At Washburn Rural:
Team wins 1st in sweeps!! 🔥
NOVICE
Isha - 1st place speaker🔥
Teja - 2nd place speaker
Teja/Rishabh - 1st🔥
Rebecca/Michael - 8th
Victoria/Amira - 5th
VARSITY
Iman - 3rd place speaker
Sarah - 5th place speaker
Iman/Sarah - UNDEFEATED🔥
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Rishabh Barve, our NINTH GRADER, finishes 5th in the nation in Oratory at NCFL! We are SO proud of you, and of our entire amazing group of (very young) national qualifiers. The future of BVW speech and debate is very bright!!
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Our 9th grade oratory state champ Rishabh ends his amazing run at nationals in semifinals! We are SO proud of him, and can’t wait to see what he accomplishes in the next three years!
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Heer and Supta didn’t feel like losing any debate rounds this weekend, and qualified for the NSDA National Tournament with an undefeated record! We’re heading to Albuquerque this summer!
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Congrats to Rishabh and Abigail for WINNING the KU debate camp 2-week tournament, and shout out to Arya for making quarters! We’re so proud of you! ❤️
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Sarah and Iman end a very, very, VERY long weekend as runners-up at the Washburn Rural debate invitational. They had an outstanding season opener, and collected their first TOC bid!
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Sai and Nargis end their outstanding run at Dowling in semifinals! We are so proud of these two—they are excellent debaters and even better people.
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Congrats to Heer and Supta for finishing their run in semifinals and earning three DCI bids! An excellent season opener for two outstanding debaters.
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At NCFL, Rishabh is the 7th place oratory in the nation! Meanwhile, Ananya ends her run in octos and Iman/Sarah end in policy doubles. VERY proud of these very young jaguars!
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At Nationals in Phoenix, Rishabh breaks to elim rounds in oratory for the second year in a row! Arya ends a great run in info. Jude and Sarah begin competing tomorrow!
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Rishabh, our 9th grade oratory phenom, has qualified for the FINAL round at NCFL! He competes in just a few minutes against the best speakers in the nation!
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#SeniorSpotlight
Heer Mehta is a four year debater we will miss terribly. She’s smart, talented, and made BVW Debate better just by being part of the team. Next year she begins the Med Program at UMKC. We ❤️ you, Heer!
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At the 4-Speak Regional Qualifier: Sai, Nargis, Iman, Sarah, Arya and Arnesh finish in 2nd place with just one loss and punch their ticket to state!
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We have our first national qualifiers! Congrats to Arya and Arnesh for punching their ticket to nats.
Ananya/Abigail and Sarah/Iman are still in the running! More rounds at 6:00, 8:00, and 10:00(!) tonight.
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Nationals is a great reminder of the enormous talent in our state. It is a genuine privilege to compete against, learn from, and grow with the KS speech and debate community. The kids are alright!
And in 4-Speak, the Jaguars end the tournament in 2nd place! Congrats to juniors Arya, Arnesh, Iman, Sarah, Rishabh, and Abigail on an outstanding season.
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At regionals, the Jaguars are the undefeated tournament champs! Congrats to Arya/Arnesh, Rishabh/Abigail, and Iman/Sarah for punching their ticket to state in January.
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At the biggest academic competition in the world, Rishabh ends his oratory run in the top 30! Meanwhile, Jude, Sarah, and Arya all have outstanding performances in poetry and info. A great run in Phoenix for the jaguars!
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We ❤️ ESU! Debate is immensely valuable, and these students represented themselves and their university phenomenally even under the worst possible circumstances.
Unfortunately we lost our semifinals debate. With that, our season--and existence as a debate--team has come to an end. Congratulations to Wake Forest.
I am ridiculously proud of this team and everything they've done this year and thank you all for cheering us on.
Arnesh/Arya and Rishabh/Abigail both end their run in quarters. An excellent start to the season!
Sarah/Iman win on a 3-0, continue to semis, and earn their first bid to the TOC! Next debate at 2pm.
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An ENORMOUS thanks to Squid and Aaron, who give up countless hours and weekends coaching these two. Their expertise and the care they show our students is unmatched. We are lucky to have them!
Sai and Nargis win their octos round on a 3-0 and are officially fully qualified to the tournament of champions!! They debate in quarters in one hour.
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At state in oratory, Rishabh takes first and Arya takes second AGAIN! These two finished in the same places as 9th graders last year!
Rishabh also takes first in info, making him a dual state champ!
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At the NSDA National Qualifier:
Arya V. - 1st Info (State AND National qualifier!) 🔥
Jude/Mea - 5th Duo
Sarah - 4th POI
Ananya - 4th OO
Jude - 5th POI
Aryav - 5th DX
The team finishes 3rd in sweeps! We are so proud of this VERY young team!
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At the end of prelims Sai and Nargis are 6-0 at Dowling and enter octos as the top seed!
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(Shout out to our Kansas friends
@LHS_DB8_4N6
for also clearing!)
Abigail and Rishabh (the sophomores!) are the Kansas Debate Classic runners-up! A very successful, VERY long day of competition in the books for the jaguars!
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Rishabh, Ananya, and Arya V. all qualify to NCFL Nationals in Public Speaking! Jude and Mea are finalists in Duo Acting, and Arya S. is a finalist in extemp. Special shout-out to Arya V. for finishing in first place!
We’re SO proud of you!
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BVW has 3 of the top 24 teams in Kansas, each earning a spot at the DCI tournament in January:
Arya/Arnesh
Iman/Sarah
Abigail/Rishabh
Congrats to sophomores Ananya/Grace for earning a spot in DCI Silver! BVW ends the year as the 3rd place school in total DCI bids.
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Congrats to Nathan and Shishir on an outstanding finish to their debate careers! They have given a tremendous amount to this program and we are so proud of them.
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We have a LOT of results to celebrate from the final day of BVN, including the team taking 3rd in sweeps. In open, Rishabh and Abigail lose finals on a 2-1 decisions and are the SOPHOMORE runners-up!
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Final placing a at LFS:
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Neva: 2nd POI (State Qual!); 5th Prose
Yusra: 4th Oration
Dawson: 4th POI
Humphrey: 6th POI
Harrison: 3rd Impromptu (State Qual!)
A great weekend for the Jaguar Forensics team! Thanks
@LFSHS4N6andDB8
for hosting!
In varsity at De Soto, Arnesh/Arya clear to elims and end their run in quarters!
Meanwhile, Rishabh/Abigail win quarters and semis and are about to debate our friends from
@WaRuDebate
in finals!
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Speaker awards at novice state:
Grace - 2nd
Anvita - 4th
Parker - 5th
Andrey - 10th
As a team, we retain our novice state championship title for a third year in a row!
Andrey/Parker (6:0), Grace/Ananya (5:1), and Anvita/Niha (5:1) ALL clear to quarters!
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Congratulations Branden Kohnle 2nd Place HI, Holly Arend and Tara Warden 5th Place Duo and a State Qualifier
Alexander Fortune and Britain Bowles 2nd
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