Congratulations to Stuy Speech & Debate teams for their amazing results at both UPenn and Harvard competitions this spring!
Lincoln Douglas: At UPenn, senior Henry Ji and junior Daniel Zheng advanced to finals and CO-CHAMPIONED the tournament!! At Harvard, freshmen Evelyn Lifton, Kiren Sitwala, and Mufei Yu advanced to triple octo-finals, and senior Henry Ji advanced to partial quads.
Policy: At UPenn, Richard Wang placed 8th speaker, Atiya Firooz placed 2nd speaker, and Salioudian Barry placed 1st speaker. At Harvard, every single novice team advanced to the elimination rounds. Seoyeon Yu and Ken Wakida, as well as Serenity Dingwall and Ginwan Elfaki for advanced to the octofinals and Valerie Pook and Amy Shrestha, who made it to quarterfinals in Novice Policy. Ginwan Elfaki was 14th speaker. In the JV Division, Amrit Das and Aruna Vaithilingam came in 2ND place, making them Harvard Finalists. They also received 3th and 5th place speaker respectively.
Extemporaneous Speaking: At UPenn, all of the extempers who attended the University of Pennsylvania Invitational made it to elimination rounds: Aleksey Olkhovenko (4th), Eshaal Ubaid (6th), Kai Li (Semis), and Myles Vuong (Quarters). At Harvard, Eshaal Ubaid and Kai Li advanced to quarterfinals and Aleksey Olkhovenko advanced to octofinals.
Congress: At UPenn, juniors Jia Lin and Daniel Prizant and seniors William Tang and Olivia Woo advanced to the semi-finals. At Harvard, William Tang and sophomore Raymond Chen for advancing to the quarter-finals.
Public Forum: At UPenn, Brandon Tung & Annie Li and Helen Mancini & Astrid Harrington advanced to elimination. rounds. Helen and Astrid for received 8th and 12th place speakers respectively. At Harvard, freshmen Adrien Devery-Michaelson and Ethan Zheng advanced to novice quarterfinals, and Lander Bovenzi and Nara Kong also advanced into the elimination rounds. In JV, Eric Liu and Benjamin Yarden placed 4th and 12th speakers respectively. In Varsity PF, Brandon Tung and Annie Li, Amrisha Roy and Kikyo Makino-Siller, and Astrid Harrington and Helen Mancini advanced to elimination rounds.
Speech: At UPenn, Eli Lifton placed 4th in Original Oratory, and Audrey Hilger and Ethan Khosh placed 3rd and 5th in Humorous Interpretation respectively. At Harvard, Eli Lifton was an octofinalist in Original Oratory.
