2023-24 Season

 Four students traveled to the prestigious Tournament of Champions held at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. Students qualify for this tournament with exceptional results at national-level tournaments throughout the year.

Adele Fuzaylov was 2nd Place Overall in Dramatic Interpretation!

Suner Chopra was a semi-finalist in Congressional Debate!

Congratulations to Pranav Krishnan and Vasudevan Lakshmanan for qualifying.

Special thanks go to coach Carolina Lima, and Jasjyot Nanra for traveling and judging this tournament.

The State Debate final, took place over the weekend of March 22-24. It was due to take place at Chelmsford High School until ice on Saturday morning sent the entire tournament online.

Shrewsbury took 6th place overall. Given the size of our debate squad, this was a highly impressive result.

This performance was led by debate captain, Dheekshitha Sriram, and her partner, our extemporaneous speaking captain, Vishnu Angiras, who reached Varsity Public Forum Semi-finals (top 4 in the State).

Vasudevan Lakshmanan and Aashi Gupta were Octofinalists in the Varsity Public Forum (top 16).

On Saturday April 6, the 50 members of the team who qualified for the State Speech & Congress Finals traveled to Catholic Memorial School in West Roxbury.   Shrewssbury had 2 state champions:

• Team president, Siri Ural, was State Champion in Extemporaneous speaking!

• Nuha Salam was also State Champion in Poetry Reading!

Vasudevan Lakshmanan won a 2nd place award for Double Entry across diverse events: (Extemporaneous Speaking & Public Forum Debate).

Our 2nd place finish could not have happened without the other outstanding individual results:

Declamation

• 3rd - Rohan Gulati

• 6th - Rajit Naik

• Dramatic Performance

• 2nd - Adele Fuzaylov

Extemporaneous Speaking

• 4th - Vasudevan Lakshmanan

• 6th - Advait Bhowmik

Group Discussion

• Semi-finalist - Shuling Lin

Impromptu Speaking

• 2nd - Siri Ural

• 6th - Aditi Pathak

Informative Speaking

• 3rd - Trishna Nikte

• 6th - William Prince

Novice Oral Interpretation Final

• 3rd - Nishta Kumar

Original Oratory

• 3rd - Saketh Madhusudhan

Program Oral Interpretation

• 2nd - Sabrina Welch

• 5th - Adele Fuzaylov

Prose Reading

• 3rd - Nuha Salam

• 5th - Trisha Madamsetty

Congressional Debate

• 3rd - Pranav Krishnan

• 5th - Suner Chopra

The incredible season this team has had could not have been accomplished without the help of our assistant coaches: Carolina Lima, Hannah Hopkins, Craig Powers, Vivian Powers, Peter Collins, Jeremy Lambert, and Ashritha Reddy.  I'd also like to give a huge thank you to all the parents, guardians, and alumni that have joined us to judge this year - these tournaments rely heavily on parent judges especially, and the students wouldn't be able to have this opportunity without you.  - Coach Gabriel Hopkins 

 Shrewsbury High School hosted 34 different schools from across Massachusetts at its annual Mardi Gras Speech Carnivale. Shrewsbury High School came in first place overall!

This overall team result was spearheaded by the 5 first place individual finishes:

• Siri Ural - Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking

• Kubra Mohammadi - Original Oratory

• Nuha Salam - Prose Reading

• Sabrina Welch - Poetry Reading

• Jasman Padam - Group Discussion

Other outstanding individual results included:

Declamation

• 3rd: Diya Sankar

• Semi-finalist: Rajit Naik

Dramatic Performance

• 2nd: Adele Fuzaylov

• 6th: Angad Pannu

Duo Interpretation

• 6th: Sudhi Ramesh & Aanchal Karthik

• 7th: Heta Patel & Mariyah Khokar

Group Discussion

• 3rd: Shuling Lin

Impromptu

• 2nd: Siri Ural

• Semi-finalist: DeAnna Tsefrekas

Informative Speaking

• 3rd: Shamini Biju

• 5th: Trishna Nikte

Multiple Reading

• 3rd: Nuha Salam, Swathi Kannan, Heet Patel, Mariyah Khokar, & Aanchal Karthik

Novice Extemporaneous Speaking

• 6th: Saurav Patki

Novice Oral Interpretation Final

• 4th: Nishta Kumar

Novice Public Forum Debate

• 2nd: Shriya Jonnalagadda & Emmanuel Yu

Novice Public Forum Debate Speaker Awards

• 8th: Satya Divakaruni

Play Reading

• 5th - Anika Mamidala

Poetry Reading

• 2nd - Nuha Salam

• 3rd - Mariyah Khokar

• 4th - Nishta Kumar

Prose Reading

• 3rd - Trisha Madamsetty

Radio Broadcasting

3rd - Swathi Kannan

Congressional Debate

• 2nd - Suner Chopra

• 6th - Anushka Thomas

• 8th - Arya Suryanarayan

• 12th - Diya Anwin

Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking

• 3rd - Vishnu Angiras

Varsity Public Forum Debate Speaker Awards

• 5th - Vaishnavi Iyer

Special thanks go to the parents who not only judged all day for us, but those who volunteered their time or donations so that we could provide concessions and be gracious hosts to the estimated 750 people that were in attendance on Saturday. 

It should also be noted that Oak Middle School came in 9th place overall (out of 34 schools), with one student finishing 2nd in her individual event of Children's Literature - Annie DeFalco, an 8th grader. Sreshta Dittakavi also was the Champion in Novice Oral Interpretation. A great day for Shrewsbury all around!

This Presidents' Day weekend, 24 members of the SHS Speech & Debate team traveled to Cambridge, MA to compete in the Harvard University National Speech and Debate tournament. With just under 5000 students traveling from 38 different states and 7 different countries, this is one of the most prestigious and largest tournaments in the country.

Team president, Siri Ural, placed 3rd overall in Extemporaneous Speaking out of the 240 students entered!

Other students breaking to elimination rounds included:

• Adele Fuzaylov - Semi-finalist in Dramatic Interpretation (Top 12)

• Adele Fuzaylov - Octafinalist in Program Oral Interpretation

• Suner Chopra - Semi-finalist in Congressional Debate

• Nuha Salam - Octafinalist in Dramatic Interpretation

• Vishnu Angiras - Octafinalist in Extemporaneous Speaking

• Ishani Deshpande - Double-Octafinalist in Original Oratory

• Trishna Nikte - Double-Octafinalist in Original Oratory

• Sabrina Welch - Octafinalist in Program Oral Interpretation

• Trisha Madamsetty - Octafinalist in Program Oral Interpretation

Special thanks to coaches Carolina Lima, Peter Collins for judging and chaperoning alongside me. Thanks also to coach Ashritha Reddy and alumna Nishita Roy for judging in addition to our parent judges and drivers: Irene Drabkin, Sergey Fuzaylov, Kanwaljit Padam, April Prince, and Madhu Rajagopalan.

Coming soon