Members of the MHS Speech & Debate Team are State and Nationals-bound! Students competed at the annual Greater Miami Valley District Tournament (“Little Districts”) at Centerville High School on February 5 & 6, where 27 team members qualified to the Ohio High School Speech League’s State Tournament that will be held locally this year at Princeton High School on March 3-5, 2016.

Declamation

Musa Khan

Humorous Interpretation

Ananya Tawde

Informative Speaking

Arnav Divekar Nish Sanakari Vinay Naik Rishi Mehta

International Extemporaneous Speaking

Aditi Rajgopal Kash Reddy Sriharsha Voleti Vighnesh Ramesh

Chinmay Bakshi (qualified through Western OH Districts but unable to attend States)

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Erin Patrick Sanjana Are

Original Oratory

Jenny Zhang Divya Manoharan

Public Forum Debate

The team of Alex Wang and Atneya Nair The team of Shivani Tumukuntala and Alec Bell The team of Rishav Mukherjee and Preetham Kastury The team of Sai Reddy and Dominick Peraino

United States Extemporaneous Speaking

Vidhan Bhardwaj Kevin Liu Ajay Saraf Nihar Rama

In addition to this success, team members also competed at the Western OH District Tournament (“Big Districts”) at Notre Dame Academy in Toledo, Ohio, where five MHS students qualified to the National Speech & Debate Association’s National Tournament with their top-two performances in the final rounds of their respective events. These team members will represent Mason in Salt Lake City, Utah, over the week of June 12-17 at Nationals.

United States Extemporaneous Speaking

Nihar Rama (2nd place)

Ajay Saraf (1st place)

International Extemporaneous Speaking

Chinmay Bakshi (2nd place)

Vighnesh Ramesh (3rd place – alternate)

Informative Speaking

Vinay Naik (2nd place)