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Speech & Debate: 2019 TFA Princeton High School Tournament Results - Jasper High School

September 7, 2019

On Saturday, September 7, forty-three speech and debate students represented Jasper High School among nineteen schools competing at the 2019 Texas Forensic Association (TFA) Princeton High School Speech and Debate Tournament. Congratulations to the following students:

Public Forum Debate

  • Akshay Belhe and Aditya Nambi - quarterfinals
  • Priyanka Gupta and Sneha Posanipally - quarterfinals
  • Brennan Lee and Brian Zhou - quarterfinals

Congressional Debate

  • Neil Gupta – third place
  • Charles Hou – fourth place
  • Raghav Ramki – fifth place
  • Kaitlyn Hou – sixth place
  • Abhinav Chellury - finals
  • Kelly Hu - finals
  • Atharv Kulkarni - finals
  • Anushka Kumar - finals
  • Phoena Lin - finals

International Extemporaneous Speaking

  • Raghav Ramki – first place
  • Charles Hou – second place
  • Kelly Hu – third place
  • Gabriel Bo – fourth place
  • Anushka Kumar – sixth place

U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking

  • Madeline Tsao – first place
  • Kyle Letterer – second place
  • Neil Gupta – sixth place

Original Oratory

  • Madeline Tsao – fourth place
  • Gabriel Bo – fifth place
  • Olivia Fan – sixth place
  • Christopher Lorde – seventh place

Informative Speaking

  • Christopher Lorde – fourth place

Prose Interpretation

  • Sophia Zhang – first place

Sweepstakes

  • Jasper High School – second place

Additionally, Kyle Letterer qualified to the 2020 TFA State Speech and Debate Tournament in El Paso in U.S. extemporaneous speaking.

 

Jasper HS speech & debate team

Jasper High School speech and debate team group photo.