2023 National Online Forensics High School Championship Results
Congratulations to all the competitors at the 2023 High School Championships! We had 25 high school programs from around the country compete . Read on below to see the award winners.
View the awards ceremony on YouTube.
Special congratulations to the following programs for winning sweepstakes:
Team Sweepstakes:
1st: Harvard-Westlake 🏆
2nd: Velasquez Academy
3rd: Speech & Debate Institute
4th: ModernBrain
5th: Athens Debate
Individual Event Sweepstakes
1st: Erin Ryu (Harvard-Westlake) 🏆
2nd: Molly Block (Harvard-Westlake)
3rd: Phi Chanda (The Golden State Academy)
4th: Maxwell Furberg (Velasquez Academy)
5th: Ellie Sohn (Speech & Debate Institute)
And here are the winners from the tournament!
(🏆 = National Champion, top ranked speaker)
Impromptu
Bronze ModernBrain Maddie Delbridge
Bronze Nova 42 Academy Jada Yang
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Ellie Sohn
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Olivia Tan
Silver Velasquez Academy Angela Yang
Gold 🏆 ModernBrain Nicole Hou
Informative
Bronze ModernBrain Kelly Liu
Bronze Velasquez Academy Angela Yang
Silver Speech & Debate Institute Chloe Chong
Gold 🏆 Harvard-Westlake Erin Ryu
Persuasive
Bronze Able2Shine Kevin Jiang
Bronze Cogito Debate Avery Chang
Bronze Liangyi Youth Leadership Vanessa Liu
Bronze QD Learning Ivy Zhang
Silver The Golden State Academy Phi Chanda
Gold 🏆 RISE Academy Zahra Sabri
Prose-Poetry
Silver Harvard-Westlake Erin Ryu
Gold 🏆 Harvard-Westlake Kayla Ring
Storytelling
Silver Harvard-Westlake Molly Block
Gold 🏆 Harvard-Westlake William Lin
Interp
Bronze Harvard-Westlake Kayla Ring & William Lin
Bronze Rhyme and Reason Speech and Debate Solaine Bardin
Bronze Velasquez Academy Jerry Yang
Bronze Velasquez Academy Jerry Yang
Silver Harvard-Westlake Angela Ren
Gold 🏆 Harvard-Westlake Molly Block
Declamation
Bronze ModernBrain Maitland Wais
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Arhana Desai
Silver ModernBrain Krishnni Khanna
Gold 🏆 The Golden State Academy Phi Chanda
SPAR
Bronze Cogito Debate Avery Chang
Bronze ModernBrain Kelly Liu
Bronze Velasquez Academy Arya Shah
Silver Cogito Debate Jackie Humenik
Gold Velasquez Academy Maxwell Furberg
Gold 🏆 Athens Debate Yesh Rao
NOF Parli
Bronze Cogito Debate Kyle Alexander & Marcus Chien
Bronze Rhyme and Reason Speech and Debate Elena Grilli & Solaine Bardin
Silver Cogito Debate Avery Chang & Jackie Humenik
Gold iLearn Education Spencer Lee & Thomas Xiao
Public Forum
Gold Nova 42 Academy Nathan Cho & Phoebe Lee
LD - Top 3 Speakers
3 Athens Debate Aditya Anand
2 Project Dialogue Academy Owen Xuan
1 Academy of Higher Learning Shashwat Mantha
LD
Bronze Academy of Higher Learning Madison Lee
Bronze Academy of Higher Learning Shashwat Mantha
Bronze Athens Debate Ben Han
Bronze QD Learning Claire Song
Silver Academy of Higher Learning Soren Jensen
Silver Athens Debate Aditya Anand
Gold Athens Debate Yesh Rao
Gold Project Dialogue Academy Owen Xuan
Extemp
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Justin Lin
Bronze Velasquez Academy Maxwell Furberg
Silver Speech & Debate Institute Ellie Sohn
Gold 🏆 Harvard-Westlake Nilufer Mistry Sheasby
Original Interp
Silver Harvard-Westlake Erin Ryu
Gold. 🏆 La Reina Ava Behjat