National Speech and Debate Championships 2007
Wichita, Kansas
June 18-22

Over 2000 student competitors (about 200 in each event) from over 40 states participated in the week long tournament.
In addition to the individual honors listed below, Bellarmine was also presented with the following team awards:

School of Excellence in Speech
School of Excellence in Debate

School of Excellence in Speech and Debate
(Bellarmine was one of only 3 schools in the U.S. to achieve this distinction. Interestingly, the other two schools were Leland High School of San Jose and James Logan High School of Union City).

National Extemporaneous
2nd Brian Stephan (Brian also received an award as one of only twenty students to qualify to four national tournaments)
10th Evan Larson
Octofinalist Rustin Kashani (top 60)

International Extemporaneous
Semifinalist Nihaal Karnick (top 14)
Octofinalist Vasant Ramachandran (top 60)

Student Congress
6th JP Padilla

Policy Debate Speaker Awards
11th Carl Rice

Policy Debate
10 rounds Ben Sigrist-Joe Grimes (top 30)
9 rounds Nick Simmons- Nate Wong (top 40)
9 rounds Georgi Dimitrov-Carl Rice (top 40)

Lincoln Douglas Debate
8 rounds Tim McKenzie (top 60)

Original Oratory
Octofinalist Sagar Vijay (top 60)

Dramatic Interpretation
Octofinalist Stephen Elrod (top 60)

Hey all. 32 incredibly focused members of the speech and debate team spent the last three days in Fullerton at the California State High School Speech and Debate Championships with happy results. 145 high schools were represented in three divisions of team competition; Bellarmine just fought hard for the win in the large school division against teams of as many as 55 or more. Special congratulations go to individual state champions Brian Stephan in National Extemporaneous, Nihaal Karnik in International Extemporaneous, Stephen Elrod in Dramatic Interpretation and the team of Brian Stephan and Evan Larson in Parliamentary Debate. Huge thanks go to Dee Dee Sullivan, Mike Meyer, and, as always, Chris Wolf, for putting in long hours and never losing their senses of humor. Special credit also goes to Jesse who, when all 32 received the answer “no” from me as to the possibility of a Disneyland stop, resisted the same full court press with success when asked to hijack the bus.

Full results are listed below. Thanks for your patience and support throughout our season that led to this group effort; they do well because you all have prepared them in many, many ways in many different classes. Kim for the coaches.

Impromptu

Will Rafey Third

International Extemp

Nihaal Karnik First

Nihar Shah Third

Vasant Ramachandran Tenth

National Extemp

Brian Stephan First

Evan Larson Second

Rustin Kashani Third

Original Oratory

Sagar Vijay Sixth

Chris Nguyen Ninth

Vikas Yendluri Sixteenth

Original Advocacy

Chip Morton Third

Expository

Kolby Hanson Eighth

Tim McKenzie Eleventh

Dramatic Interp

Stephen Elrod First

Congress

JP Padilla Second

Public Forum Debate

Vasant Ramachandran and Ryan Houston Octafinals

Parliamentary Debate

Brian Stephan and Evan Larson First

Lincoln Douglas Debate

Tim McKenzie Third

Arvind Kannan Octafinals

Chip Morton Octafinals

Policy Debate

Sahil Vora and Patrick Go Octafinals

Bryant Yang and Daniel Chung Octafinals

Sagar Vijay and Ani Deshmukh Semifinals

Biz Walia and Georgi Dimitrov Semifinals

Nate Wong and Nick Simmons Second

Sweepstakes

First Bellarmine College Prep 125 points

Second James Logan 118 points

Third Leland 91 points

Fourth Gabrielino 71 points

Fifth Fullerton ?

On Friday and Saturday a number of Bells competed to Qualify to the
State Tournament in Fullerton this year in Lincoln Douglas Debate and
Policy Debate.

In Lincoln Douglas, 11 Bells competed against 60 other competitors for 9 slots.  Arvind Kannan (11), Chip Morton (11), and Captain Tim McKenzie (12) will represent Bellarmine at the State Tournament.  Andrew Nguyen (11), Satej Soman (9) and Wonchan Yi (9) are alternates.

In Policy Debate, 9 Bellarmine Teams battled against 15 teams from other schools for the 9 slots.  The teams of Nihaal Karnik (12) - Nihar Shah (12), Georgui Dimitrov (11) - Biz Walia (11), Nick Simmons (11) - Nate Wong (11), and Sagar Vijay (10) - Ani Deshmukh (10) earned their slots in the final round while the senior team of Bryant Yang - Daniel Chung and Team Captains Sahil Vora - Patrick Go earned their spots by completing the preliminary rounds undefeated.  Juniors Joe Grimes, Eric Maltiel, Ben Sigrist, and Terry Reilly are alternates.

Please congratulate all the Policy debaters and LDers when you see them as these results truly represent a team effort.

As always, thanks for all you do to support the guys

-- the NFL coaching staff

This past Saturday around 80 of our speech and debate students competed at a league individual events tournament at Monta Vista High School and did very well. Please congratulate the guys when you see them.
Thanks, as always for your support.

Monta Vista Individual Events Tournament Saturday, January 20, 2007

Original Oratory
1st Sagar Vijay
3rd Chris Nguyen
5th Calvin Lee
7th Vijay Sridharan

Original Advocacy

3rd Chip Morton
4th Eric Maltiel
5th Joe Grimes
6th Bharat Panuganti
7th Nick Simmons

Expository
1st Kolby Hanson
3rd Shahid Mallik
4th Tim McKenzie
5th Anthony Vieira
7th Devon Collins

International Extemporaneous
1st Evan Larson
2nd Vasant Ramachandran
7th Wonchan Yi

National Extemporaneous
2nd Nihaal Karnick
3rd Nihar Shah
5th Rustin Kashani
6th Will Rafey
7th Matt Rossetto

Dramatic Interpretation
1st Stephen Elrod
4th Ben Sigrist
6th Krishna Kalpathy
7th Nitin Egbert

Humorous Interpretation
1st Stephen Elrod

Impromptu
1st Vasant Ramachandran
2nd Nihaal Karnick
3rd Evan Larson
5th Nihar Shah

Hi all. Last weekend, the Bells were involved in two tournaments. Bill Healy took Brian Stephan to Nashville, Tennessee for the Montgomery Bell Academy Round Robin.

The top 16 speakers in the US in extemporaneous speaking are invited to the three day tournament. Brian placed eighth, learned a ton, and a good time was had by all.

Twenty-two other Bells went to the CSU Fullerton Invitational. Not as fancy, but just as much fun and the weather was way better. Here are the results:

Policy Debate (80 teams competed from 50 high schools)
Second
Joe Grimes and Ben Sigrist
Quarters
Sahil Vora and Daniel Chung
Nate Wong and Nick Simmons
Terry Reilly and Carl Rice
Octos
Ani Deshmukh and Sagar Vijay
Policy Speaker Awards
First Carl Rice
Second Sahil Vora
Third Ben Sigrist
Seventh Nate Wong
Eighth Terry Reilly
Ninth Sagar Vijay

Lincoln Douglas Debate
Semis
Rustin Kashani
Quarters
Tim McKenzie
Evan Larson
Octos
Arvind Kannan

Impromptu Speaking
Second Rustin Kashani
Third Evan Larson
Fourth Vasant Ramachandran
Semi Arjun Srinivasan
Semi Nate Wong

Persuasive Speaking
Fourth Chip Morton
Fifth Sagar Vijay
Sixth Terry Reilly
Semi Cameron Suhr
Semi Daniel Chung
Semi Ani Deshmukh

Expository Speaking
Second Kolby Hanson
Semi Tim McKenzie
Semi Arvind Kannan

95 of our guys competed in this tournament of over 500 contestants on
Saturday. They did quite well. Please offer them your congratulations.

Original Oratory
1st Cameron Suhr
3rd Andrew Nguyen
4th Calvin Lee
5th Sagar Vijay
6th Daniel Chung

Original Advocacy
1st Chip Morton
3rd Terry Reilly
5th Joe Grimes
6th Sahil Vora
7th Ani Deshmukh

Expository
1st Kolby Hanson
3rd Tim McKenzie
7th Nick Mascoli

National Extemporaneous
1st Brian Stephan
3rd Evan Larson
4th Vasant Ramachandran
7th Arjun Srinivasan

International Extemporaneous
2nd Nihaal Karnick
3rd Nihar Shah
5th Rustin Kashani

Humorous Interpretation
2nd Stephan Elrod
4th Danny Gould

Impromptu
1st Nihaal Karnick
4th Vasant Ramachandran
5th Rustin Kashani
6th Nihar Shah

Hi all. Forty five freshmen competed in their first speech tournament last Sunday in the Coast Forensic League’s fall novice tournament held at Leland High School. Please congratulate those listed on a great beginning to their competitive season. Thanks.

National Extemporaneous

First Chris Enright

International Extemporaneous

Second Anthony Paranzino

Third Danny Prikazsky

Fourth Jake Baker

Impromptu

First Anthony Paranzino

Second Wonchan Yi

Original Advocacy

Second Wonchan Yi

Fourth Vinay Viswanadham

Fifth Akhil Ramanadham

Seventh Vik Singh

Original Oratory

Third Kyle Vandenberg

Sixth Remi Sun

Expository

Fifth Rajeev Alluri

Seventh Satej Soman