Alpharetta wins BID TO TOC

Alpharetta’s team of Reuben Lack and Anushka Panday finished as Semi-Finalists at the Big Bronx tournament this past weekend. They earned a bid to the national Tournament of Champions — the top high school debate tournament in the country. This is Alpharetta’s second TOC-bid in school history.

Alpharetta BP reach Doubles at Wake Forest

Alpharetta BP (Tucker Boyce & Anushka Panday) were Double-Octafinalists at the Wake Forest Earlybird Tournament this past weekend. Anushka and Tucker were also in the top 40 speakers at the whole tournament – a very impressive feat.

In the Junior Varsity division, we lost out reigning championship (won that JV division the past two years), but Alpharetta KM (Naveena Karusala & Chris Moxley) did secure a Semi-Finalist position. Naveena personally won 7th Speaker.

All in all, a fantastic tournament for all.

Our Graduating Seniors

A list of our seniors leaving the team this year:

Chelsea Ashworth, 3 years, going to Auburn

Ricardo Saenz, 4 years, going to Georgia Tech

Vignesh Ramesh, 3 years, going to UGA

Riana Ilango, 4 years, going to UGA

David Lee, 4 years, going to UGA

We wish them the best of luck in all their future endeavors.

Woodward Field Report

Novice Division (1st Years)

Suraj Seghal/Naveena Karusala – Alpharetta SK

Chris Moxley/Matthew Simcoe – Alpharetta SM

Rachana Kotapalli/Taylor Johnson – Alpharetta JK

Saachi Hingorani/Mili Raina – Alpharetta HR

JV Division (2nd Years)

Tucker Boyce/James Pitman – Alpharetta BP

Samir V./Priyanka Juneja – Alpharetta VJ

Kal Thakore/Mahnvee Deo – Alpharetta DT

Ji-Yeon Hyun/Priyanka Ghosh – Alpharetta HG

Student Judges

Ricardo Saenz, Anushka Panday, David Lee, Reuben Lack, Vignesh Ramesh, Austin Duffield, Neil Chaudhary, Chelsea Ashworth

UGA Field Report

For the UGA Tournament, here are the Aretta teams attending —-

Varsity Policy Debate

Reuben Lack/Navya Nadimpalli – (Alpharetta LN)

Anushka Panday/Ricardo Saenz – (Alpharetta PS)

Novice Policy Debate

Saachi Hingorani/Mili Raina – (Alpharetta HR)

Matthew Simcoe/Chris Moxley – (Alpharetta MS)

Mr. Stanley Risdon will be chaperoning. He is the Alpharetta Latin teacher and debated in the ’60s.

AHS Tournament next Saturday

Next Saturday, February 19th, 2011, will be the Alpharetta Debate Tournament. Check out the main website for invite information.