2024-25 Season

Shrewsbury finished 2nd place overall.

Ishani Deshpande: 1st Place in Original Oratory

Vasu Lakshmanan: 1st Place in Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking

Anushka Thomas: 1st Place in Congressional Debate

Kaushik Satheesh Kumar & Helen Zuo: 1st Place in Novice Public Forum Debate

Congressional Debate

8th Place - Arya Suryanarayan

Impromptu Speaking

2nd Place - Shamini Biju

4th Place - Pradnya Cowlagi

Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking

6th Place - Pranav Gundu

7th Place - Tanay Gali

Original Oratory

5th Place - Diya Sankar

6th Place - Shamika Sureshkumar

Play Reading

3rd Place - Nishta Kumar

Poetry Reading

5th Place - Diya Shenoy

Prose Reading

2nd Place - Sreshta Dittakavi

4th Place - Arthi Kannan

Varsity Public Forum Debate

6th Place - Heta Patel & Prabhav Sai Vadlamudi

9th Place Speaker - Prabhav Sai Vadlamudi

Novice Public Forum Debate

8th Place - Hebe Jiang & Lucy Wang

2nd Place Speaker - Helen Zuo

7th Place Speaker - Lucy Wang

9th Place Speaker - Kaushik Satheesh Kumar

Special thanks to Hari Nair, Ashish Cowlagi, and all the parent judges: Rajeev Pappu, Yamini Gopalakrishnan, Mangesh Shinde, Dhruti Desai, Dhaval Nanavati, Guodong Tie, Leena Phillps, Mumtaz Hasan, and Basanthi Satish.

This past weekend, the team traveled to Natick High School for the Gracia Burkill Memorial Tournament. In keeping with Gracia Burkill's belief in individual success, no overall sweepstakes awards are handed out at this tournament.

Our individual success was as follows:

Annie DeFalco: 1st Place in Children's Literature

Jasman Padam: 1st Place in Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking

Pranav Gundu: 1st Place in Novice Extemporaneous Speaking

Nuha Salam: 1st Place in Program Oral Interpretation

Congressional Debate

5th Place - Amy He

7th Place - Diya Anwin

9th Place - Arya Suryanarayan

Declamation

5th Place - Rajat Krishnan

Dramatic Performance

2nd Place - Nuha Salam

Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking

5th Place - Pranav Krishnan

6th Place - Saurav Patki

Honorable Mention - Rayyan Alam

Novice Extemporaneous Speaking

4th Place - Shree Nair

6th Place - Sanjay Pappu

Impromptu Speaking

2nd Place - Aditi Pathak

Original Oratory

2nd Place - Rajit Naik

6th Place - Saketh Madhusudhan

Poetry Reading

2nd Place - Sabrina Welch

3rd Place - Aanchal Karthik

5th Place - Alice Young

Program Oral Interpretation

3rd Place - Trisha Madamsetty

Prose Reading

6th Place - Arthi Kannan

Varsity Public Forum Debate

6th Place - Heta Patel & Prabhav Sai Vadlamudi

Shrewsbury came in 1st place in the overall tournament sweepstakes. 

Informative Speaking

Shamini Biju  - Champion 

Varsity Public Forum Debate

6th Place - Chirantan Mavinahalli & AJ Aineni

Chirantan was 9th place speaker out of the 58 speakers overall.

Novice Public Forum Debate

Lillian Zhou was the 9th place speaker out of the 44 speakers overall.

Congressional Debate

Anushka Thomas - 2nd Place

Suner Chopra - 4th Place

Pranav Krishnan - 5th Place

Arya Suryanarayan - 7th Place

Amy He - 9th Place

Children's Literature

Annie DeFalco - 2nd Place

Declamation

Rajat Krishnan - 7th Place

Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking

Pradnya Cowlagi - 3rd Place

Vaishnavi Iyer - 4th Place

Novice Extemporaneous Speaking

Pranav Gundu - 2nd Place

Sanjay Pappu - 5th Place

Group Discussion 

Prabhav Sai Vadlamudi - 2nd Place

Original Oratory

Shamini Biju - 2nd Place

Diya Sankar - 3rd Place

Poetry Reading

Sabrina Welch - 2nd Place

Prose Reading

Sreshta Dittakavi - 4th Place

Special thanks to Brady McCue, our alumni coach, for leading the trip, and many thanks to the following parent judges: Gowtham Santhanam, Basanthi Satish, Amber Khan, Dilesh Naik, Zahra Sheikh, Rajeev Pappu, Ramprasad Gopalakrishnan, Masuma Khokhar, Lingtao Peng, Mumtaz Hasan, and Wei Lian.

Coming soon !

The Shrewsbury High School Speech and Debate team kicked off their season this weekend with a contingent of 19 students traveling to New Haven, CT for the Yale University Invitational. It was a very successful beginning to the season:

• Nuha Salam was the 2nd place overall in Oral Interpretation of Literature.

• Nuha was also 5th place overall in Dramatic Interpretation.

Other outstanding results included:

• Shamini Biju: Semi-finalist in Informative Speaking - Top 14

• Saketh Madhusudhan: Quarter-finalist in Original Oratory - Top 28

• Rajit Naik: Quarter-finalist in Original Oratory - Top 28

• William Prince: Quarter-finalist in Original Oratory - Top 28

In September, one of our JV Public Forum debate teams officially began the season with an online round robin tournament. Thanks to Srinivas Divakaruni for judging this first tournament of the season.