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​RESULTS:

2023 CHSSA State Championships:

Overall:

• #1 In Debate Overall

Lincoln Douglas:

• 1st Place in LD Debate (Co-Champion - Anshuman Arun
• 1st Place in LD Debate (Co-Champion) - Sreekarthikeya Kankanala
• 5th Place in LD Debate (Quarterfinalist) - Neko Javaheri 
• 6th Place in LD Debate (Quarterfinalist) - Naveen Somani 
• 7th Place in LD Debate (Quarterfinalist) - Sanjana Samal
• 9th Place in LD Debate (Octofinalist) - Rishi Shirol
• Double Octofinalist in LD Debate - Aadhya Mamillapalli
• Double Octofinalist in LD Debate - Terry Ding 
• Double Octofinalist in LD Debate - Adele Ryono  
• Double Octofinalist in LD Debate - Aarav Kalra 
• Double Octofinalist in LD Debate - Shivansh Sathya
• Double Octofinalist in LD Debate - Connor Idemoto  
• Double Octofinalist in LD Debate - Christopher Shin 

SPAR Debate:

• 3rd Place (Finalist) - SPAR - Sameera Suria - 
• 5th Place (Finalist) - SPAR - Terry Ding
• 7th Place (Finalist) - SPAR - Naveen Somani
• Semifinalist - SPAR - Abhinav Iyer -
• Semifinalist - SPAR - Arnav Yadav - 
• Semifinalist - SPAR - Adithya Vishwanath - 

Impromptu:

• Semifinalist - Impromptu - Sreekarthikeya Kankanala
• Semifinalist - Impromptu - Aditya Gautam 
• Quarters - Impromptu - Neha Nalumasu 
• Quarters - Impromptu - Ananya Vines 
• Quarters - Impromptu - Aadhya Mamillapalli 
• Quarters - Impromptu - Ahaana Goel 
• Quarters - Impromptu - Camille Chien

Prepared Speech:

• Semifinalist - Oratorical Interpretation - Aditya Gautam 
• 5th Place - Original Oratory - Preksha Jain 

2023 National Championships:

Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• Yesh Rao: 1st Place (Champion): Gold Medalist: Undefeated!; 5th Speaker
• Aditya Anand: 2nd Place: Gold Medalist; 3rd Speaker
• Ben Han: Bronze Medalist; 7th Speaker

Middle School Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• Anshuman Arun - Gold Medalist - 1st Place (Champion)
• Shruti Gopalabhatla - Gold
• Ananya Vinesh - Bronze
• Christopher Shin - Bronze
• Abhinav Iyer - Bronze
• Saachi Kalra - Bronze
• Ayush Talapatra - Bronze
• Shivansh Sathya- 4th Speaker
• Anshuman Arun - 5th Speaker
• Christopher Shin - 7th Speaker
• Ananya Vinesh - 9th Speaker

Middle School Parliamentary Debate:

• Anshul Dandekar & Saaz Asudani - Gold Medalists - 1st Place - Champions
• Saaz Asudani - 7th Place Speaker

Middle School SPAR Debate:

• Neha Nalumasu - Silver
• Tara Sairam - Bronze 
• Aditi Konda
• Farah Thariq

High School SPAR Debate:

• Yesh Rao - Gold - 1st Place (Champion)

Elementary Congressional Debate:

• Aatmika Kaddevarmuth - Bronze
• Adhrutha Subramoniam - Bronze
• Cody Liu - Bronze
• Zachary White - Bronze
• Chelsea Luo - Bronze
• Agil Saravanan - Bronze

Elementary SPAR Debate:

• Juliana Blitzer - Gold Medalist - 1st Place (Champion)
• Khyati Sharma - Gold
• Daksh Vijh - Bronze
• Riha Kalluri - Bronze

Elementary Impromptu:

• Daksh Vijh - Bronze
• Khyati Sharma - Bronze
• Saiesha Varad - Bronze

Middle School Congressional Debate:

• Nila Rajkumar - Bronze
• Farah Thariq - Bronze

2023 Bay Area Middle School Championships:

Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• Terry Ding - 1st Place Speaker
• Viraja Shivhare - 2nd Place Speaker
• Sreekarthikeya Kankanala - Semifinalist
• Terry Ding - Semifinalist
• Viraja Shivhare- Quarterfinalist
• Aarav Kalra - Quarterfinalist
• Moukthika Veturi - Quarterfinalist
• Rishi Shirol - Quarterfinalist
• Ananya Vinesh - 7th Place Speaker
• Aarav Kalra - 9th Place Speaker
• Sreekarthikeya Kankanala - 10th Place Speaker

Impromptu Speaking:

• Sreekarthikeya Kankanala - Finalist (3rd Place)
• Rishi Shirol - Finalist (5th Place)
• Arnav Yadav - Finalist
• Katelyn Wan - Finalist
• Sameera Suria - Finalist

Original Oratory:

• Katelyn Wan - Finalist (5th Place)
• Preksha Jain - Finalist (6th Place)

2023 Dempsey Cronin Invitational Championships:

High School Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• Athen Debate Had 3 of the 4 Semifinalists! 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Place!
• 2nd Place (Finals); 3rd Place Speaker - Victor Lu 
• 3rd Place (Semifinalist) - Manya Saravu 
• 4th Place (Semifinalist); 2nd Place Speaker - Aditya Anand

Middle School Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• Athens Debate Closed Out Finals (1st and 2nd Place)! Athens Had 12 of the 16 Elimination Participants! 
• Vishnu Rao - 1st Place (Co-Champion); 4th Place Speaker
• Christopher Shin - 2nd Place (Co-Champion)
• Terry Ding - 3rd Place (Semifinals); 1st Place Speaker
• Sreekarthikeya Kankanala - 5th Place (Quarterfinals)
• Shivansh Sathya - 6th Place (Quarterfinals)
• Vedh Rao - 7th Place (Quarterfinals)
• Neha Nalumasu - 8th Place (Quarterfinals); 5th Place Speaker
• Naveen Somani - 9th Place (Octofinals)
• Keji Yuan- 10th Place (Octofinals)
• Adele Ryono - 11th Place(Octofinals)
• Saachi Kalra - 12th Place (Octofinals); 10th Place Speaker
• Aadhya Mamillapalli - 13th Place (Octofinals); 2nd Place Speaker
• Robert Hong - 6th Place Speaker
• Sanjana Samal - 9th Place Speaker

Elementary SPAR Debate:

• Juliana Blitzer - 1st Place
• Adhrutha Subramoniam - 2nd Place
• Saiesha Varad - 3rd Place
• Winston Huang - 5th Place
• Alyssa Wong - 6th Place
• Kyle Zhuang - 7th Place
• Dhruva Amarnath - 8th Place
• Jayin Mohan - Finalist
• Jocelyn Castillo - Finalist
• Emi Constandache - Finalist
• Isha Srivastava - Finalist
• Manasth Saxena - Finalist
• Ethan Zhu - Finalist

2023 Bay Area Championships:

• #1 in Debate

Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• Athens Debate had 6 of the 8 elimination round qualifiers! 2 of the Top 3 Speakers!
• 1st Place Speaker: Terry Ding
• 1st Seed: Sreekarthikeya Kankanala
• 2nd Place Speaker:  Viraja Shivhare
• 2nd Seed: Terry Ding
• 3rd Seed: Viraja Shivhare
• Semifinalist: Terry Ding
• Semifinalist: Sreekarthikeya Kankanala
• Quarterfinals: Rishi Shirol
• Quarterfinals: Viraja Shivhare
• Quarterfinals:  Moukthika Veturi
• Quarterfinals: Aarav Kalra

Oratory:

• Finalsit (5th):  Katelyn Wan
• Finalsit (6th):  Preksha Jain

Impromptu:

• Finalsit (3rd):  Sreekarthikeya Kankanala
• Finalsit (6th):  Rishi Shirol
• Finalist:   Sameera Suria
• Finalist:   Arnav Yadav
• Finalist:   Katelyn Wan

2023 Philhistorian Championships:


Middle School Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• 1st Place Speaker: Aryav Kaushik
• 2nd Place (Semifinalist): Aryav Kaushik
• 2nd Place Speaker: Viraja Shivhare
• 2nd Seed: Mason Sterling
• 5th Place Speaker: Moukthika Veturi
• 6th Place Speaker: Shruti Gopalabhatla
• Quarterfinals: Viraja Shivhare
• Quarterfinals: Sreekarthikeya Kankanala; 8th Place Speaker
• Quarterfinals: Christopher Shin; 7th Place Speaker
• Quarterfinals: Mason Sterling
• Quarterfinals: Shruti Gopalabhatla
• Octofinals: Anika Upadhyay
• Octofinals: Naveen Somani; Undefeated in prelims!
• Octofinals: Terry Ding
• Octofinals: Amara David
• Octofinals: Anshuman Arun
• Octofinals: Aadhya Mamillapalli
• Octofinals: Aarav Kalra

High School Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• 3rd Place (Semifinalist): Manya Saravu
• 5th Place (Quarterfinalist): Victor Lu

Elementary SPAR Debate:

• 2nd Place: Juliana Blitzer
• 3rd Place: Kyle Zhuang
• 4th Place: Gavin Luo
• 5th Place: Nikhil Sabnis
• 6th Place: Daksh Vijh
• 7th Place: Vinayak Shukla
• 8th Place: Lila Vasudev
• 9th Place: Mira Kamath
• Finalist: Mark Govorkov
• Finalist: Adil Aly
• Finalist: Yule Pan
• Finalist: Agil Saravanan
• Finalist: Edmond Yuan
• Finalist: Adhrutha Subramoniam

Middle School SPAR Debate:

• 1st Place: Nish Baleri
• 6th Place: Ahaana Goel
• 7th Place: Rishith Nambiar
• 8th Place: Shivansh Sathya
• 9th Place: Simran Thakur
• Finalist: Nila Rajkumar
• Finalist: Nathan Sanocki
• Finalist: Prateeksha Patel
• Finalist: Krish Kabra
• Finalist: Mishika Kumar

Middle School Impromptu:

• 3rd Place: Pranav Sethuraman
• 5th Place: Sreekarthikeya Kankanala
• 6th Place:  Aadhya Mamillapalli
• 6th Seed: Chrisel Roche

Elementary Impromptu:

• 2nd Place: Kyle Zhuang
• 3rd Place: Daksh Vijh
• 5th Place: Winston Huang
• 6th Place: Achyuth Krishnan
• 7th Place: Vinayak Shukla
• 8th Place: Juliana Blitzer
• 9th Place: Adhrutha Subramoniam
• 10th Place: Agil Saravanan
• Finalist: Aatmika Kaddevarmuth
• Finalist: Mark Govorkov
• Finalist: Mira Kamath
• Finalist: Aarti Golecha

Elementary Congressional Debate:

• 1st Place: Kyle Zhuang 
• 4th Place: Vikranth Anand 
• 5th Place: Zachary White 
• 6th Place: Arjun Sivaprakash 
• 7th Place: Agil Saravanan 
• 8th Place: Keeran Sundqvist 
• 9th Place: Shreya Verma 
• 10th Place: Kate Lowe 
• Finalist: Adhrutha Subramoniam 
• Finalist: Polina Sverlikava

Middle School Congressional Debate:

• 7th Place: Sean Yin

High School Congressional Debate:

• 1st Place: Sweekriti Ratnam

Declamation:

• 1st Place: Ananya Aneesh

2023 SVUDL Ryan Mills Invitational:

Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• 1st Place: Timothy Lin
• Octafinals: Manya Saravu
• Octafinals: Sophia Zhang

Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• 2nd Place: Abhinav Iyer
• 3rd Seed: Sreekarthikeya Kankanala
• 4th Seed: Viraja Shivhare
• Quarterfinals: Viraja Shivhare
• Octafinals: Sameera Suria
• Octafinals: Maxxy Frey
• Octafinals: Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

2023 Evergreen Invitational:

Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• 1st Place: Timothy Lin
• 2nd Place: Aditya Anand
• 3rd Place: Victor Lou
• 5th Place: Pritam Misri

Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• 2nd Place: Abhinav Iyer
• 3rd Seed: Sreekarthikeya Kankanala
• 4th Seed: Viraja Shivhare
• Quarterfinals: Viraja Shivhare
• Octafinals: Sameera Suria
• Octafinals: Maxxy Frey
• Octafinals: Sreekarthikeya Kankanala

2023 La Reina Invitational:

JV Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• 2nd Place Speaker: Vishnu Rao
• Semifinalist: Terry Ding
• Semifinalist: Naveen Somani
• 5th Place Speaker: Terry Ding
• 10th Place Speaker: Naveen Somani

JV SPAR Debate:

• 1st Place: Sameera Suria 
• 2nd Place: Nathan Sanocki
• 3rd Place: Nish Baleri 
• 4th Place: Terry Ding 
• 5th Place: Arnav Krishnan 
• 6th Place: Arshiya Kumar
• 7th Place: Katelyn Wan

Elementary SPAR Debate:

• 1st Place: Juliana Blitzer
• 2nd Place: Vinayak Shukla 
• 3rd Place: Saiesha Varad 
• 6th Place: Cody Liu

Elementary Impromptu:

• 1st Place: Adhrutha Subramoniam
• 2nd Place:  Juliana Blitzer
• 3rd Place: Khyati Sharma
• 4th Place: Saiesha Varad
• 5th Place: Kate Lowe
• 6th Place: Achyuth Krishnan
• 7th Place: Vivaan Soni

JV Impromptu:

• 1st Place: Aadhya Mamillapalli
• 2nd Place:  Sonakshi Rajput
• 3rd Place: Sameera Suria
• 4th Place: Vaishnavi Kamulaiahgari
• 6th Place: Ahaana Goel
• 7th Place: Katelyn Wan

Middle School Declamation:

• 1st Place: ​​Lucas Su
• 3rd Place: Elizabeth Paik

JV Platform:

• 3rd Place: Katelyn Wan

2023 Stanford Invitational:

Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• 1st Place (Champion): Nidhi Riju

CA Lincoln Douglas Debate:

• Semifinalist: Kedaar Rentachintala

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Big Team Wins (Tournaments Where Athens As A Whole Did Exceedingly Well):

• SCJFL (October 23rd): Athens had 50% of the semifinalists pool and 50% of the finals pool! In LD Debate, Athens Debate took 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th, 9th, 13th, and 14th. That's: 2 of the Top 3; 3 of the Top 5; 5 of Top 9; and 7 of the top 14! 5 of the Top 10 Speaker Awards!
• Stephen Stewart Invitational: Athens had 2 of the Top 5 in Novice LD; 3 of the Top 10.
• Stratford Invitational: Athens Debate has 7 of the 10 Undefeated Debaters at the Tournament! Athens Debate has 6 of the 11 Undefeated Debaters at the Tournament! In Impromptu, Athens had 50% of the Top 10 placings in Impromptu (1st, 4th, 5th, 8th, 10th). 
• Santa Clara University: We had an astonishing 10 students qualify for eliminations in Novice LD; 7 in Varsity LD; 1 in Varsity Parli, and both of our 2 Congress debaters make it to Finals. This is by far one of the biggest and hardest tournaments of the year as well. 
• Hyde Invitational: Athens won 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Place in Elementary SPAR, Elementary Impromptu, Middle School SPAR, and Middle School Debate. Athens Debate closed out every single event we entered. 
• The La Reina Invitational: 1st Place in Varsity LD; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th in MS SPAR Debate, Elementary SPAR Debate, Elementary Impromptu, 1st Place in Oratorical Interpretation

Title and Championship Wins:

• La Reina Invitational: Kedaar Rentachintala - 1st Place - Varsity LD Debate (Co-Champion)
• La Reina Invitational: Anish Awasthi - 1st Place - Varsity LD Debate (Co-Champion)
• La Reina Invitational: Sean Yin - 1st Place Elementary Impromptu (Champion)
• La Reina Invitational: Anika Phadnis - 1st Place Oratorical Interpretation / Declamation (Champion)
• La Reina Invitational: Ahaana Goel - 1st Place Elementary SPAR Debate (Champion)
• La Reina Invitational: Anshul Dandekar - 1st Place in MS SPAR Debate (Champion)
• Stephen Stewart Invitational: William Wang - 1st Place, Undefeated (Champion)
• SCJFL Invitational - Neko Javaheri 1st Place LD Debate (6-0) (Champion)
• SCJFL Invitational - William Wang 1st Place Speaker in LD Debate (6-0) (Champion)
• Stratford Invitational: Aayushi Kothari for placing 1st Place in Impromptu! (Champion)
• Hyde Invitational: Mishka Chobe - 1st Place Elementary Impromptu (Champion)
• Hyde Invitational: Mira Kamath - 1st Place Elementary SPAR Debate (Champion)
• Hyde Invitational: William Wang - 1st Place in Middle School Debate (Champion)
• Hyde Invitational: Ayush Iyengar - 1st Place Middle School SPAR Debate (Champion)
• Hyde Invitational: Anvita Koneru - 1st Place Speaker in LD Debate (Champion)

Stephen Stewart Invitational:

• Athens had 2 of the top 5 in Novice LD; 3 of the Top 10)
• William Wang - 1st Place, Undefeated (Champion)
• Jonathan Cheng -  4th Place 
• Drishti Sethia - Octofinals in Varsity LD Debate; 3rd Place Varsity Impromptu
• Harish Longshanker - 9th Place

Bargain Belt Invitational:

• Rishi Shirol - 3rd Place Impromptu Speaking
• Xiangtuo Cui - Semifinals in LD Debate - 3rdPlace
• Tobias Hou - Quarterfinals in LD Debate
• Kedar Haldar - Octofinals in LD Debate
• Aarnav Agrawal - Octofinals in LD Debate
• Rishi Shirol -  Double Octofinals in LD Debate
• Neko Javaheri -  Double Octofinals in LD Debate
• William Wang -  Double Octofinals in LD Debate
• Jason Kuo -  Double Octofinals in LD Debate
• Vivaan Chopra - 6th Place Congress (Finals)
• Veer Bhandari - 10th Place Congress (Finals)

SCJFL - October 23rd

• Athens had 50% of the semifinalists pool and 50% of the finals pool! 
• In LD Debate, Athens Debate took 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th, 9th, 13th, and 14th. That's: 2 of the Top 3; 3 of the Top 5; 5 of top 9; and 7 of the top 14! 5 of the top 10 Speaker Awards! 
• Neko Javaheri 1st Place LD Debate (6-0); 5th Speaker 
• William Wang 2nd Place LD Debate; 1st Place Speaker (5-1) 
• Om Modi 5th Place (5-1) in LD Debate; 7th Speaker 
• Nidhi Riju 8th Place (4-2) in LD Debate; 3rd Speaker 
• Sweekriti Ratnam 9th Place (4-2) in LD Debate; 8th Speaker 
• Angelina Antony 13th Place in LD Debate 
• Sanjana Samal 14th Place in LD Debate 
• Apollo Grimes 5th Place (Finalist) in Congressional Debate! 

Stratford Invitational

• Athens Debate has 7 of the 10 Undefeated Debaters at the Tournament! Athens Debate has 6 of the 11 Undefeated Debaters at the Tournament!
• Aarnav Agrawal 4-0 (Undefeated)

• James Pak 4-0 (Undefeated)
• Neko Javaheri 4-0 (Undefeated)
• Om Modi 4-0 (Undefeated)
• Toby 4-0 (Undefeated)
• Viraja Shivhare 4-0 (Undefeated)
• William Wang 4-0 (Undefeated)
• Angelina antony 3-1!
• Aarini Chadha - 3-1!
• Anshul Dandekar  3-1!
• Anvita Koneru  3-1!
• Jonathan Cheng  3-1!
• Amrutha Pentakota 3-1!
• Aayushi Kothari for placing 1st Place in Impromptu! Champion!!!!! 
• Siddhanth Ramachandran for placing 4th Place in Impromptu! 
• Kirthana Warrier for placing 5th Place in Impromptu! 
• Keira Lackey for placing 8th Place in Impromptu! 
• Vivaan Chopra for placing 10th Place in Impromptu!
• Great to see Athens with 50% of the Top 10 placings in Impromptu!

Santa Clara University's John Lewis Invitational

• We had an astonishing 10 students qualify for eliminations in Novice LD; 7 in Varsity LD; 1 in Varsity Parli, and both of our 2 Congress debaters make it to Finals.

Novice LD Debate:
(A whopping 10 Students Qualified to Eliminations!)

• Ryan Idemoto - Semifinals; (7th Speaker)
• Carl Smith - Octofinals (3rd Seed; 5th Speaker)
• Neko Jahaveri - Octofinals (5th Seed)
• Om Modi - Octofinals
• Xiangtuo Cui - Doubles
• Everett Gross - Doubles
• Anshuman Arun - Doubles
• Tarun Ramakrishnan - Doubles
• Aarini Chadha - Doubles
• Sana Deolekar - Doubles
• Emily Meng - Congrats on a qualifying record for eliminations, but just missed elimination rounds by .90 of a speaker point (33rd seed).
• Jason Kuo - Congrats on a qualifying record for eliminatons, but just missed elimination rounds by a few speaker points (34th seed).

Varsity LD Debate:
(A whopping 7 Students Qualified to Eliminations!)

• Grayce Marlowe-Alpers - Semifinals; (2nd Speaker; 8th Seed)
• Vinayak Sarkar - Octofinals (9th Seed)
• Mira Haldar- Octofinals (7th Seed)
• Anik Chobe - Octofinals (4th Seed)
• Drishti Sethia - Doubles (3rd Speaker; 2nd Seed)
• Navya Rawal - Doubles
• Shyla Awathi - Doubles

Novice Congress:
(2 of the 2 Congress Debaters We Took Made it to Finals!)

• Vivaan Chopra - 4th Place (Finals)
• Apollo Grimes - 6th Place (Finals)

Varsity Parliamentary Debate:

• Aidan Hollinger-Miles - Octofinals

Varsity Impromptu Speaking:

• Drishti Sethia - 4th Place (Finals)

La Costa Canyon Winter Classic:

• Kedaar Rentachintala - 2nd Place in Varsity LD Debate
• Drishti Sethia - 3rd Place in Varsity LD Debate
• Zaee Shah - 5th Place in Varsity LD Debate
• Drishti Sethia - Semifinals in Varsity Impromptu

College Preparatory School Invitational:

• Tobias Hou - 3rd Place (Semifinals in Novice LD Debate); 7th Speaker
• Ronith Vinod Chikkaballapur - Quarterfinals in Varsity LD Debate
• Yesh Rao - 4th Seed; 3rd Speaker; Octofinals - TOC LD

The Hyde Invitational:

• Mishka Chobe - 1st Place Elementary Impromptu
• Vinayak Shukla - 2nd Place Elementary Impromptu
• Rishan Peer - 3rd Place Elementary Impromptu
• Ridhi Koppula - 4th Place Elementary Impromptu
• Ahaana Goel - 5th Place Elementary Impromptu
• Mira Kamath - 6th Place Elementary Impromptu
• Mira Kamath - 1st Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Katelyn Wan - 2nd Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Danya Arun - 3rd Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Ahaana Goel - 4th Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Vinayak Shukla - 5th Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Ridhi Koppula - 6th Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• William Wang - 1st Place in Middle School LD Debate
• Nidhi Riju - 2nd Place in Middle School LD Debate; 2nd Place Speaker
• Angelina Antony - 3rd Place in Middle School LDDebate; 3rd Place Speaker
• Viraja Shivhare - 4th Place in Middle School LD Debate; 4th Place Speaker
• Rishi Shirol - 5th Place in Middle School LD Debate; 6th Place Speaker
• Anvita Koneru - 6th Place in Middle School LD Debate; 1st Place Speaker 
• Milan Duong-Gordley - 7th Place in Middle School LD Debate; 8th Place Speaker
• Kedar Haldar - 8th Place in Middle School LD Debate; 5th Place Speaker
• Shivansh Sathya - 9th Place Speaker
• Apollo Grimes - 10th Place Speaker
• Ayush Iyengar - 1st Place Middle School SPAR Debate
• Aneesh Mora  - 2nd Place Middle School SPAR Debate
• Aadhya Mamillapalli  - 3rd Place Middle School SPAR Debate
• Vivaan Rawal  - 4th Place Middle School SPAR Debate
• Anuj Aggarwal  - 5th Place Middle School SPAR Debate
• Anika Phadnis  - 6th Place Middle School SPAR Debate
• Aadhya Mamillapalli - 2nd Place Middle School Impromptu
• Carl Smith - 7th Place Middle School Impromptu

The La Reina Invitational:

• Kedaar Rentachintala - 1st Place - Varsity LD Debate (Co-Champion)
• Anish Awasthi - 1st Place - Varsity LD Debate (Co-Champion)
• Vinayak Sarkar - 5th Place - Varsity LD Debate
• Jonathon Cheng - 8th Place - Varsity LD Debate
• Sean Yin - 1st Place Elementary Impromptu
• Ahaana Goel - 2nd Place Elementary Impromptu
• Atharv Shanbhag - 3rd Place Elementary Impromptu
• Mishka Chobe - 4th Place Elementary Impromptu
• Ahana Senthilvel - 5th Place Elementary Impromptu
• Arshiya Kumar - 6th Place Elementary Impromptu
• Ahaana Goel - 1st Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Sabrina Zaltzman - 2nd Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Mishka Chobe - 3rd Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Ahana Senthilvel - 4th Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Theo Verhaverbeke - 5th Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Atharv Shanbhag - 6th Place Elementary SPAR Debate
• Veer Chowdhary - 2nd Place Middle School Congressional Debate
• Anika Phadnis - 1st Place Oratorical Interpretation / Declamation
• Ryan Idemoto- 3rd Place - Novice LD Debate
• Aarini Chadha - 3rd Place Middle School Impromptu
• Grant Wang - 6th Place in MS SPAR Debate
• Anshul Dandekar - 1st Place in MS SPAR Debate
• Ayush Iyengar - 2nd Place in MS SPAR Debate
• Om Modi - 3rd Place in MS SPAR Debate
• Ryan Chow - 4th Place in MS SPAR Debate
• Aarnav Agrawal - 5th Place in MS SPAR Debate
• Grant Wang - 6th Place in MS SPAR Debate
• Aarini Chadha - 7th Place in MS SPAR Debate
• Milan Duong-Gordley - 8th Place in MS SPAR Debate

SCJFL - December 11th:

• Aadhya Mamillapalli - 7th Open Impromptu (Finals)
• Aarini Chadha - 8th Open Impromptu (Finals)
• Ayush Iyengar - 2nd Place Open SPAR Debate (Finals)
• Aarini Chadha - 9th Place Open Impromptu (Finals)
• Siddhanth Ramachandran - 5th Place SPAR Debate (Finals)
• Aayush Dinker - Finals in SPAR Debate
• Rohan George - Finals in SPAR Debate
• Saanvi Bhartiya - Finals in SPAR Debate
• Ryan Chow - Finals in SPAR Debate
• Grant Wang - Finals in SPAR Debate

SCJFL - December 4th

• Katelyn Wan - 2nd (Finals) - Elementary SPAR Debate
• Saiesha Varad - 3rd (Finals) - Elementary SPAR Debate
• Siddharth Suresh - 8th (Finals) - Elementary SPAR Debate
• Ahaana Goel - 9th (Finals) - Elementary SPAR Debate
• Vasu Vats - 10th (Finals) - Elementary SPAR Debate
• Atharv Shanbhag - 13th (Finals) - Elementary SPAR Debate
• Akshaj Khanduri - 4th Place (FInals) - Open SPAR Debate
• Aathik Sivasubramaniam - Finals Impromptu Speaking
• Ahaana Goel - Finals Impromptu Speaking
• Akshaj Khanduri - Finals Impromptu Speaking
• Mira Kamath - Finals Impromptu Speaking
• Mishka Chobe - Finals Impromptu Speaking
• Vasu Vats - Finals Impromptu Speaking
• Vibhu Vats - Finals Impromptu Speaking
• Sweekriti Ratnam - 2nd Place Congressional Debate
• Saaz Asudani - Finals Congressional Debate
• Vishresh Deepak - Finals Congressioanl Debate
• Veer Bhandari - Finals Congressional Debate
• Neko Javaheri - 3rd Place - LD Debate; 2nd Place Speaker
• Rishi Shirol - Semifinals in LD Debate
• Kedar Haldar - 3rd Place LD Speaker
• Om Modi - 4th Place LD Speaker
• Vivaan Rawal - 8th Place LD Speaker

SCJFL - November 6th:

• Anay Mehta - Finals SPAR Debate
• Shreyan Sriram - Finals SPAR Debate
• Akshaj Khanduri - Finals Impromptu (4th Place)
• Sean Yin - Finals Impromptu (7th Place)
• Shreyan Sriram - Finals Impromptu
• Vinayak Shukla - Finals Impromptu

 

• California State Championships: 1st , 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21th, 22th, 23th, 24th in LD Debate; 1st Speaker in LD Debate; 2nd and 3rd Place in SPAR debate; 5th in Congressional Debate
• Novice / JV Championships 2020: 1st Place (Champion) Novice LD Debate; 5th Place JV LD Debate; 4 out of the 8 quarterfinalists were Athens Students; 3 out of the 4 semifinalists were Athens Students; Athens had the most students in eliminations

 

• Stanford University 2020: 1st Place (Champion) JV LD Debate; 6 students qualified for elimination rounds; 3rd, 5th, & 10th Place Speaker Awards in JV LD Debate; 1 Quarterfinalist in JV LD Debate; 2 Octafinalists in JV LD Debate; 2 Double-Octafinalists in JV LD Debate 

 

• UC Berkeley 2020: 1st Seed in JV LD Debate; 2nd Place Speaker Award in Varsity LD Debate; 3rd Place in JV LD Debate;  6 students qualified for elimination rounds; 5th Place in JV LD Debate; 1 Octafinalist in JV LD Debate; 3 Double-Octafinalists in JV LD Debate; 1 Octafinalist in Varsity LD Debate; 5th and 8th Place Speaker Award in JV LD Debate

 

• College Preparatory School 2019: 1st Place (Champion) in Novice LD Debate 

 

• Santa Clara University 2019: 1st Place (Champion) in Novice LD Debate; 7 students in elimination rounds; 5th in Varsity LD debate; 2 students achieve 4-2 records in Varsity LD as 8th graders; 4th and 6th Place Speaker Award in Novice LD Debate

 

• Panther 2019: 1st (Champion), 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th in Novice LD Debate; All four undefeated debaters were Athens Debaters; 1st Place Speaker Awards in Novice LD Debate; 1st Place in JV LD Debate

 

• Stratford 2019: 1st Seed & 2nd Seeds in LD Debate; 1st Speaker & 3rd Speaker awards for LD Debate

 

• Stephen Stewart 2019: 2nd Place & 2nd Speaker in Novice LD Debate; 7th Place (by an 8th grader) in Varsity LD Debate

 

• 2019 Bay Area Middle School Championships: Athens Debate placed 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 9th, and 10th in LD Debate

 

• 2019 California State Championships: Athens placed 5th and 9th in LD debate. In SPAR debate, Athens placed 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th.

 

• 2018 Santa Clara University Tournament: Athens placed 1st, 3rd, 5th, 9th, and had 3 others in double-octafinals for LD debate. Athens had the 1st seed and 2nd Speaker in LD debate. This was a high-school tournament and our debaters were middle schoolers.

 

• 2019 Western JV/Novice Championships: Athens placed 2nd, 5th, and 9th in LD debate. Athens was the only program to have middle schoolers reach elimination rounds. Not only did our middle schoolers reach elimination rounds at an advanced high school tournament, they placed 2nd!

 

• 2019 Stanford & Berkeley: Athens placed two students in Octafinals in LD debate

 

• 2019 Peter Burnett: 2 undefeated in Experienced LD; 2 undefeated in Regular LD

 

• 2018 Panther Invitational: Athens had 6 middle school debaters place in the Top 15 in LD debate. This was a predominantly high school tournament.