If you don’t have plans for dinner tonight, please drop by Chipotle to support our speech and debate team!! If you go between 5-9 and tell them you’re there for the fundraiser, we get 25% of the sales! You can also order online with the attached code. Thanks for your support!
We have started an Instagram for our speech/debate team as well! If you want more frequent updates on our exploits and results, follow us here too!
This Twitter will likely become obsolete in the near future… so don’t miss your shot to keep up with us.
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We recently found out that we are going to win the prestigious Bruno E Jacob award for the top cumulative school at NSDA nationals. We will be recognized on stage tonight at the national awards ceremony, which will likely begin around 7 PM. Tune in here!
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Along with NSDA qualifiers in IEs, our nationally qualified policy debaters are competing at National Debate Coaches Association Nationals in Atlanta!
We had a great prelims, but unfortunately CH & CR lost their break rounds
CN are currently in the top 32 against St Marks (TX)!
Today the Jr Blues had a tremendous day at the Flint Hills NSDA qualifying tournament in IEs, which capped off all our qualifiers!
We won the team sweeps award in Congress, debate, speech & overall, & we qualified a record number of students (24 total) to NSDA nationals in June!
HI
Miriam Smith -🥈NQ
Will Boyd -🥉
Jaidan Loreman - 5th
INFO
Ophelia Lackey -🥈NQ
Xachary Browne - 6th
IX
Kennedy Wright -🥈NQ
Aryan Verma - 5th
Daniel Ginzburg - 6th
OO
Lizzy Sturgeon - 6th
POI
Xachary Browne -🥇NQ
Ariana Smith -🥈NQ
Abby Buckhalter - 4th
We also had students competing at Topeka High!
DX
Shri Chidambaranathan -🥇SQ
DUO
Lasya Rapolu/Jacqueline Tichenor -🥉
IMP
Rapolu -🥉
Tichenor - 6
INF
Chidambaranathan -🥇SQ
IX
Aryan Verma -🥇SQ
Rapolu -🥈SQ
Brandon Jeon - 4
Paxton Poe - 6
OO
Peher Gupta - 4
POE
Gupta -🥉
This weekend the Jr Blues stampeded through the BVN forensics tournament, even though only 4 kids attended!
DUO
Manaswini Koduru/Emma Smith - 5th
OO
Ariana Smith - 6th
POE
Abby Buckhalter - 1st SQ
Ariana Smith - 2nd SQ
POI
Ariana Smith - 5th
PRO
Abby Buckhalter - 2nd SQ
Today was the NSDA qualifier in Congress and the Jr Blues showed up in force! We had 9 in the top 20 and ended up qualifying 5 entries to nationals in June!
House
Campbell Hight🥇
Rebecca Reed🥈
Tarrence Byrd🥉
Shri Chidambaranathan 6th (going in policy)
Senate
Sophie Heinen🥇
On top of advancing to elim rounds, both CH and CN won speaker awards at Spartan Green and Gold!
Aditi Nimishakavi - Top Speaker!!!
Kavi Chidambaranathan - 2nd!!
Campbell Hight - 13th
Harris Chaudhry - 15th
CH is aff vs Westminster (GA)
CN is aff vs Olathe North
Our nationally qualified policy teams are competing in their final warm ups before nationals and they are debating well!
CH finished prelims 5-1
CN finished 4-2
CR finished 3-3 after forfeiting 2 rounds so that Jace could compete on our state Scholar’s Bowl team… what a guy!
At the Lansing tournament this weekend, the Jr Blues had 15 finalists, 5 new state qualifiers and won the overall team sweepstakes award!!
DX
Tarrence Byrd - 3rd
DI
Cambria Hall - 2nd SQ
Kenna Tran - 6th
Duo
Cambria Hall/Holly Sorrenti - 1st SQ
Will Boyd/Lizzy Sturgeon - 6th
This weekend the Jr Blues competed at Olathe South on Friday and Eudora on Saturday and left the weekend with quite a bit of hardware! We had 17 medalists in total, 5 new state qualifiers, and the overall team sweepstakes award at Eudora!!
At Olathe South
Lincoln Douglas
Ophelia Lackey - 5th
Novice House
Easton Holthaus - 5th
Public Forum
Campbell Hight/Emma Smith - 3rd
Rebecca Reed/Aryan Verma - 6th
Chaudhry/Hight broke as the 4th seed. They won both their quarters and semis debates on 3-0 decisions! The semis win secured them another bid to the Tournament of Champions in April!
In finals, we will debate Olathe North… but for now agreed to go home in time for the Chiefs!!
