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Westwood Debate Booster Club and United Way As
you may already know the Westwood Debate Booster club is running low on
funds for this year. Our students need funds to be successful in the
Debate program (e.g. for assistant coaches, etc.), so we need your
help. Through your company Foundation Matching Gifts program or United
Way, employees can donate to an eligible non-profit organization such
as the Westwood Debate Booster Club (TAX ID is 61-1531801). Employers
often provide a dollar for dollar match for these contributions. Please
consider this when you are planning any United Way donations at work.
For more information, you can contact Shyla Ravikumar . As always, the Westwood Booster Club really appreciates your constant support to help make our students successful.
Westwood Varsity Policy Debate Students Continue Winning Ways
Our Varsity Policy Debate students have continued their winning ways at recent tournaments. At the SF Austin High School Texas Forensics Association tournament on 11/6-7, the Eric Cervini/Nikhil Kumar team went 3-1 in preliminaries and earned 2nd place while the Varun Iyengar/Zofia Yellin team went 4-0 in preliminaries and earned 3rd place! The Jacob Loehr/Alex Munoz, Ashvin Bashyam/Alexis Kostun, and Anuj Kudva/Kapil Raghuraman teams all tied for 5th place. At
the Hays High School Texas Forensics Association tournament on
11/13-14, the Niki Nallapati/Zofia Yellin team went 4-1 and made it to
the quarterfinals. The Kayleigh Ferguson/Varun Iyengar, Evan Hearn/Ben Koons, and Anuj Kudva/Kapil Raghuraman teams also participated.At the Round Rock High School Texas Forensics Association tournament on 11/20-21, Westwood had an especially strong showing. The
Anuj Kudva/Kapil Raghuraman team took first place, the Alexis
Kostun/Nishu Metha and Austin Louden/Abhay Raina teams tied for 3rd place, and the Balam Budwai/Cristina Qiu team earned 5th place! In addition, Abe was 1st speaker and Austin was 2nd!
The Jackie Chen/Varun Koneru, Kayleigh Ferguson/Varun Iyengar, Jacob
Loehr/Alex Munoz, and Eric Cervini/Nikhil Kumar teams each went 3-1 in
the preliminaries but did not break into the quarterfinal elimination
rounds.Congratulations to our debaters, Mr. Martin, and the assistant coaches!
Westwood LD and Extemporaneous Speech/Debate Students Perform Admirably Our
Lincoln Douglas (LD) and Extemporaneous speech and debate students have
performed admirably at recent speech/debate tournaments. In Extemporaneous Speech competition at the SF Austin High School Texas Forensics Association tournament on 11/6-7, Rishi Goel earned second place in Foreign Extemporaneous competition while Priyanka Deshpande and Mark Jbeily took 3rd place in Foreign and Domestic Extemporaneous competition respectively!In Lincoln Douglas Debate at the Hays High School Texas Forensics Association tournament on 11/13-14, Jessica Jiang went 4-0 in the preliminaries and made it to the quarterfinals, earning second in overall speaker points. Shantanu
Banerjee and David Ememianov also participated in Lincoln Douglas
competition. In Public Forum Debate, the Satya Kantipudi/Daniel Li team
went 4-0 in the preliminaries and made it to the quarterfinals. Diyva Ramamoorthy earned 5th place in Foreign Extemporaneous speech competition. In
Lincoln Douglas Debate at the Round Rock High School Texas Forensics
Association tournament on 11/20-21, Jessica Jiang went 4-0 in the
preliminaries and took 3rd place while David Emelianov went 3-1 and earned 5th place. Leslie Kim also participated. In Foreigh Extemporaneous speech competition, Pia Sur earned 3rd place overall, while Rishi Goel earned 5th place. Priyanka Deshpande and Mark Jbeily also participated in Foreign and Domestic Extemporaneous speech competition respectively. Priyanka Deshpande and Pia Sur also participated as a team in Public Forum Debate.
Congratulations to our debaters, Mr. Martin, and the assistant coaches!
Westwood First Year Debaters Showing Outstanding Potential
Our
first year/novice debaters have been demonstrating outstanding
potential with their successful showing and winning ways in recent
debate tournaments. In Novice Policy Debate at the Austin
Area Novice Tournament on 10/31, the Preethi Balakrishnan/Shruti
Subramanian, Atharva Joshi/Michael Wyzykowski, and Russell Yang/Vamsi
Potluri teams were 3-0, the Priya Arunachalam/Mary Jiang, Jessica
Hwang/Justine Sheu, Aoyu Li/Marya Ishaq, and Sneha Shrothriya/Neethi
Nayak teams were 2-1, and the Dohun Kim/Rohan Reddy team was 1-2. In Novice Lincoln Douglas debate at this tournament, Urmilla Banerjee went 2-1. In Novice Policy Debate at the SF Austin High School Texas Forensics Association tournament on 11/6-7, the
Sanjai Bashyam/Victor Ng and Dohun Kim/Russell Yang teams tied for
first place, with Do Hun receiving the highest speaker points! In Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate, Urmilla Banerjee likewise earned first place! In Novice Policy Debate at the Hays High School Texas Forensics Association tournament on 11/13-14, the Vamsi Potluri/Russell Yang team went 5-0 and earned first place! The Abhishek Dendukuri/Steven Su team went 4-1 and the Zeyi Lin/Justin Waldo team went 3-2,.In Novice Policy Debate at the Round Rock High School Texas Forensics Association tournament on 11/20-21, the Priya Arunachalam/Michael Wyzykowski team went 4-0 in the preliminaries and took first place! The Justin Waldo/Russel Yang team went 3-1 in the preliminaries and earned 2nd place, while the Dohun Kim/Rohan Reddy team went 4-0 in the preliminaries and earned 5th place. The Preethi Balakrishnan/Shruti Subramanian, Kristi Chang/Esha Kacker, and Archana Jeeji/Jenny Lai teams also participated. In Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate, Urmilla Banerjee, Eric Liu, and Aparana Singh went 2-2 in the preliminaries.
Congratulations to our debaters, Mr. Martin, and the assistant coaches! |
