semifinalist in United States Extemp
Michael Helgerman - Semifinalist in International Extemp
Ashok Biju - Semifinalist in International Extemp
Allen Wang - Semifinalist in International Extemp 

Pennsylvania High School Speech League

District Champions!

Informative

Jenn Hofmann - 2^nd  - qualified to states

Priya Tumuluru - 3^rd  - first alternate

Persuasive

Pragna Sutrave-2^nd - qualified to states
Natalie Lewis - 3^rd  place – first alternate

Commentary

Dominic Moore – 1^st – qualified to states
Extemp

Abhi Mehra – 2^nd – qualified to states

Connor Phillips – 3^rd – first alternate

Lincoln Douglas

Timmy Makkar – 1^st – qualified to states

Morgan Lennon – 2^nd – qualified to states

Public Forum

Stephanie Metzger and Jenna Marinstein – 1^st – qualified to states

Duo Interp

Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou – 1^st – qualified to states

Dramatic Interp

Kaitlin Campbell – 3^rd – first alternate

Liz Power – 4^th – second alternate

Prose

Mehda Sharma – 1^st – qualified to states
Poetry

Liz Furiga – 3^rd – alternate to states

Humorous Interp

Catherine Zhang – 1^st – qualified to states
Jason Noh – 3^rd – first alternate

Parliamentary Debate

Natalie Morrisey, Marisa DelSignore, Annie Sippel – 2^nd – qualified to states

Kara Morgan, Maria LaBella, Kaushik Gedela – 3^rd – alternate to states

Freshman - Sophomore Tournament

Lincoln Douglas
Anisha Reddy - 1st
Drew Bjorklund - 6th in LD
Extemp
Dominic Moore - 4th
Original Oratory

Niki Krishna - 4th
Natalie Lewis - 7th

Harvard

Duo Interp
Katherine Zhou and Lily Zhang – 2^nd

Public Forum
Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang--Varsity Octafinalists

Jason Hu and Marisa DelSignore--JV Double-Octafinalists

Bethel Park

North Allegheny - 2nd in debate; 2nd overall

Extemporaneous Speaking

Abhi Mehra – 4^th

Connor Phillips – 6^th

Ashok Biju – Quarter-finalist

Original Oratory

Priya Tumuluru - Semifinalist

Pragna Sutrave - Quarterfinalist

Lincoln Douglas

John Yang – Quarter-finalist

Tim Makkar – Quarter-finalist

Christophe Combemale – Octa-finalist

Wesley Swanson – Octa-finalist

Surabhi Beriwal – Octa-finalist

Suyash Fulay – Octa-finalist

Tarek Maalouf – Octa-finalist
Parliamentary Debate
Kara Morgan, Wendy Jiang, Nadeera Sidique - 2^nd  
Maria LaBella, Annie Sippel, Cindy Lee – Semifinalist

Public Forum

Jenna Marinstein and Michael Becich - Semifinalists

Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang - Quarterfinalists

Steph Metzger and Chris Chang - Quarterfinalists

Hemanth Venkatesh and Brandon Raymond - Octafinalists

Michael Tai and Alan Chiang – Octafinalists
Taehyung Kwon and Haemin Jung - Octafinalists

Pittsburgh North

First in Debate; First Overall

Extemporaneous Speaking

Connor Phillips - 1^st  

Prose

Kaitlin Campbell- 1^st  

Humorous Interp

Catherine Zhang - 2^nd

Jason Noh - 5^th

Dramatic Interp

Liz Power - 4^th  

Rohan Bansal - 5^th

Duo Interp

Katherine Zhou / Lily Zhang - 1^st  

Linda Zheng / Natalie Dean - 5^th  

Lincoln Douglas

Tarek Maalouf - 4^th

Morgan Lennon - 5^th

Brecken Blackburn - 6^th

Wesley Swanson - 6^th   
Parliamentary Debate
Angie Yau, Maddie Lambert, Adia Augustin - 2^nd
Kara Morgan, Wendy Jiang, Nadeera Sidique - 3^rd
Public Forum
Steph Metzger and Chris Chang - 1^st

Jenna Marinstein and Michael Becich - 6^th

Pine Richland
First in speech; First in debate; First overall

Extemporaneous Speaking

Abhi Mehra - 2^nd

Perry Chang - 6^th

Original Oratory

Priya Tumuluru - 2^nd

Pragna Sutrave - 4^th

Lincoln Douglas

Drew Bjorklund – 2^nd

John Yang – 3^rd

Juliana Bachinski – 4^th

Christophe Combemale – 5^th

Wesley Swanson – 6^th

Pine Richland
Derek Wang and Harishwer Balasubramani - 1^st

MIchael Tai and Alan Chiang - 2^nd

Jenna Marinstein and Michael Becich - 3^rd
North Allegheny

Lincoln Douglas Debate

Morgan Lennon - 4^th
Christophe Combermale - 6^th
Humorous Interp
Jason Noh - 5^th
Catherine Zhang - 6^th
Medha Sharma - 7^th
Duo Interp
Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou - 5^th
Extemporaneous Speaking
Connor Phillips 1^st - International

Abhi Mehra 3^rd - Domestic
Parliamentary Debate
Maria LaBella, Annie Sippel, Cindy Lee - 2^nd
Kaushik Gedela, Mia Luo, Catherine Liu - 3^rd  
Public Forum Debate
Jenna Marinstein and Michael Becich - 1^st

Michael Tai and Alan Chiang - 2^nd

Anis Adnani and Timmy Makkar - 2^nd

Steph Metzger and Chris Chang - 6^th

Pitt

Lincoln Douglas Debate

Wesley Swanson - 2^nd
Morgan Lennon - 3^rd
John Yang - 4^th
Dramatic Interp
Kaitlin Campbell - 1^st – tied
Humorous Interp
Medha Sharma - 4^th
Duo Interp

Linda Zheng and Natalie Dean - 4^th in Duo
Extemporaneous Speaking
Abhi Mehra - 1^st

Connor Phillips - 3^rd
Katherine Zhou - 4^th
Poetry
Elizabeth Furiga - 3^rd
Original Oratory

Pragna Sutrave – 1^st
Natalie Lewis – 3^rd
Parliamentary Debate
Maria LaBella, Annie Sippel, Cindy Lee - 1^st
Marisa DelSignore, Angie Yau, Natalie Morrissey - 2^nd
Kara Morgan, Wendy Jiang, Nadeera Sidique - 3rd
Kaushik Gedela, David Lee, Catherine Liu - 4^th
Public Forum
Jenna Marinstein and Michael Becich - 1^st

Derek Wang and Harishwer Balasubramani - 2^nd

Steph Metzger and Chris Chang - 3^rd

Hemanth Venkatesh and Brandon Raymond - 4^th

WE WON THE DRAMA FESTIVAL!!!

Quigley

Humorous Interp

Twesha Mitra - 1^st

Catherine Zhang - 2^nd

Medha Sharma - 5^th

Duo

Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou - 1^st

Dramatic Interp

Rohan Bansal - 5^th

4 of the top 5 teams in Public Forum Debate

Metzger / Chang

Marinstein / Becich

Hu / Lambert

Balasubramani / Tao

4 of the top 5 in Lincoln Douglas Debate

Tarek Maalouf

Surabhi Beriwal

Wesley Swanson

Christophe Combermale

Original Oratory

Priya Tumuluru--1^st

Pragna Sutrave--3^rd

Natalie Lewis--4^th

Extemporaneous Speaking

Connor Phillips

Abhi Mehra

Michael Helgerman

Congress

Three houses

Top five in their respective houses

Maria LaBella

Kara Morgan

Angie Yau

Kayla Badamo

Nadeera Sidique

Marisa Delsignore

Kaushik Gedela

Wake Forest

Quarter-finalists – PF
Anis Adnani and Timmy Makkar

Semi-finalist in extemp

Abhi Mehra

Keystone Oaks Freshman/Sophomore Tournament

Extemporaneous Speaking

3^rd – Connor Phillps

Public Forum

3^rd – Jenna Marinstein and Mike Becich

4^th – Taehyung Kwon and Hae Min Jung

5^th – Chris Chang and Stephanie Metzger

Duo Interpretation

Tied 1^st – Katherine Zhou and Lily Zhang

3^rd – Natalie Dean and Linda Zheng

Original Oratory

1^st – Pragna Sutrave

3^rd – Priya Tumulru

6^th – Natalie Lewis

Lincoln Douglas

3^rd – Wesley Swanson

4^th – Anisha Reddy

STATE TOURNAMENT

LIYAN FAN - STATE CHAMPION IN LINCOLN DOUGLAS

KATHERINE ZHOU AND LILY ZHANG - 2^ND PLACE IN DUO INTERP

SOPHIA TABORSKI – 5^TH PLACE IN INFORMATIVE SPEAKING

PRIYA TUMULURU – 6^TH PLACE IN INFORMATIVE SPEAKING

Radio Announcing

Quarter Finals – Marina Fang

Extemporaneous Speaking

Semi Finals – Rona Sun

Impromptu

Semi Finals – Abhi Mehra

Lincoln Douglas

Semi Finals – Richard Gayler

Congress

Finals - Kara Morgan

NFL DEBATE QUALS

Pittsburgh NFL District Champions!

Congratulations to Richard Bochicchio and Akshaya Arjunan

First Place in Public Forum Debate and qualifying to nationals in Dallas, Texas!!

Lincoln Douglas

3^rd - Timmy Makkar (1^st Alternate)

4^th – Richard Gayler (2^nd Alternate)

NFL SPEECH QUALS

Congratulations to Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou

First Place in Duo Interpretation and qualifying to nationals in Dallas, Texas!!

Congratulations to Marina Fang for moving up in Congress and qualifying to nationals in Dallas, Texas!!

International Extemp

3^rd - Connor Phillips (1^st Alternate)

Domestic Extemp

4^th - Abhi Mehra (2^nd Alternate)

5^th – Thomas Helgerman

6^th - Rona Sun

NCFL QUALS

Declamation

4^th- Maria Labella (qualifying to nationals)

5^th – Sravya Vishnubathla (qualifying to nationals)

Dramatic Interp

7^th- Medha Sharma (2^nd alternate)

Original Oratory

2^nd – Pragna Sutrave (qualifying to nationals)

3^rd – Priya Tumulru (qualifying to nationals)

Duo Interp

2^nd – Natalie Dean and Linda Zheng (qualifying to nationals)

Extemporaneous Speaking

2^nd – Connor Phillips (qualifying to nationals)

5^th – Abhi Mehra (qualifying to nationals)

Lincoln Douglas

3^rd – John Yang (qualifying to nationals)

5^th – Timmy Makkar (qualifying to nationals)

6^th – Rebecca Leech (1^st Alternate)

Public Forum

6^th – Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang (1^st alternate)

7^th – Kevin Zhu and Jenna Marinstein (2^nd alternate)

Policy Debate

6^th – Mike Becich and Derek Wang (1^st alternate)

7^th – David Lee and Kaushik Gedela (2^nd alternate)

STATE QUALS

District 2 Champions

North Allegheny

Dramatic Interpretation

2nd - Katilin Campbell (qualifying to states)

Duo Interpretation

2nd- Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou (qualifying to states)

3rd - Natalie Dean and Linda Zheng (1st alternate)

Extemporaneous Speaking

1st- Rona Sun (qualifying to states)

3rd - Marina Fang (1st alternate)

Informative Speaking

1st - Sophia Taborski (qualifying to states)

2nd - Priya Tumuluru (qualifying to states)

Public Forum

1st - Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang (qualifying to states)

3rd - Akshaya Arjunan and Richard Bochicchio (qualifying to states)

Lincoln Douglas

1st- Richard Gayler (qualifying to states)

2nd - Liyan Fan (qualifying to states)

Persuasive Speaking

1st - Pragna Sutrave (qualifying to states)

2nd - Natalie Lewis (qualifying to states)

Policy Debate

5^th - John Yang and Kevin Zhu

6^th - Adam Rest and Wesley Swanson

Harvard National Tournament

Varsity Public Forum

Octafinals (Top 16) - Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang

JV Public Forum

Quarterfinals (Top 8) - Stephanie Metzger and Chris Chang

Octafinals (Top 16) - Taehyung Kwon and Hae Min Jung

Extemporaneous Speaking

Octafinals -

Abhi Mehra

Rona Sun

Bethel Park Two Day Tournament

Sweeps

3rd Place - Overall

1st place – Debate

Extemporaneous Speaking

Semi Finalists
Marina Fang
Abhi Mehra
Rona Sun

Quarter Finalists
Brennan McGovern

Divya Tumuluru

Public Forum

1st place - Richard Bochicchio and Akshaya Arjunan

Semi Finalists

Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang

Octa Finalists
Adam Rest and Caroline Li
Jenna Marinstein and Michelle Xu
Max Blechman and Ashrith Balakumar
Stephanie Metzger and Chris Chang

Lincoln Douglas

Semi Finalists
Richard Gayler
Keyur Rao

Quarter Finalists
Emily Gibbs 
Christophe Combemale

Octa Finalist 
Rebecca Leech
Morgan Lennon

Dramatic Interp

Semi Finalist
Kaitlin Campbell

Humorous Interp

Quarter Finalist

Rohan Bansal

Duo Interp
3rd place - Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou

3rd place was cumulative! They won the final round!

Quarter Finalists 
Linda Zhang and Natalie Dean

Original Oratory
4th place - Sophia Taborski

Poetry

Quarter Finalist 
Elizabeth Furiga

Mercer

Overall Debate

1^st – North Allegheny

Public Forum

1^st - Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang

3^rd - Caroline Li and Adam Rest

Poetry

7^th - Elizabeth Furiga

Duo

4^th - Lily Zhang and Katherine Zhou

7^th - Linda Zheng and Natalie Dean

Humorous Interp

4^th - Rohan Bansal

7^th - Medha Sharma

US Extemp

3^rd - Connor Phillips

1^st - Abhi Mehra

International Extemp

6^th - Brennan McGovern

4^th - Rona Sun

Pine Richland

Overall Debate Sweeps

1^st- North Allegheny

Lincoln Douglas

1^st- Richard Gayler

3^rd - Liyan Fan

Public Forum

3^rd - Stephanie Metzger and Chris Chang

4^th - Jenna Marinstein and Kevin Zhu

Extemp

3^rd - Connor Phillips

7^th - Divya Tumuluru

Impromptu 

4^th - Rona Sun

University of Pittsburgh

Poetry

5^th - Elizabeth Furiga

HI

5^th - Irene Ounfrey

DI

2^nd - Kaitlin Campbell

Duo

1^st- Katherine Zhou and Lily Zhang

6^th - Natalie Dean and Linda Huang

Original Oratory

3^rd - PragnaSutrave

4^th - Sophia Taborski

6^th - Priya Tumuluru

Extemp

3^rd - ConnorPhilllips

4^th - Rona Sun

5^th - Marina Fang

6^th - Abhi Mehra

7^th - Thomas Helgerman

Public Forum

1^st - Akshaya Arjunan and Richard Bochicchio

4^th -Stephanie Metzger and Chris Chang

Lincoln Douglas

1^st - Sravya Vishnubhatla and Timmy Makkar

2^nd - Emily Gibbs

3^rd - Richard Gayler

Parliamentary Debate

1^st- Wendy Jiang, Nadeera Sidique, Kara Morgan

2^nd - David Lee, Maria Labella, Angie Yau

North Allegheny

Overall Sweeps

1st – North Allegheny

Debate Sweeps

1st – North Allegheny

Original Oratory

2^nd – Sophia Taborski

International Extemp

4^th – Rona Sun

6^th – Divya Tumuluru

United States Extemp

1^st- Connor Phillips

2^nd – Thomas Helgerman

3^rd – Abhi Mehra

Humorous Interp

6^th – Irene Onufrey

Public Forum

2^nd – Stephanie Metzger and Chris Chang

4^th – Akshaya Arjunan and Richard Bochicchio

5^th – Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang

Lincoln Douglas

1^st – Liyan Fan

3^rd – Richard Gayler

5^th – Rebecca Leech

6^th – Timmy Makkar

Oakland Catholic

Sweepstakes

1^st- North Allegheny

Congress 

House A 
Merit Speakers: Maria LaBella and Cindy Lee 
House B 
Merit speaker: Kaushik Gedela 
Presiding Officer: Daniel Bein 

Original Oratory 

2^nd -Pragna Sutrave
4^th - Priya Tumuluru

Extemp 

1^st - Connor Phillips

3^rd - Abhi Mehra
5^th- Marina Fang

Duo 
5^th -Natalie Dean/Linda Zheng

Dramatic Interp
3^rd -Kaitlin Campbell

Humorous Interp 
6^th -Rohan Bansal

George Mason University

Public Forum

Octafinals (Top 16) –Akshaya Arjunan and Richard Bochicchio

Double Octafinals (Top 32) –Kevin Zhang and Anis Adnani

LD

Double Octafinals (Top 32) - Timmy Makkar

Extemporaneous Speaking

Quarterfinals (Top 8) - Abhi Mehra

Quigley

Lincoln Douglas

Rebecca Leech 3-1

Anisha Reddy 3-1

Wesley Swanson 3-1

Suyash Fulay 4-0

Public Forum

Hemanth Venkatesh and Derek Coleman 3-1

Max Blechman and Ashrith Balakumar

Extemp

2^nd - Connor Phillips

5^th -Brennan McGovern

Prose

8^th - Kaitlin Campbell

Poetry

3^rd -Elizabeth Furiga

Original Oratory

5^th -Priya Tumuluru

Congress recognition

Akshaya Arjunan

Nadeera Sidique

Adam Dickter

David Lee

Maria LaBella

NFL Districts

Pittsburgh NFL District Champions!

PHSSL District Champions!

NFL Nationals

Congratulations to Eliana for advancing to Round 9 in Lincoln Douglas

Congratulations to Katie Owsiany, Richard Bochicchio, Kyle Zhu, Richard Gayler and Eliana Rabinowitz - For Qualifying to Nationals!!!

States

Marina Fang - 4th in Commentary

Richard Gayler - Top 4 in Lincoln Douglas

Annie Yan and Bonnie Yan - 6th in Duo Interp

Connie Yuan - 6th Impromptu

Lili Peng and Stephanie Metzger - Top 8 in Public Forum

Sophia Taborski - Semifinalist  in Persuasive Speaking

Katie Owsiany - Semifinalist  in Informative Speaking

CFL Qualifiers

LD

Richard Gayler

Timmy Makkar

Liyan Fan

2nd Alt - John Yang

PF

Lily Peng / Akshaya Arjunan

Anis Adnani / Kevin Zhang

Extemp

Marina Fang

Rona Sun

3rd alternate - Thomas Helgerman

DP

Irene Onufrey

Declamation

1st alternate - Wendy Jiang

2nd alternate - Priya Tumuluru

OO

Sabrina Lee

3rd alternate - Connor Phillips

Duo

Lily Zhang / Katherine Zhou

1st alternate - Max Blechman / Jenna Marinstein

2nd alternate - Sai Karwande / Kara Morgan

Policy

2nd alternate - Stephanie Metzger / Sravya Vishnubhatla

PHSSL Districts

District Champions

Policy

Lee and Blechman - 3rd - Alternate

LD

Liyan Fan - 2nd (Qualifying)
Richard Gayler - 1st (Qualifying)

PF

Lili Peng and Stephanie Metzger - 1st (Qualifying)
 

Persuasive

 Sophia Taborski - 1st (Qualifying)
Sabrina Lee - 2nd (Qualifying)
 

Informative

Katie Owsiany - 1st (Qualifying)
Shannon Lane - 4th

Duo

Annie Yan and Bonnie Yan  -1st (Qualifying)
Natalie Dean and Linda Zheng - 4th

DI

Kaitlyn Campbell - 3rd (Alternate)
Alex Grese - 2nd (Qualifying)

HI

Rohan Bansal - 4th
Irene Onufrey - 3rd (Alternate)

Commentary

Marina Fang - 3rd (Qualifying)

Extemp

Brennan McGovern - 6th
Connie Yuan - 4th  (Alternate)
 

North Hills

Speech Sweeps - 3^rd place

Debate Sweeps - 1^st place

Tournament Sweeps - 1^st place

Congress

Hae-Ming Jung- Merit Speaker

Extemp

Connie Yuan - 2^nd

OO

Katie Owsiany- 1st

Shannon Lane- 2nd

Duo

Yans - 2nd

PF

Akshaya/Zhu - 2^nd

LD

Suyash Fulay- 2nd

Timmy Makkar - 1^st

Bethel Park

Finalists

Katie Owsiany - OO - 2nd place

Parlie

Wendy Jiang, Amy Zhang, Nadeera Sidique

Quarter-finalists

Liyang Yu

Sophia Taborski

Sabrina Lee

Eliana Rabinowitz

Kaitlin Campbell

Morgan Lennon

Sravya Vishnubhatla

Connor Phillips

Lily Zhang

Elizabeth Furiga

Irene Onufrey

Morgan Shaber-Twedt

Mercer

Public Forum

Akshaya Arjunan and Lili Peng - 1st place

Domestic Extemp

Thomas Helgerman - 5th

Priya Tumuluru - 7th

International Extemp

Brennan McGovern - 5th

Rona Sun - 6th

Connie Yuan - 7th

Duo Interpretation

Annie and Bonnie Yan - 5th

Original Oratory

Katie Owsiany - 2nd

Shannon Lane - 4th

Sweepstakes

North Allegheny - 1st in Debate

Pine Richland

LD


Suyash Fulay - 4th

Timmy Makkar - 6th

Extemp
Abhi Mehra - 5th

Marina Fang - 6th

OO
Katie Owsiany - 5th

Duo
Yan and Yan - 1st

Debate Sweeps - 2nd
Combined Sweeps - 3rd

North Allegheny Tournament

Sweepstakes North Allegheny— 2nd place

Congress A

Outstanding Speaker—Griffin Caruso

Congress B

Merit Speakers—Kevin Xie

Lincoln Douglas Debate

1^st  - Richard Gayler

2^nd - Eliana Rabinowitz

3^rd - Sravya Vishnujbhatla

5^th - John Yang

6^th - Timmy Makkar

Parliamentary Debate

1^st - Kyle Zhu, Richard Bochicchio, Lili Peng

2^nd - Kara Morgan, Akshaya Arjunan, Nadeera Sidique

United States Extemp

4^th - Thomas Helgerman

International Extemporaneous Speaking

3^rd - Connie Yuan

4^th - Brennan McGovern

6^th - Marina Fang

Congress National Nominations for NFL

Senate - Rona Sun, Kyle Zhu, Akshaya Arjunan, Kevin Fu

House - Kevin Fu, Kevin Xie, Marina Fang, Eliana Rabinowitz, Kyle Zhu

North Catholic

Sweepstakes Award - 2nd place!!

Students Finishing in the top 5 (in no particular place)

Congress

Marina Fang

Richard Gayler

Liyan Fan

Connor Phillips

HI

Cathy Li

Irene Onufrey

DUO

Annie and Bonnie Yan

Prose

Lily Zhang

Impromptu

Keyur Rao

Connie Yuan

PF

Kyle Zhu and Richard Bochicchio

George Mason

Richard Bocchichio and Kyle Zhu

Ranked within the top 16 in the country!

Cal U

Dramatic Interp
1st place – Cathy Li

Duo Interp
1st place – Natalie Dean and Linda Zheng

Extemp
1st – Connie Yuan
2nd – Thomas Helgerman and Lily Zhang (tied)
4th – Rona Sun
5th – Brennan McGovern and Katherine Zhou (tied)
7th – Abhi Mehra
8th – Priya Tumuluru
9th – Marina Fang

Original Oratory
1st – Katie Owsiany
3rd – Shannon Lane

Prose
3rd – Sabrina Lee
4th – Morgan Shaber Twedt

LD
1st - Richard Gayler
2nd - Eliana Rabinowitz
3rd - Emily Gibbs
4th - John Yang
5th - Liyan Fan
6th - Kevin Xie

Parlie –
2nd - Taehyun Kwon, Haemin Jung, and Adam Dickter
3rd - Wendy Jiang, Nadeera Sidique, Kara Morgan

PF
1st - Peng/Arjunan
2nd - Zhu/Marinstein
4th - Iqbal/Majewski
5th - Caruso / Mehdi
10th - Metzger/Blechman

Br/ Rene Memorial Tournament - Central Catholic

Prose

Kaitlin Campbell - 5th place

Poetry

Elizabeth Furiga - 5th place

Humorous Interp

Cathy Li - 3rd place

Extemporaneous

Connie Yuan - 2nd place

Rona Sun - 3rd place

Katherine Zhou - 4th place

Brennan McGovern - 5th place

Original Oratory

Katie Owsiany - 3rd place

Duo Interp

Annie Yan and Bonnie Yan - 1st place

Linda Zheng and Natalie Dean - 2nd place

Lincoln Douglas

Timmy Makkar - 3rd place

Liyan Fan - 4th place

Suyash Fulay - 6th place

Public Forum

Lili Peng and Kevin Fu - 2nd place

Will Connor and Alan Dai - 5th place

Taehyung Kwon and Haemin Jung - 6th place

NFL National Tournament

Stacey Chen

First NFL champion from North Allegheny EVER!!!!!

Freshman / Sophomore

Kaitlin Campbell - 2nd in prose

Lauren Shideler - 1st in drama

Abhi Mehra - 3rd in extemp

Claire Weiss - 2nd in humorous

Rona Sun and Akshaya Arjunan - 3rd in PF

Chris Schwab - PO in congress

States

Katie Owsiany - 4th in informative

Andrew Bergman - 4th in impromptu

The Yan Sisters - 6th in duo

Emily Li - Semis in radio

NFL Districts

Doug Kulchar and Nate Keen - 1st in PF

Stacey Chen - 2nd in international

Eliana Rabinowitz - 2nd in LD

The Yan Sisters - 5th in policy debate

Congress

At the three preliminary congresses,

NA has national nominations for the following:

Doug Kulchar - senate

Nate Keen - senate

Jess Schwab - senate

Stacey Chen - senate

Andrew Bergman - house

Stacey Chen - house

Jessica Schwab - house

Mike Sinko - house

Kyle Zhu - house

NA State Reps

Duo - Annie and Bonnie

Extemp - Divya

Commentary - Connie

Informative - Katie

HI - Irene

Swing PF team - Lily (Congress) and Emily (radio)

Radio - Rona

Impromptu - Andrew

Congress - Kyle

Also doing well at districts - Jen Lee and Rona Sun (finalists in Persuasive); Bergman - 4th in extemp; Brennan McGovern - 4th in commentary; Liyang Yu and Morgan Shaber-Twedt (finalists in drama); Jenny Zeng - 4th in HI. Masters - 3rd in LD; and the teams of Arjunan/Bochicchio - 3rd in PF and Li / Peng - 4th in PF.  Also - good job to our policy kids for holding their own!!!

CFL National reps

PF - Bochicchio / Peng

LD - Gayler

Ex - Chen and Bergman

Duo - the Yan sisters

Also doing well at districts - McGovern in dec; Helgerman and Connie in extemp; Lauren Shideler (Drama).

Harvard

STACEY CHEN FIRST PLACE IN EXTEMP!

Doug Kulchar and Kyle Zhu - Top 32 in varsity pf.

Bryan Hogg and Richard Bochicchio broke to the top 64 in varsity pf.

In novice pf, Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang broke to the top 32.

Bethel Park

Claire Weiss - 2nd in prose. 

Andrew Bergman - 4th in US extemp

Divya Tumuluru - 4th in international extemp. 

Dave Masters - 3rd in LD

Richard Gayler - quarter finals in LD

Kevin Fu  / Jeff Daye were quarter-finalists in PF. 

Pine Richland

DI- Ben Suhrie 2nd
Extemp- Abhi Mehra 10th, Divya Tumuluru 9th, Brennan McGovern 8th, Thomas Helgerman 7th, Andrew Bergman 1st
LD- Liyan Fan 8th, Janny Liu 7th, Julie Wu 4th, Richard Gayler 2nd, Sophia Ciocca 1st
PF- Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang 7th, Akshaya Arjunan and Michael Sinko 5th, Richard Bochicchio and Bryan Hogg 4th, Kyle Ryan and Emily Li 3rd, Kevin Fu and Al Wang 2nd, Nate Keen and Doug Kulchar 1st
Jess Schwab got Merit in congress
 

GMU

Stacey won the exhibition round and came in 3rd overall.

Bethel Park

In Lincoln Douglas Debate - Richard Gayler (1st with a perfect record) and Liyan Fan (3rd)

In Public Forum Debate - Team of Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang (1st with a perfect record) and the team of Adam Majewski and Griffin Caruso (5th)

In Commentary - Connie Yuan (2nd), Brennan McGovern (3rd), and Lili Peng (5th).

In impromptu, Rona Sun (5th)

And in radio announcing, Katie Owsiany (5th)

Quigley

We took the top FOUR places in Public Forum debate. David Masters and Bryan Hogg Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang (2nd), Richard Bochicchio and Lili Peng (3rd), and  Doug Kulchar and Nate Keen (4th)

In extemp - Andrew Bergman and Connie Yuan took first and second. First time novice extemper Abby Stevenson got an award for being one of the top novice extempers.

In duo - Annie and Bonnie (the Yan sisters) - got 2nd in duo interp with 1-1-1-2.

In congress - new sophomore Akshaya Arjunan took top honors in congress. Christine Troy finished in the top 10.

Yale- Jack Grennan earned 4th in extemp, Stacey Chen made it to semis in extemp.

UPenn- Stacey Chen - 2nd in extemp

George Mason- Jack Grennan - semi's then 5th in the Round Robin.  Stacey Chen - 8th in the Round Robin.

St. Mark's- Jack Grennan - 5th in International extemp and made it to semis in US extemp

Glenbrooks- Naz El-Khatib and Claire Kairys were second in Public Forum debate.  Jack Grennan and Stacey Chen in extemp and Rachael Kauss made it to sems in congress

NA-

Sewickley Academy, the following were named Outstanding Speakers: Jack Grennan, Stacey Chen, Doug Kulchar, Naz El-Khatib, and Lauren Larocca.  The following came in second (Superior): Rachael Kauss, Nick Vukmer, Bryan Hogg, Aidan McDonagh, and Sophia Ciocca.  The following came in 3rd (Merit) - Claire Kairys, Brenna Thorpe, Brennan McGovern, and Bonnie Yan.

North Catholic:

Receiving congress awards - Brenna Thorpe, Naz El-Khatib, Jack Grennan, Stacey Chen, Jess Schwab

Baldwin

: 

Rona Sun /Lili Peng - Quarterfinalists in PF
Greg Vose / Claire Kairys -4th in PF
Doug Kulchar / Nate Keen -1st in PF
Jack Grennan -6th in Extemp
Stacey Chen -1st in Extemp
Gwyn Agnew -3rd in HI
Naz El-Khatib -Superior Speaker in Congress
Hadley Guiler -1st in LD

Pine Richland:

Nick/Vicky and Doug/Nate-Tied for 5th in PF
Rona/Lily-4th in PF
Greg/Claire-2nd in PF
Jack-3rd in Extemp
Stacey-1st in Extemp
Hadley-2nd in LD
Gwyn-1st in HI
Brenna-Superior Speaker
Naz-Outstanding Speaker
 

Mercer:

Yilu/Rachael-4th in PF
Nick/Doug-3rd in PF
Brenna/Greg-2nd in PF
Jack-1st in Domestic Extemp
Stacey-1st in Foreign Extemp
Naz-3rd in Domestic Extemp
 

North Hills:

Vicky/Greg - 2nd in PF

Naz/Claire - 3rd in PF

Hadley - 2nd in LD

Stacey - 1st in Extemp
 

Bethel Park:

Nick/Vicky - 1st in PF
Naz/Claire - Semi finalists in PF
Brenna/Greg - Quarter finalists in PF
Bryan/Dave - 8th in PF
Jack Grennan- 2nd in DX
Andrew Bergman - Finalist in DX
Anna Noel McKain-Quarterfinalist in OO
Hadley Guiler- Quarter Finalist in LD
Gwyn Agnew - 3rd in HI








 

Harvard:

Stacey Chen - 6th in extemp

Jack Grennan - semis in extemp

Greg Vose and Vicky Lopez - quarters of PF

Gwyn Agnew - octos in HI

Qualifying to states -

Greg Vose / Vicky Lopez, Claire Kairys / Naz El-Khttib - PF

Hadley Guiler - LD

Stacey Chen and Jack Grennan - Extemp

Doug Kulchar - Commentary

Gwyn Agnew - HI

Anna Noel McKain - Persuasive

Annie Yan / Bonnie Yan - Duo Interp

Yilu Zhang - Radio Announcing

Andrew Bergman - Impromptu

Brenna Thorpe - Congress

Qualifying to CFLs -

Nate Keen / Doug Kulchar and Greg Vose / Yilu Zhang - PF

Annie Yan / Bonnie Yan - Duo Interp

Bryan Hogg - Original Oratory

Sophia Ciocca / Janny Liu - LD

Stacey Chen - Extemp

Qualifying to NFLs

Doug Kulchar and Nate Keen

Jack Grennan and Naz El-Khatib - United States Extemp

Stacey Chen - International extemp

Vicky Lopez and Nick Vukmer - PF

Hadley Guiler - LD