NFL Districts
On April 17 and 18 Kerr’s debaters traveled to Elsik High School. Our Kerr debaters worked really hard all weekend long and came back to school on Monday with:
Joshua Tang in 1st place LD
And 2nd place in Domestic Extemp
And Also
Christine Umeh and Jessie Ho in 1st place Alternate spot in CX
January 13-14, 2009
Kerr Success at the Churchill TOC
A travel travel squad of five debaters bring back awards from the prestigious Winston Churchill tournament in San Antonio, January 6-6,2009.
Results:
Student Congress (TOC) – Micheal Kebede – 7th Place Finalist
Novie Policy Debate: Jessie Ho & Cameron Clark- 3rd Place
Novie Lincoln Douglas Debate: Jay Meza – Quarter-finalist (Top 8!)
Foriegn Extempt: Joshua Tang – Semi-finalist (TOC Bid)
January 6-7, 2009
Katy Debate Success!
Katy Award Winners:
Varsity LD Debate: Christina Phan – 2nd Place Finalist
Policy Debate: Nick Chan & Nancy Troung – Semi-finalist (Top 4!)
Silvia Chicas & Christine Umeh – Quarter-finalist (Top 8!)
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January 6-7, 2009
1st Place Victory at Westfield!

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Kerr Speech and Debate started the Fall 08 Season out by taking 1st Sweeps at Elsik, and repeated the feat by taking 1st Sweeps out of 38 schools at Westfield this weekend.
Not only did we continue our debate dominance, but added some great IE accomplishments as Peter Ton became our 1st every HI State qualifier!
All of these students are well deserving of our praise.
Results from Westfield:
Joshua Tang
-1st CLD
-1st place CLD speaker
Peter Ton
-1st HI (qualled in HI)
Michael Kebede
-2nd Congress (qualled in Congress)
Nicholas Chan
-2nd in NX
-4th in NPO
Sean Tecson
-2nd NPO
Christine Umeh
-Quarterfinalist CCX (2 State Points)
-3rd place CCX Speaker
-POI finalist
Silvia Chicas
-Quaterfinalist CCX (2 State Points)
-4th place CCX Speaker
Jessie Ho
-1st place NCX
– NX Finalist
Dennis Chau
-1st place NCX
Nancy Truong
-NX Finalist
Brian Ng
-1st place NLD
Phina Uzowulu
– broke in NLD
Jovaugh Jackson
– broke in NLD
Cameron and Frances
– Quarterfinalist for NCX
1st-place-sweeps out of 38 schools!
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Kerr Speech & Debate - team of champions
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- Dennis Chau and Jessie Ho – Quarters in NCX (top 8!)
- Michael Kebede – Semis in SC
- Joshua Tang – Octos in LD
- Nicholas Chan: 1st in NPR
- Ayesha Malik: 3rd in NX
- Jay Meza: Quarters
- Joshua Tang: Quarters in
- Cameron Clark: 1st Place Speaker Award in NCX
- Joshua Tang: 1st in VLD
- Joshua Tang: 1st in DX
- Ayesha Malik and Nicholas Chan: Quarters in CCX
- Joshua Tang reached Double Octos at a TOC-level tournament!
Hastings – TFA: October 17-18, 2008
- Thuan Nguyen: 4th in SC, qualling for state in SC!
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Almayra Porrata: 1st in LD
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Crystal Le & Josh Tang: 1st inCX
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Muskan Agarwal & Suveda Perikala: 3rd in CX
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Jesse Ho & Dennis Chau: 4th in CX
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OO: 7th LD
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Brian Ng: 8th LD
University of Houston – TFA: October 4-5, 2008
Our 4-Person travel squad picked up 6 trophies!
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Peter Ton: 1st in NHI & 3rd in NPR
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Jovaugh Jackson: Quarter-finals in NLD
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Thuan Nguyen: 3rd in Student Congress
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Jessie Ho: 4th in Student Congress
Joshua Tang – 1st DX Qualifier in Alief!
Ainee Athar – 1st SC Qualifier in Houston!
Elsik NGC – TFA: Sept. 27-28, 2008
3rd place sweepstakes at Elsik!
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Dennis Chau and Jessie Ho: 1st in NCX
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Annie Pham and Destiny Cannon: 2nd in NCX
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Muskan Agarwal and Suveyda Perikala: 3rd in NCX
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Cameron Clark and Frances Ogbunamiri: 3rd in NCX
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Annie Pham: 1st place Speaker Award in NCX
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Dennis Chau: 2nd place Speaker Award in NCX
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Jessie Ho: 3rd place Speaker Award in NCX
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Ainee Athar: 2nd in SC
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Thuan Nguyen: 4th in SC
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Joshua Tang: 2nd in DX
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Dennis Chau: 4th in NX
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Nicholas Chan: 5th in NX
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Silvia Chicas: 6th in NX
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Dennis Chau: 1st in PO
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Thuan Nguyen: 6th in OO
Elsik – TFA – Sept. 7-8, 2008
1st place sweepstakes at Elsik!
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Christine Umeh and Nancy Truong: quarter-finals in VCX
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Dennis Chau and Jessie Ho: 1st in NCX
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Annie Pham and Destiny Cannon: 2nd in NCX
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Muskan Agarwal and Suveyda Perikala: 3rd in NCX
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Cameron and Bao Trinh: 3rd in NCX
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Annie Pham: 1st place speaker award in NCX
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Dennis Chau: 2nd place speaker award in NCX
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Jessie Ho: 3rd place speaker award in NCX
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Joshua Tang: 2nd place in VLD
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Ainee Athar: 2nd in SC
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Michael Kebede: 3rd in SC
Hello speech and debate students of kerr,
I think you all did wonderfully teriffically great job.
I especially want to congratulate my long lost sister Suveda Perikala (noing a great job notice that perikala and rekalipa have the exact same letters :D) on doing a great job making third place three times…along with her friendable Muskan.
Hey, I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog!…..I”ll be checking in on a regularly now….Keep up the good work! 🙂