Team wins two awards at Klein Oak

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