Hawken Debaters Qualify for State and National Tournaments

Six members of Hawken’s Speech and Debate Team qualified for the NSDA National Tournament to be held from June 12-17th in Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
The team will also be sending 29 qualified students to the OHSSL State Tournament that will take place next weekend in Cincinnati. Congratulations and Go Hawks!
 
National Qualifiers:
 
Congressional Debate
Phillip Hedayatnia ‘16
Tim Holman ‘16
 
Nayan Rao ’17 and Andrew Griffin ’18 (First Alternates)
 
Policy Debate
Kevin Yu ’17 and Matt Zhu ‘16
 
Derrick Liu ’16 and Noah Charnas ’16 (First Alternates)  
 
U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking
Anton Salem ‘16
 
International Extemporaneous Speaking
Isaac Jacobson ‘16
 
Lincoln Douglas
 
Zade Akras ’18 (First Alternate)
 
State Qualifiers
 
Congressional Debate
Nayan Rao ‘17
Phillip Hedayatnia ‘16
Tim Holman ‘16
Emma Ritz ‘16
 
Dramatic Interp
Mitchell Maly ‘16
 
International Extemporaneous Speaking
Brennen Keuchel ‘19
Brian Sun ‘18
Isaac Jacobson ‘16
Regina Yu ’16 (2nd Alternate)
 
U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking
Esther Bedoyan ‘18
Zoe Rodriguez ‘18
Anton Salem ‘16
 
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Zade Akras ‘17
Dhweeja Dasarathy ‘17
Omar Khan ‘16
Nicole Kastelic ‘16
 
Policy Debate
Michelle Zhang ’19 and Sinan Aktay ‘19
Kevin Yu ’17 and Matt Zhu ‘16
Noah Charnas ’16 and Derrick Liu ‘16
 
Public Forum Debate
Sauren Khosla ’18 and Kareem Danan ‘17
Ozan Ergungor ’17 and Ammar Lone ‘17
Josef Horwath ’17 and Alex Blake ‘16
James Swingos ’16 and Devesh Modi ‘16
 
 
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