The Lanier Speech & Debate team earned two awards at the Klein Oak Middle School Tournament this past weekend, a 1st Place Sweepstakes award in the large school division and "The Good Citizenship" Award for our professionalism and courtesy. 
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Public Forum Debate
Ishan Dubey & Austin Fiorito – 2nd
Suraj Vadapalli & Matthew Westerhold - semifinalists
Ellen Dai & Emerald Tang - semifinalists
Nathan Chang & Shining Sun – quarterfinalists
Varun Manickam – quarterfinalist
Rayleigh Nam & Saarang Ramabhadran - quarterfinalists
 
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Kalina Peneva – 1st
 
Congressional Debate
Yash Semlani – 1st
Ian Tran – 3rd
Lakshmi Sunder – 6th
Theo Hunt – 7th
Ellery McDaniel – 8th
Selim Guven – 12th
 
World Schools Debate
Frances Hill, Rayyah Mouilso, Hope Nguyen – 1st
Tomas Borja, Soumil Goyal, Rahul Kavaipatti, John Hajdik & Pablo Pena – 2nd
 
Duet Improvisation
Mitsuki Jiang & Cristina McInnis – 6th
 
Jr. Poetry
Kritika Dwarakanath – 5th
 
Sr. Poetry
Analisa Fernandez-Weir – 3rd
Hope Nguyen – 7th
 
Oratory
Lakshmi Sunder – 1st
Zayn Malik – 2nd
Soumil Goyal – 5th
Ayushi Mohanty – 6th
Stephanie Huang – 7th
Varun Manickam – 8th
 
Declamation
Cristina McInnis – 4th
Grace Shearer – 8th
 
 
 
 
Senior Prose
Amy Park – 5th
K-Lin Nguyen – 6th
 
Extemporaneous Speaking
Ankit Burudgunte – 2nd
Austin Fiorito – 3rd
Theo Hunt – 4th
Charlotte Sterner – 5th
Franklin Wu – 6th
Sam Nielsen – 7th
 
Humorous
Mitsuki Jiang – 3rd
 
Impromptu Speaking
Ishan Dubey – 1st
Lakshmi Sunder – 2nd
Kalina Peneva – 4th
Yash Semlani – 6th
 
 
 

The team competed at the Bellaire Forensic Tournament as the only middle school with over 50 high school teams. See the list of breaks!

​Novice Poetry
Analisa Fernandez-Weir – 2nd
 
Novice Oratory
Grace Shearer – 3rd
Gargi Rakhade – 4th
Zayn Malik – 5th
Mitsuki Jiang – 7th
Stephanie Huang – 8th
 
Duet Acting
Mitsuki Jiang & Cristina McInnis – 3rd
Zara Khandwalla & Elif Okumus – 5th
Bobo Obali & Jessica Ton – 6th
 
Novice Impromptu Speaking
Rushil Chetty – 3rd
 
Novice Prose
Analisa Fernandez – 1st
Gargi Rakhade – 3rd
Grace Shearer – 4th
 
Senior Prose
Hope Nguyen – 5th
Lucas Salaberry – 6th
 
Novice Extemp
Gargi Rakhade – 4th
 
Novice Congressional Debate
Lakshmi Sunder – 2nd
 
Novice Public Forum
Ishan Dubey & Austin Fiorito – 1st
Suraj Vadapalli & Yanke Wang – quarterfinalists
Varun Manickam & Sway Panigrahi - octafinalists
 
Novice Lincoln-Douglas
Sonya Kulkarni – Semifinalist
Cindy Cui - Quarterfinalist

This weekend the team travels to Bellaire for their high school tournament. We will be the only middle school there along with 50 high school teams. The tournament is spread over two days:

Friday
Students in impromptu speaking, poetry, oratory, duet acting and debate will report to the Lanier foyer at 12:30 to take buses to Bellaire. Rounds begin at 2:00 p.m. Students can be picked up at Bellaire Friday night since there won't be a bus returning to Lanier.

Saturday
Students in extemporaneous speaking, humorous, prose and debate need to report directly to Bellaire (7:45 a.m. for debaters and extempers and 8:15 a.m. for others.)  Students will be picked up at Bellaire once they are done. 

1st PLACE SWEEPSTAKES

Oral Reading
Mitsuki Jiang – 1st
Amy Park – 3rd
Zayn Malik – 4th
 
Lincoln-Douglas
Lucas Salaberry – 2nd
Diya Vettical - Semifinalist
Speaker Awards
Diya Vettical – 1st
Lucas Salaberry – 2nd
 
 
Congressional Debate
Yash Semlani – 1st
Lakshmi Sunder – 3rd
 
Public Forum Debate
Ishan Dubey & Austin Fiorito – 1st
Rayleigh Nam & Saarang Ramabhadran – 2nd
Ankit Burudgunte & Nathan Chang – Semifinalists
Speaker Awards
Saarang Ramabhadran – 1st
Rayleigh Nam – 2nd
Austin Fiorito – 3rd

​Public Forum Debate
Ishan Dubey & Austin Fiorito – 1st
Rayleigh Nam & Saarang Ramabhadran – 2nd
Suraj Vadapalli & Yanke Wang - semifinalists
Varun Manickam & Sway Panigrahi - quarterfinalists
Kalina Peneva & Gargi Rakhade - quarterfinalists
Nathan Chang & Zayan Niaz - quarterfinalists
 
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Ayushi Mohanty - Quarterfinalist
Michael Liu – Octafinalist
Ankit Burudgunte – Octafinalist
Franklin Wu - Octafinalist
 
Congressional Debate
Diane Sun – 1st
Theo Hunt – 2nd
Lakshmi Sunder – 3rd
Ellery McDaniel – 4th
 
Storytelling
Cristina McInnis – 5th
 
Dramatic
Kayla Salinas – 6th
 
Junior Poetry
Analisa Fernandez-Weir – 2nd
 
Senior Poetry
Hope Nguyen – 4th
Grace Shearer – 5th
Lucas Salaberry – 6th
 
Oratory
Ayushi Mohanty – 6th
 
Declamation
Lucas Salaberry – 5th
 
Prose
Amy Park – 2nd
 
Duet Acting
Mitsuki Jiang & Cristina McInnis – 1st
 
Humorous
Mitsuki Jiang- 2nd
 
 
 
 
Impromptu Speaking
Lakshmi Sunder – 1st
Diane Sun – 2nd
Ishan Dubey – 3rd
 
Extemporaneous Speaking
Lucas Salaberry – 1st
Franklin Wu – 2nd
Theo Hunt – 3rd
Gargi Rakhade – 6th
 
Lip-Sync
K-Linh Nguyen – 3rd
 
Solo Improvisation
Mitsuki Jiang – 5th
 

7:45 a.m.                     Report to Klein High School cafeteria
8:00-9:30  Section A Prelims  
8:15 Debate Round I
9:30-11:00 Section B Prelims
9:45 Debate Round II
11:00-12:30 Section C Prelims  
11:15 Debate Round III
12:30-2:00 Section D Prelims
12:30  Extemp Draw
2:00-3:30 Section A and B Semis; Congress finals (2:15 – 4:15)
3:30-5:00 Debate Quarters; Section C and D Semis
3:45 Extemp Draw
5:00-6:30 Section A and B Finals
5:30 Debate Semis
6:30-8:00 Section C and D Finals
6:45 Extemp Draw
7:00 Debate Finals
8:45 Awards Assembly
9:30 P.M.Pick up at Klein High School

Klein High School
16715 Stuebner Airline Rd, Klein, TX 77379

​Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Franklin Wu – 1st
Ayushi Mohanty – 3rd
Diya Vettical – 8th
Smruthi Garlapati – 10th
Rushil Chetty – 10th
 
Public Forum Debate
Kalina Peneva & Gargi Rakhade – 2nd
Suraj Vadapalli & Yanke Wang – 3rd
Ishan Dubey & Austin Fiorito – 4th
Rayleigh Nam & Saarang Ramabhadran – 7th
 
World Schools
Soumil Goyal, Lucy Lack, Yash Semlani & Lydia Tong – 1st
Rahul Kaviapatti, Joshua Lin, Shreeja Mosalakanti & Shreeya Mosalakanti – 1st
Dhruv Balivada, Ankit Burudgunte, Varun Manickam, Swayambhu Panigrahi, Jack Purser – 3rd
 
Congress
Lakshmi Sunder – 1st
Diane Sun – 2nd
Ian Tran – 2nd
Frederick Richardson – 3rd
Ava Faubus – 3rd
Theo Hunt – 3rd
 
Extemporaneous Speaking
Lucas Salaberry – 1st
Cindy Cui – 2nd

Our first afterschool 6th grade debate club meeting will occur on Tuesday, Sept. 25. All sixth graders, regardless of whether they are in the class or not, are welcome to attend. We go from 3:50 to 5:00 p.m. and will meet on the North "Hutch" Patio. There is no registration form or application, just show up!

The 7th and 8th graders will be competing at the Bellaire Novice Extravaganza (BNE) on Sept. 14 and 15 at Bellaire High School.  This event is NOT a tournament but rather an opportunity for debate teams to compete in multiple rounds to shake off the rust and get some experience with the new topics. Students who are interested should sign up with Mr. Hill by Sept. 5

Welcome back to school and to another year of debate!  This site is the place for current students and parents to find our schedule, team guide and other information related to Lanier Speech & Debate.