Awards
2008-2009
Freshman / Sophomore
Kaitlin Campbell - 2nd in prose
Lauren Shideler - 1st in drama
Abhi Mehra - 3rd in extemp
Claire Weiss - 2nd in humorous
Rona Sun and Akshaya Arjunan - 3rd in PF
Chris Schwab - PO in congress
States
Katie Owsiany - 4th in informative
Andrew Bergman - 4th in impromptu
The Yan Sisters - 6th in duo
Emily Li - Semis in radio
NFL Districts
Doug Kulchar and Nate Keen - 1st in PF
Stacey Chen - 2nd in international
Eliana Rabinowitz - 2nd in LD
The Yan Sisters - 5th in policy debate
Congress
At the three preliminary congresses,
NA has national nominations for the following:
Doug Kulchar - senate
Nate Keen - senate
Jess Schwab - senate
Stacey Chen - senate
Andrew Bergman - house
Stacey Chen - house
Jessica Schwab - house
Mike Sinko - house
Kyle Zhu - house
NA State Reps
Duo - Annie and Bonnie
Extemp - Divya
Commentary - Connie
Informative - Katie
HI - Irene
Swing PF team - Lily (Congress) and Emily (radio)
Radio - Rona
Impromptu - Andrew
Congress - Kyle
Also doing well at districts - Jen Lee and Rona Sun (finalists in Persuasive); Bergman - 4th in extemp; Brennan McGovern - 4th in commentary; Liyang Yu and Morgan Shaber-Twedt (finalists in drama); Jenny Zeng - 4th in HI. Masters - 3rd in LD; and the teams of Arjunan/Bochicchio - 3rd in PF and Li / Peng - 4th in PF. Also - good job to our policy kids for holding their own!!!
CFL National reps
PF - Bochicchio / Peng
LD - Gayler
Ex - Chen and Bergman
Duo - the Yan sisters
Also doing well at districts - McGovern in dec; Helgerman and Connie in extemp; Lauren Shideler (Drama).
Harvard
STACEY CHEN FIRST PLACE IN EXTEMP!
Doug Kulchar and Kyle Zhu - Top 32 in varsity pf.
Bryan Hogg and Richard Bochicchio broke to the top 64 in varsity pf.
In novice pf, Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang broke to the top 32.
Bethel Park
Claire Weiss - 2nd in prose.
Andrew Bergman - 4th in US extemp
Divya Tumuluru - 4th in international extemp.
Dave Masters - 3rd in LD
Richard Gayler - quarter finals in LD
Kevin Fu / Jeff Daye were quarter-finalists in PF.
Pine Richland
DI- Ben Suhrie 2nd
Extemp- Abhi Mehra 10th, Divya Tumuluru 9th, Brennan McGovern 8th, Thomas
Helgerman 7th, Andrew Bergman 1st
LD- Liyan Fan 8th, Janny Liu 7th, Julie Wu 4th, Richard Gayler 2nd, Sophia
Ciocca 1st
PF- Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang 7th, Akshaya Arjunan and Michael Sinko 5th,
Richard Bochicchio and Bryan Hogg 4th, Kyle Ryan and Emily Li 3rd, Kevin Fu and
Al Wang 2nd, Nate Keen and Doug Kulchar 1st
Jess Schwab got Merit in congress
GMU
Stacey won the exhibition round and came in 3rd overall.
Bethel Park
In Lincoln Douglas Debate - Richard Gayler (1st with a perfect record) and Liyan Fan (3rd)
In Public Forum Debate - Team of Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang (1st with a perfect record) and the team of Adam Majewski and Griffin Caruso (5th)
In Commentary - Connie Yuan (2nd), Brennan McGovern (3rd), and Lili Peng (5th).
In impromptu, Rona Sun (5th)
And in radio announcing, Katie Owsiany (5th)
Quigley
We took the top FOUR places in Public Forum debate. David Masters and Bryan Hogg Anis Adnani and Kevin Zhang (2nd), Richard Bochicchio and Lili Peng (3rd), and Doug Kulchar and Nate Keen (4th)
In extemp - Andrew Bergman and Connie Yuan took first and second. First time novice extemper Abby Stevenson got an award for being one of the top novice extempers.
In duo - Annie and Bonnie (the Yan sisters) - got 2nd in duo interp with 1-1-1-2.
In congress - new sophomore Akshaya Arjunan took top honors in congress. Christine Troy finished in the top 10.