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Solon Speech and Debate qualifies 11 students to Nationals
The Solon Speech and Debate team qualified a record number of 11 students to Nationals in Indiana through two national-qualifying tournaments. These students will compete June 10-15.
Solon’s Speech and Debate team competed in the last in-district tournament of the season and emerged victorious once again. In a combination of the Congress National Qualifying tournament at Gilmour High School on February 11 and the National Qualifying tournament of the North Coast District at St. Ignatius High School on February 17-18, Solon qualified a total of 11 competitors to the national tournament in Indianapolis on June 10-15. This is one more competitor than Solon qualified last year!
As a team, Solon won three sweepstakes awards: top Individual Event+Debate ranks, top ranks overall, and most round of Individual Events competed in.
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The following individuals qualified to the national tournament:
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United States Extemporaneous Speaking
Tiffany Li
International Extemporaneous Speaking
Eric Wang
2nd alternate | Ojas Sathe
Original Oratory
Liz Eder
1st alternate | Oliver Chen
Dramatic Interpretation
Kathy Zhang
London Christian
Nisha Malhotra
Humorous Interpretation
Meghan Pavrithran
Duo Interpretation
Annie Xin and Priyanka Pai
2nd alternate | Zachary Schwartz and Vibhu Krishna
2-Person Policy Debate
1st alternate | Michael Chen and Ayush Gupta
Congressional Debate
William Qu
John Zeng
A huge congratulations to all of these aspiring and achieving speakers and debaters! This is no small feat and nothing less than sheer motivation and hard work could explain this success. Having this many qualifiers speaks volumes about the leadership that our coaches, Jennifer Moore and Dan Ceci, have shown throughout the season and the hard work and dedication they have put in as well! The team owes them so many thanks that it would be impossible to express our appreciation through mere words.
The team looks forward to the State tournament on March 2-3 to try and finish among the top 10 teams in Ohio for the first time.