Senior Ansh Sheth was crowned the tournament champion and top speaker and won of the award for the most outstanding record for the year last month at the National Debate Coaches Association Championship.
Speech and Debate
Fall speech and debate season off to a strong start
The Harker speech and debate team’s year is off to a strong start. They have attended tournaments as far away as Dallas and Des Moines, as well as several local events.
Senior named Lincoln-Douglas champion at Tournament of Champions
Senior Muzzi Khan won the National Championship in Lincoln-Douglas Debate at the University of Kentucky’s Tournament of Champions.
Upper school debate wins LD nat’l championship, named Leading Chapter
After a four-way closeout, seniors Muzzi Khan and Rahul Mulpuri and juniors Ansh Sheth and Panav Gogte were declared National Speech and Debate Association’s Lincoln-Douglas co-champions.
Speech and debate coach inducted into Gold Key Society
Speech and debate coach Greg Achten was inducted into the Emory University Barkley Forum’s Gold Key Society
Debate teacher elected to National Debate Coaches Association executive board
Upper school debate teacher Greg Achten was recently elected to the executive board of the National Debate Coaches’ Association.
Senior debater takes first at prestigious Greenhill Round Robin
Senior Rahul Mulpuri won first place at the prestigious Greenhill Round Robin in September.
Speech and debate finishes semester with national champions and finalists
The upper school and middle school speech and debate teams have had great second-semester results at major end-of-year championships.
Upper school speech and debate wins NDCA Championship
Last weekend, senior Anshul Reddy won the prestigious National Debate Coaches Association Championship, one of the big three speech and debate championships attended by teams from across the United States.
Harker debate wins overall sweepstakes award at Cal speech and debate tournament
Last month, Harker won the overall sweepstakes award at a speech and debate tournament held at UC Berkeley.
