Debate Students Qualify for State and National Tournaments

The Greenhill Speech and Debate Team closed out the first semester by celebrating a successful start to the season. In the first semester, they championed 25 tournaments, qualified 32 students for the Texas Forensic Association State Tournament, won 16 top speaker awards, and qualified 8 debaters for the National Championships!

The following students have qualified to TFA State (March 6-8, 2025):

• Neha Bachu ’25
• Saida Bidiwala ’25
• Jonaki Bose ’25
• Gautam Chamarthy ’25
• Prabath Girish ’25
• Varun Mukund ’25
• Ella Ou-Yang ’25
• Pranav Sreenivas ’25
• Aditi Vikram ’25
• Harris Xie ’25
• Sherry Zhang ’25
• Iliyan Ali ’26
• Benjy Beckman ’26
• Dhiya Hemchand ’26
• Maya Jagsi ’26
• Sarah Koshy ’26
• Rory Liu ’26
• Hasan Makhani ’26
• Dylan Millimet ’26
• Soyam Mohammed ’26
• Aytan Monet ’26
• Vijay Naidu ’26
• Quaid Oza ’26
• Josephina Qiu ’26
• Pratosh Raman ’26
• Yichen Shi ’26
• Paylin Barnes ’27
• Akash Bose ’27
• Carys Diamond ’27
• Raj Reddy ’27
• Mahedhar Sunkara ’27
• Marleigh Massoud ’28

The following students have qualified for at least one National Championship (these will take place in April):

• Neha Bachu ’25
• Gautam Chamarthy ’25
• Dhiya Hemchand ’26
• Sarah Koshy ’26
• Aaron Kuang ’26
• Rory Liu ’26
• Dylan Millimet ’26
• Pranav Sreenivas ’26

This semester, 107 students, including six middle school students and 39 ninth-grade students, have competed at least once.

We are excited to see what next semester brings!