Greenhill Debate Students Qualify for State, National Competitions

The Greenhill Speech and Debate Team has concluded the regular season and is now engaged in “post-season” tournaments.

A school record 43 students have qualified for the Texas Forensic Association State Tournament on March 8-12 in Houston. Fourteen Greenhill Debate students have qualified for the National Speech and Debate Tournament on June 10-17 in Phoenix/Mesa, Arizona.
 
TEXAS FORENSIC ASSOCIATION STATE TOURNAMENT
In the TFA State tournament, public, homeschooled, and private schools compete against one another regardless of size or designation. Greenhill Debate students have won more state debate championships than any school in Texas.

The students listed below earned the right to compete based on success at local and regional invitationals throughout the year.

Nora Ahearn ’26
Michael Ahn ’26
Kaden Alibhai ’24
Lilliana Alston ’25
Abeera Amer ’24
Neha Bachu ’25
Karrington Barnett ’23
Saida Bidiwala ’25
Jonaki Bose ’25
Gautam Chamarthy ’25
Carcyn Coleman ’23
Reyna Diamond ’24
Vivaan Gupta ’24
Dhiya Hemchand ’26
Emily Hu ’24
Maya Jagsi ’26
Angela Kamgang ’24
Adam Kesselman ’24
Sarah Koshy ’26
Aaron Kuang ’26
Evie Kwie ’25
Seth Lee ’24
Sophia Li ’24
Rory Liu ’26
Sophia Mohamed ’23
Anika Mootha ’25
Varun Mukund ’25
Emma Nguyen ’24
Olivia Ortley-Gragg ’25
Ella Ou-Yang ’25
Zara Paul ’25
Madison Rojas ’23
Dibyadeep Saha ’24
Pooja Sanghvi ’24
Pranav Sreenivas ’25
Natalie Stachowiak ’24
Ivy Stitt ’23
Nikitha Thoduguli ’23
Aditi Vikram ’25
Jaden Watt ’23
Harris Xie ’25
Jeannette Yang ’24
Sherry Zhang ’25
 
Congratulations and good luck to all the students representing Greenhill at state this month.

NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE TOURNAMENT
The national tournament, sponsored by the National Speech and Debate Association, is the largest academic competition in the country. The students listed below qualified through the Lone Star District to compete.
 
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Ayne Park ’25
 
Policy Debate
Neha Bachu ’25
Madison Rojas ’23
 
Program Oral Interpretation
Karrington Barnett ’23
 
World Schools Debate
Abeera Amer ’24
Kaden Alibhai ’24
Reyna Diamond ’24
Emily Hu ’24
Angela Kamgang ’24
Sophia Li ’24
Pooja Sanghvi ’24
Natalie Stachowiak ’24
Jeannette Yang ’24
Sherry Zhang ’25
 
Congratulations and good luck to all the students representing Greenhill at nationals this summer!
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