August 30-31, 2019

The Plano Senior High / Clark High School Swing speech and debate tournament took place on August 30-31 with 36 schools competing. 

Jasper High School

Thirty-six speech and debate students represented Jasper High School. Congratulations to the following Jasper High School students:

• Amogh Anoo - semifinals, Plano international extemporaneous speaking
• Gabriel Bo - semifinals, Plano international extemporaneous speaking; fifth place, Clark original oratory
• Janvi Garg - octofinals, Plano Lincoln-Douglas
• Anna Helterbrand - semifinals, Clark original oratory
• Charles Hou - first place, Plano U.S. extemporaneous speaking; first place, Clark U.S. extemporaneous speaking, (qualified to the 2020 TFA State Speech and Debate Tournament)
• Kaitlyn Hou - finals, Clark congressional debate
• Kelly Hu - semifinals, Plano, international extemporaneous speaking
• Anushka Kumar - third place, Plano international extemporaneous speaking; sixth place, Clark international extemporaneous speaking
• Kyle Letterer - second place, Plano U.S. extemporaneous speaking; semifinals, Clark U.S. extemporaneous speaking
• Zoya Makkar - sixth place, Plano poetry
• Bhavik Tadigotla - fifth place, Plano original oratory; sixth place, Clark original oratory
• Madeline Tsao - semifinals, Clark U.S. extemporaneous speaking

 Jasper speech and debate team at the August 31 competition.

Plano East Senior High School

Congratulations to the following Plano East students:

• Sindhu Bommineni - fifth place, Plano, U.S. extemporaneous speaking
• Vibha Chemangunta - third place, Plano original oratory; third place, Clark, original oratory, (National Individual Events Tournament of Champions (NIETOC) qualified)
• Saharsh Dasari - second place Plano congressional debate; fourth place, Clark congressional debate, 
• Nevin Gera - semifinalist, Clark Lincoln-Douglas
• Hamsika Gorty - semifinalist, Plano Lincoln-Douglas
• Sanjana Hiremath - semifinalist, Clark Lincoln-Douglas
• Neha Jayarajan - first place Plano original oratory; second place Clark, original oratory, (state and NIETOC qualified)
• Neel Kanamangala - semifinalists Plano public forum; quarterfinalists, Clark public forum
• Jay Namdhari - semifinalists Plano public forum; quarterfinalists, Clark public forum
• Greg Shumakevich - second place, Clark, U.S. extemporaneous speaking

Plano East Senior High School speech and debate team.

Plano West Senior High School

Plano West debaters earned second place sweepstakes at this competition. Congratulations to the following Plano West students:

• Nihar Annam - semifinals, Plano public forum debate
• Medha Anoo - fourth place, Clark original oratory
• Tejas Bansal - third place, Plano congressional debate; seventh place, Clark congressional debate
• Katia Benguesmia - sixth place, Plano original oratory; third place, Clark U.S. extemporaneous speaking
• Erin Feng - fourth place, Plano U.S. extemporaneous speaking
• Dylan Herrick - octofinals, Plano Lincoln Douglas debate  
• Edison Huang - quarterfinals, Clark public forum debate
• Dylan Jones - quarterfinals, Clark Lincoln Douglas debate
• Rohan Kamalakantha - semifinals, Clark public forum debate 
• Shruti Kotha - quarterfinals, Clark public forum debate
• Conrad Krueger - quarterfinals, Plano public forum debate
• Adithya Karthik - sixth place, Clark U.S. extemporaneous speaking
• Renee Li - finals, Clark public forum debate
• Daniel Liang - quarterfinals, Clark public forum debate
• Michelle Ma - quarterfinals, Clark public forum debate 
• Srikar Mamillapalli - first place, Plano congressional debate (state qualified); third place, Clark congressional debate
• Pranav Nathan - sixth place, Clark informative
• Alyssa Nie - finals, Clark public forum debate
• Pranav Pattatathunaduvil - first place, Plano international extemporaneous speaking (state qualified); second place, Clark international extemporaneous speaking
• Avaneesh Rade - first place, Clark congressional debate
• Noah Romo - quarterfinals, Plano public forum debate
• Reeya Shah - ninth place, Clark congressional debate
• Andy Shufer - semifinals, Clark public forum debate
• Donovan Spall - first place, Plano public forum debate
• Sumati Srivastava - fifth place, Plano congressional debate; fifth place, Clark congressional debate
• Jennifer Su - fifth place, Planoi nformative speaking; first place, Clark informative
• Mitchell Thorsell - third place, Plano U.S. extemporaneous speaking
• Angela Wang - second place, Plano international extemporaneous speaking (state qualified); first place, Clark international extemporaneous speaking
• Brandon Wang - semifinals, Plano public forum debate
• Lillian Ye - finals, Clark public forum debate
• Angela Yi - finals, Clark public forum debate
• Yizhen Zhen - first place, Plano public forum debate