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Forensic Team

March

Congratulations SHS Forensic Team and Coach Bynum! At Districts Cornesia Jefferson and Drew Caldwell qualified for Nationals in Duo Interpretation and Emilee Anders and Meg Turlington qualified in Public Forum Debate! Team members who advance to the final round were Rohan Shilotri-4th place-United States Extemporaneous Speaking, Megan Tone- 5th Place-Humorous Interpretation, and Meg Turlington- 5th place-International Extemporaneous Speaking. Team members who advanced past the preliminary rounds include: Cynthia Chen/Samantha Jaeger- Public Forum Debate (Semis), Jared Marr-International Extemporaneous Speaking (Semis), Rishi Pandya-United States Extemporaneous Speaking (Semis), Tony Tran-Lincoln Douglas Debate (Quarters), JeVarus Howard/Jacob Young-Duo Interpretation (Quarters), Kaushal Vadhar-United States Extemporaneous Speaking (Quarters), Stephanie Hoo-United States Extemporaneous Speaking (Quarters) and Golsa Yazdy/Neda Mofrad-Public Forum Debate.

The Southside Speech and Debate Team took the 4th Place Sweepstakes Award at the SCFCA State Tournament March 3-5, 2006. Tournament award winners were Quarterfinalists Cynthia Chen/Samantha Jaeger - Public Forum; Semifinalists Neda Mofrad/Golsa Yazdy - Public Forum; Meg Turlington/Emilee Anders - Public Forum; Rohan Shilotri, Kaushal Vadhar, Rishi Pandya - US Extemp; Kaycee Jones - Poetry; Calvin Bryan - Dramatic Interpretation; Meera Mohan - Children's Literature; Finalists Neha Parthasarthy - 6th Place - Student Congress; Meera Mohan/Susi Wolff - 6th Place - Humorous Duo Interpretation; JeVarus Howard/Jacob Young - 6th Place - Dramatic Duo Interpretation; Jared Marr - 4th Place - Foreign Extemp; Megan Tone - 4th Place - Humorous Interpretation; Stephanie Hoo - 3rd Place - Student Congress; Cornesia Jefferson - 3rd Place - Poetry; Kristan Pitts - 2nd Place - Poetry; and State Champions - Dramatic Duo Interpretation Cornesia Jefferson/Drew Caldwell.

January

Congratulations to the Southside High School Forensic Team on their impressive second place sweepstakes win on Saturday, January 21, 2006 at Irmo High School in Columbia, South Carolina. The following team members received awards: Humorous Interpretation Megan Tone – 1st Place; Poetry Interpretation Kristan Pitts – 1st Place, Cornesia Jefferson – 3rd Place; Monticue (Lamar) Webb - 5th Place, Kaycee Jones – 6th Place; Duo Interpretation Kylie Glessman/Amaya Gunasekera – 1st Place; Drew Caldwell/Cornesia Jefferson – 2nd Place; Extemporaneous Speaking Rishi Pandya – 5th Place, Kaushal Vadhar – 6th Place ;Varsity Public Forum Debate Ishan Majumdar/Tony Tram – 6th Place; Children’s Literature Meera Mohan – 6th Place. Congratulations Coach Bynum!

December

Congratulations to the Southside High School Forensic Team on their overall third place sweepstakes win at the Riverside High School 2005 Warrior Speech and Debate Invitational. SHS placed third out of twenty schools from North and South Carolina. Humorous Interpretation: Megan Tone- 1st Place; Children's' Literature: Meera Mohan-1st Place, Susi Wolff- 2nd Place; Duo Interpretation: Drew Caldwell/ Cornesia Jefferson-2nd Place; Extemporaneous Speaking: Rohan Shiltori-2nd Place, Meg Turlington-3rd Place, Kaushal Vadhar-5th Place; Impromptu Speaking: Jared Marr-3rd Place; Lincoln- Douglas Debate- Daniel Birbal-4th Place and Public Forum Debate: Golsa Yadzy/Neda Mofrad-5th Place.

November

The Southside High School Forensic Team won second place overall at the First Annual Shamrock Invitational at Eau Claire High School in Columbia, South Carolina. The following students placed in the top six of the various events: Drew Caldwell/Cornesia Jefferson – 1st in Duo Interpretation, Tarsis Martins/Brenda Ibarra – 4th; Drew Caldwell – 2nd in Impromptu Speaking, Jared Marr – 5th; Cornesia Jefferson 4th in Oral Interpretation, Kristan Pitts – 5th; Jared Marr – 3rd in Extemporaneous Speaking, Emilee Anders – 5th and Rishi Pandya – 6th.

The Southside Speech and Debate Team, coached by Erickson Bynum, placed second overall out of 15 schools at the Pinecrest Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament in Southern Pines, N. C., Saturday, Nov. 5. In Oral Interpretation Kristan Pitts placed 1st and Monticue (Lamar) Webb, 2nd. Brandon Barber placed 3rd in Dramatic Interpretation and in Duo Interpretation, Drew Caldwell and Cornesia Jefferson took 2nd place and Theasha McCullough and Laeticia Williams placed 5th. Drew Caldwell and Cornesia Jefferson placed 4th and Theasha McCullough and Laeticia Williams placed 5th in Impromptu Duet Acting.

October 25, 2005

Congratulations goes out to the following students on their wins at the Asheville High School Forensics Tournament: Drew Caldwell and Cornesia Jefferson - 3rd Place in Duo Interpretation; Hieu (Tony) Tran - 3rd Place in Lincoln Douglas Debate; Elizabeth Pollard - Best Presiding Officer in Novice Student Congress

September 30, 2005

Congratulations to the Forensics Team for placing in the top 5% of NFL chapters nationwide and qualifying for the "200 Club" by the National Forensic League.