CHS Debate Team

www.hoochdebate.com

The Chattahoochee Forensics team is off to a great start this year. We opened the year with the First Annual Chatathon, a fundraiser filled with debate practice rounds and plenty of pizza to go around. We raised over $5,000 to support our team. We are also selling Cougar Paw magnets for the car or locker. Purchase one from any Forensics Team member for $6. We have already attended many tournaments. Our JV and varsity team members have traveled to Winston-Salem, NC, Dallas, TX, and Chicago, IL, to participate in tournaments. At Wake Forest, Chattahoochee had five of the top 10 JV teams, with Tony Pelli/ Matt Foretich and Ansley Barfield/Simon Mettler winning as co-champions, and two of the top five varsity teams: Utsav Kaushish/Ovais Inamullah and Scott Phillips/Ben Mehling. At the Greenhill tournament in Dallas, Chattahoochee had two of the top 10 teams: Maggy Warden/Brittany Cambre and Chen Ni/ Rajat Dhir. At local tournaments, Chattahoochee debaters captured championships at the varsity, JV and novice levels at Brookwood High School and at the varsity level at Starr's Mill High School. The team is doing so well because students spent all summer preparing at month-long debate camps at Northwestern University, Miami of Ohio, Dartmouth, Wake Forest, Michigan, Michigan State and Emory. Upcoming highlights for the team include more opportunities for the novices at tournaments in and around metro Atlanta, and JV and varsity trips to tournaments in Chicago and Ann Arbor, Mich. We are also looking forward to hosting the Cougar Classic Debate Tournament right here at Chattahoochee on Nov. 11 and 12. Students who are interested in finding out more about debate should talk to Mr. Smiley or Mr. Herndon. Debate is not only fun and challenging with lots of opportunity to travel, it also looks great on a college application. Consider joining one of the school’s "winningest" teams. GO HOOCH!

Awards and Achievements

Greenhill High School Tournament
Round Robin – Invitation to the top 16 schools in the nation.
1st place - Garrett Abelkop and John Warden

Regular Tournament – over 20 states and 150 teams represented
Top 5 – Daniyal Inamulah & Chen Ni
Top 20 – Garrett Abelkop & John Warden

Wake Forest University Debate Tournament
Varsity Tournament
2nd Place – Sherry Wang & Clare Zhang
Top 5 – Jenn Belding & Rajat Dhir
Top 20 – Brittany Cambre & Utsav Kaushish
Top 20 – Maggy Warden & Shasha Zou

Junior Varsity Tournament
1st place – Kevin Gao & Ben Mehling
3rd place – Rozmin Ajanee & Evelyn Frederickson

St. Marks High School Heart of Texas Tournament
Varsity Tournament
Top 5 – Garrett Abelkop & John Warden
Top 20 – Daniyal Inamullah & Chen Ni

Sophomore Round Robin
Top 10 – Ovais Inamullah & Candice Yip
Top 10 – Kevin Gao & Ben Mehling

University of Michigan Debate Tournament
Round Robin – invitation to top 10 Junior & Senior Teams in the Country
3rd Place Seniors – Daniyal Inamullah & Chen Ni
5th Place Juniors – Maggy Warden & Shasha Zou

Westminster High School Debate Tournament
Varsity
1st place – Garrett Abelkop & John Warden
Top 10 – Daniyal Inamullah & Ovais Inamullah
Top 10 – Sherry Wang & Clare Zhang

Brookwood High School Debate Tournament
Varsity
1st place – Garrett Abelkop & John Warden
3rd place – Daniyal Inamullah & Chen Ni
Top 10 – Sherry Wang & Clare Zhang
Top 10 – Ovais Inamullah & Candice Yip

Novice
1st place – Avanti Joglekar & Crystal Xu

Starr’s Mill High School Debate Tournament
Varsity
1st place – Garrett Abelkop & John Warden

Novice
1st place – Matt Foretich & Nitish Visandra
3rd place – Simon Mettler & Toni Pelli

Calhoun High School Debate Tournament
Novice
1st place – Ansley Barfield & Crystal Xu
3rd place - Simon Mettler & Toni Pelli

New Trier High School National Qualifier Tournament
Top 10 – Jenn Belding & Brittany Kaushish
Top 20 – Maggy Warden & Shasha Zou