WaRu Debate

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. instagram.com/waru_debate?ig…

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! live.speechanddebate.org

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)!

USX Tarrence Byrd -🥇NQ Manaswini Koduru - 5th NQ Those qualifiers are in addition to Policy K Chidambaranathan/Nimishakavi S Chidambaranathan/Raines PFD H Chaudhry/Hight Reed/Verma Senate Heinen House Z Chaudhry

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

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!

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!

HI Morgan Boose - 5th INFO Ophelia Lackey - 4th Tarrence Byrd - 6th IX Lasya Rapolu - 5th POE Jaidan Loreman - 1st SQ Abby Buckhalter - 3rd SQ PRO Abby Buckhalter - 2nd SQ Jaidan Loreman - 4th PFD Joel Jijo/Garv Khurana - 2nd Daniel Ginzburg/Jack Savenko - 4th

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

At Eudora DX Rebecca Reed -🥈SQ DI Campbell Hight - 5 DUO Will Boyd/Lizzy Sturgeon - 5 HI Sturgeon - 5 Boyd - 6 IMP Daniel Ginzburg - 5 Ophelia Lackey - 6 INFO Lackey -🥇SQ IX Hight -🥇SQ Aryan Verma - 4 Zain Chaudhry - 5 OO Hight -🥇SQ POE Eli Loyd -🥈SQ

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

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!!

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!!

This weekend the Jr Blues’ nationally qualified entries were in action in our first warmup tournament for nationals! Harris Chaudhry/Campbell Hight and Shri Chidambaranathan/Jace Raines finished 4-2 in prelims in Iowa!! CR barely missed elimination rounds as the 9 seed.