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Clear Brook Debate Team Racking Up Awards

The Clear Brook High School debate squad, with 18 members of the team present, had yet another outstanding weekend at James E. Taylor High School in Katy on November 20th and 21st. The team amassed a total of 15 awards, including six 1st place awards.

Karl Schaefer and Kelly Hogg returned to Clear Brook with 1st place trophies in Championship CX Debate, which also resulted in their final points needed for Texas Forensic Association (TFA) State qualification. Schaefer also earned a 1st place Impromptu Speaking award and Kelly Hogg earned a 2nd place CCX Speaking Award. Following Schaefer and Hogg, Nathan Tamburello and Dinusha Wijesinghe also achieved the remaining points they needed to secure their State qualification by winning 1st place in Public Forum Debate. Rishi Suresh, an up-and-coming novice member of the team, continued his winning streak by bringing home the 1st place award in Novice LD Debate as well as a 3rd place Speaker Award in this same event. Not to be outdone, however, team Vice President Elyssa Klann placed 2nd in Student Congress which also achieved her needed points for State qualification.

Additional award winners for the weekend included Saurabh Limaye with a 4th place award in Impromptu Speaking, Nhi Do with a 6th place award in this same event as well as Elyssa Klann with a 6th place award in Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking. The team was also brought home speaking awards in both CX and LD Debate. In addition to Hogg and Suresh, Andrew Kocen also earned a 2nd place Speaker Award for CLD.

This brings the team total of Texas Forensic Association State qualifiers to six – Karl Schaefer, Kelly Hogg, Andrew Kocen, Nathan Tamburello, Dinusha Wijesinghe and Elyssa Klann. Eric Chaney and Nhi Do also began their accumulation of Texas Forensic Association State points in Championship LD Debate.
 
 

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