Plano ISD congratulates students from Plano West Senior High School, Plano East Senior High School\u00a0and Plano Senior High School for their exceptional performances at the Texas Forensic Association\u2019s State Championship Tournament in Prosper, Texas. The statewide event brought together 176\u00a0schools and more than 1,400 students to compete across multiple debate and speech categories.<\/p>\n
Second Place Overall in State<\/p>\n
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Congressional Debate<\/p>\n
Amaan Fahim \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Rishabh Mehta \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Roshan Shivnani \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Anahita Tomar \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Jennifer Duan \u2013 Finalist, 15th place out of 173 competitors<\/p>\n
Duo Interpretation<\/p>\n
Rania Azizah & Puja Tirumuru \u2013 Quarterfinalists<\/p>\n
Catherine Cockrell & Anika Cherukuri \u2013 Semifinalists<\/p>\n
Joshua Wu & Sulaiman Ilyas \u2013 Quarterfinalists<\/p>\n
Humorous Interpretation<\/p>\n
Impromptu Speaking<\/p>\n
Informative Speaking<\/p>\n
International Extemporaneous Speaking<\/p>\n
Varshini Arun \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Kaitlyn Fan \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Eric Qian \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Ryan Xu \u2013 Finalist, 3rd place in state<\/p>\n
Lincoln-Douglas Debate<\/p>\n
Ryan Chang \u2013 Elimination rounds<\/p>\n
Skanda Gopikannan \u2013 Elimination rounds<\/p>\n
Zayd Mahmud \u2013 Elimination rounds<\/p>\n
Angel Ribo \u2013 Semifinalist, Top Speaker and State Champion<\/p>\n
Navid Sheybani \u2013 Elimination rounds<\/p>\n
Original Oratory<\/p>\n
Public Forum Debate<\/p>\n
Aayush Appan & Yang Bai \u2013 Top 14 finishers<\/p>\n
Arjun Elango & Aashna Bhakkad \u2013 Elimination round qualifiers<\/p>\n
James Chen & Collin Cui \u2013 Elimination round qualifiers<\/p>\n
Goutham Ronanki & Albert Luo \u2013 Elimination round qualifiers<\/p>\n
Crystal Wong & Jenna Lee \u2013 Elimination round qualifiers<\/p>\n
Jessica Zhang & Esther Zhao \u2013 Elimination round qualifiers<\/p>\n
Jessica Zhang \u2013 2nd Place Speaker<\/p>\n
Goutham Ronanki and Rishya Vemireddy \u2013 Top 10 Speakers<\/p>\n
United States Extemporaneous Speaking<\/p>\n
Seniors\u00a0Rehan Buvvaji\u00a0and\u00a0Roshan Shivnani\u00a0capped off a historic season as top competitors at four major national tournaments. At TFA State, Buvvaji finished 3rd overall, while Shivnani was crowned State Champion, reclaiming a title last held by Plano West in 2023. The Wolfpack finished second overall in the state.<\/p>\n
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10th Place Overall in State<\/p>\n
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Congressional Debate<\/p>\n
Aakash Arulkumaran \u2013 2nd place<\/p>\n
Advait Boyanapalli \u2013 Qualifier, Outstanding Presiding Officer<\/p>\n
Aariz Inamdar \u2013 Qualifier<\/p>\n
Ashwin Goel \u2013 Qualifier<\/p>\n
Ashraf Kuzbari \u2013 7th place, Outstanding Presiding Officer<\/p>\n
Sanjeev Gedela \u2013 Qualifier<\/p>\n
Tarwat Chowdhury \u2013 Qualifier<\/p>\n
Varshini Arulkumaran \u2013 Qualifier<\/p>\n
Duo Interpretation<\/p>\n
Humorous Interpretation<\/p>\n
Impromptu Speaking<\/p>\n
Aariz Inamdar \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Sanjeev Gedela \u2013 7th place<\/p>\n
Varshini Arulkumaran \u2013 Quarterfinalist<\/p>\n
Informative Speaking<\/p>\n
International Extemporaneous Speaking<\/p>\n
Original Oratory<\/p>\n
Public Forum Debate<\/p>\n
United States Extemporaneous Speaking<\/p>\n
Angelo Ferris \u2013 5th place<\/p>\n
Samedh Davuluri \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Tarwat Chowdhury \u2013 Quarterfinalist<\/p>\n
Noah Rahman \u2013 Quarterfinalist<\/p>\n
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17th Place Overall in State<\/p>\n
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Congressional Debate<\/p>\n
Dhruv Arun \u2013 13th place<\/p>\n
Zidan Kutub \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Lawson Leblanc \u2013 Semifinalist<\/p>\n
Dramatic Interpretation<\/p>\n
Humorous Interpretation<\/p>\n
Informative Speaking<\/p>\n
International Extemporaneous Speaking<\/p>\n
Original Oratory<\/p>\n
Program Oral Interpretation<\/p>\n
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Congratulations to all three senior high schools for this year’s remarkable achievements. Plano ISD extends our appreciation to each student, coach and sponsor for their hard work, dedication and continued commitment to excellence in speech and debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano ISD congratulates students from Plano West Senior High School, Plano East Senior High School\u00a0and Plano Senior High…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,2610,161,2609],"class_list":{"0":"post-224242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-independent-school-district","11":"tag-plano-news","12":"tag-posts-details-default-board-post-page"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}