2022TOC National Middle School Debate and SpeechTournament (5/13-15/2022)

Leetyan Chen and Jerry Zeng --- Doubles Finalists in PF Division

Anna YI and Bryan Wang --- Triples Finalists in PF Division

Aaron Wang --- TRiples Finalists in LD Division

Bryan Wang --- second place best speaker award (out of 423 debaters)

Anna Yi -- 7th place best speaker award (out of 423 debaters)

All Sugar Land SpiderSmart debaters won at least three rounds in the preliminary contests - this sets a team record at the national level debate tournament. 

2022 Texas Middle School Speech and Debate State Tournament (4/1-2/2022)

Leetyan Chen and Jerry Zeng --- Texas State Championship in Public Forum event

Jason Chen --- Second place in Lincoln-Douglas event

Brandon Lin -- Third place in impromptu speaking event

Praveen Kothapalli -- Sixth Place in impromptu speaking event

Edward Kang -- Semifinalist in impromptu speaking event

Sugar Land SpiderSmart Won 5th place overall best achieving school award in the State of Texas -- We are the only private institution that won the top five ranks.

Aaron Wang -- Quarterfinalist in Middle School LD Division

Bryan Wang and Emmanuel Wang -- Quarterfinalist in Middle School PF Division

Impromptu Speaking

Ethan Gao --- Semifinalist

Edward Kang -- Semifinalist

Public Forum Debate

Alicia Gu/Kathryn Wu -- 3rd Place Award

Jenny Wu/Pingkang Qian -- Quarterfinalists

Nathan Fan/Hriday Sakaria - Quarterfinalists

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Khushi Patel -- Quarterfinalist

Anna Yi/Bryan Wang (7-1) Top 16 among 283 Middle School Public Forum Teams.

Aditya Krishna Puppal/Curtis Tan (4-2): Triples Finalists

Champion: Meenakshi Sivanandam/Tanvi Chinnachalli (4-0)

Second Place (Tied) : Jason Li/Luke Shan (3-1), Jerry Mao/Nathan Wang (3-1) and Kathryn Wu/Alicia Gu (3-1)

Leetyan Chen/Jerry Zeng -- 2nd place PF High School Junior Varsity Division

Lewen Feng/Emmanuel Wang -- 3rd place PF High School Novice Division

Jerry Zeng -- 1st place Best Speaker Award

Lewen Feng - 3rd place Best Speaker Award

Leetyan Chen -- 5th place Best Speaker Award

Jason Chen -- Champ High School  LD Junior Varsity Division

Jason Chen -- 2nd place Best Speaker Award

Leetyan Chen/Lewen Feng -- 2nd place High School NPF Division

Jerry Zeng/Bryan Wang -- Quarterfinalists High School NPF Division

Leetyan Chen -- 3rd place Speaker Award

Lewen Feng - 4th place Best Speaker

Bryan Wang -- 5th place Best Speaker

Jason Chen -- 2nd place High School NLD Division

Jason Chen -- 2nd place Speaker Award

Anna Yi/Cindy Lu -- 3rd place MSPF Open Division

Aditya Krishna Puppala/Abhiram Pavuluri -- 4th place MSPF Open Division

Aditi Vadassery/Sophia Liu Champion

Luke Shan/Nathan Wang  2nd place

Katelyn Hu/Sai Gangu  3rd place

Jenny Wu/Jeffery Wei  3rd place

Celina Zhao 1st place speaker award

Sophia Liu 2nd place speaker award

Luke Shan 3rd place speaker award

Nathan Wang 4th place speaker award

Jenny Wu 5th place speaker award

Jerry Zeng and  Bryan Wang -- 2nd place Middle School PF division

Anna Yi and Scarlett Yu -- Otcofinalist Middle School PF division

Anna Yi -- 2nd place speaker award

Scarlett Yu -- 3th place speaker award

Jerry Zeng -- 4th place speaker award

Jason Chen -- 3rd place Middle School LD division

Jason Chen -- 2nd place best speaker award

Aditya Puppala/ Cutis Tan -- 1st place Middle School PF division

Elementary School Impromptu Speech:

Aarav Ancha: Champion

Brandon Xia: 2nd Place

Middle School Impromptu Speech

Brandon Lin: 2nd Place

Kateky Hu: 4th Place

Andy Hao -- Champion in NLD division

Jason Chen-- Quarterfinalist in NLD division

Jason Chen -- 2nd place NLD Best Speaker Award

Andy Hao -- 5th place NLD Best Speaker Award 

Anna Yi/Scarlett Yu -- Champion in NPF division

Scarlett Yu -- 6th place NPF Best speaker Award

Anna Yi -- 7th place NPF Best speaker Award

Leetyan Chen and Lewen Feng quarterfinalists

Jerry Zeng won 5th place in best speaker awards

Andy Hao -- 3rd place NLD division

Sherine Liu-- 7rd place NLD Best Speaker Award 

Anna Yi/Scarlett Yu -- Quarterfinlists in NPF division

Scarlett Yu -- 4th place NPF Best speaker Award

Leetyan Chen and Lewen Feng won 9th place (5-1 records in preliminary rounds)

Jerry Zeng and Bryan Wang won 17th place (4-2 records in preliminary rounds)

Leetyan won 17th place in the best speaker awards (out of more than 100 debaters)

Leetyan Chen and Lewen Feng quarterfinalist 

Anna Yi and Scarlett Yu quarterfinalist

Jerry Zeng and Bryan Wang quarterfinalist

Lewen Feng 1st place best speaker award

Leetyan Chen 4th place best speaker award

Chen Wang and Brian Liu won the third place award (out of 246 PF teams) 

Sherry Huang and Rosie Hong won five rounds and broke into the elimination rounds.

Jerry Zeng and Bryan Wang won four rounds

Leetyan Chen and Helen Zhang won three rounds

Anne Chen and Oliver Zhang  won three rounds

Andrew Lian and Zitong Wang won three rounds

Ellen Li and Scarlett Yu won three rounds

Helen Mao and Megan Wu won three rounds

Lewen Feng and Alexander Xu won three rounds

Amaani Raunia and Ayushi Kasotia won three rounds

Tanvi Chinnahalli & Daniel Pan -- champion
Curtis Tan & Alice Li  -- the second place 
Taiwen Feng & Yu Wang  -- the third place
Lucas Liu & Hannah Hsu -- the third place

Jerry Zeng and  Bryan Wang --- Champion
Chen Wang and Brian Liu -- the second place

Lewen Feng and Alexander Xu --- the third place

Ellen Li and Scarlett Yu --- the sixth place

Chen Wang and Brian Liu --- quarterfinalists
Sherry Huang and Rosie Hong -- broke into elimination rounds

Sherry Huang -- #6 best speaker award (out of 150 PF debaters)

Rosie Hong -- #16 best speaker award (out of 150 PF debaters)

Jerry Pang and Emmanuel Wang -- Champion
Ayushi Kasotia and Kathleen Yan -- 2nd Place Winner

Daniel Pan and Tanvi Chinnahalli  -- 3rd Place Winner

Yu Wang and Taiwen Feng --- 3rd Place Winner 

Sherry Huang and Rosie Hong -- Octas Finalists
Jerry Zeng and Bryan Wang -- broke into the elimination rounds

Chen Wang and Brian Liu -- Quarter Finalists in high school PF open division 

Helen Zhang/Leetyan Chen -- broke into the elimination round

Helen Zhang -- #32 speaker awards (out of 352 middle school PF debaters) 

Leetyan Chen -- #34 speaker awards (out of 352 middle school PF debaters)

Brian Liu and Chen Wang placed 17th (out of 281 PF teams)
 

Sherry Huang and Rosie Hong placed 17th (out of 281 PF teams)
 

Megan Wu and Helen Mao broke into the elimination rounds

Andrew Lian and Ray Tian broke into the elimination rounds

Jerry Zeng and Bryan Wang broke into the elimination rounds

Helen Mao ranked #42 in speaker award (out of 562 debaters)

Sugar Land SpiderSmart debate team ranked #3 for the number of PF teams breaking into the MSPF elimination rounds

Jerry Zeng/Bryan Wang -- 2nd place NPF division 

Bryan Liu/Chen Wang -- Quarterfinalists NPF division

Anne Chen/Zitong Wang -- Quarterfinalists NPF division

Chen Wang --- Best Speaker in NPF division

Jenny Wu (5th grade) -- Quarterfinalist in impromptu speaking 

Chen Wang/Brian Liu -- 3rd place NPF division

Sherry Huang/Rosie Hong -- 3rd place NPF division

Jerry Zeng and Bryan Wang -- Quarterfinalists NPF division 

Lewen Feng and Alexander Xu -- 3rd place NPF division

Ellen Li and Scarlett Yu  -- Quarterfinalists NPF division

Oliver Zhang and Ethan Li --  Quarterfinalists NPF division

Helen Zhang and Saesha Loonker --  Quarterfinalists NPF division

Alexander Xu -- 3rd best speaker

Helen Zhang -- 5th best speaker

Ethan Li -- 7th best speaker

Ellen Li -- 8th best speaker 

Oliver Zhang -- 9th best speaker

Leetyan Chen -- 10th best speaker

Jenny Wu (5th grade) -- 3rd place in impromptu speaking

Joylin Qin  (5th grade)-- 5th place in impromptu speaking

Edward Kang (5th grade) -- 7th place in impromptu speaking

Sugar Land SpiderSmart team won 9th place sweepstakes award (out of 18 schools) 

Sherry Huang and Rosie Hong -- Champion NPF division 

Lewen Feng and Ethan Li -- 3rd place  NPF division

Cathy Sui and Ayushi Kasotia -- 3rd place NPF division

Chen Wang/Brian Liu -- Champion NPF division 

Jerry Zeng and Bryan Wang --  7th place NPF division

Chen Wang and Rosie Hong -- 3rd place NPF division 

Andrew Lian and Leetyan Chen -- Quarterfinalists NPF division

Chen Wang/Brian Liu -- 2nd place middle school open PF division

Sherry Huang and Rosie Hong  -- Quarterfinalists middle school open PF division

Lewen Feng and Alexander Xu -- Quarterfinalists middle school novice PF division

Brian Liu -- 5th place speaker award (out of 142 debaters)

Sherry Huang -- 8th place speaker award (out of 142  debaters)

Rosie Hong -- 10th place speaker award (out of 142 debaters)

Our students won a total of 33 rounds of contest.

Chen Wang and Brian Liu  -- Quarterfinalists JVPF division 

Brian Liu -- 6th place speaker award (out of 96 debaters)

Sherry Huang and Rosie Hong  -- Quarterfinalists middle school open PF division 

Sherry Huang -- 13th place speaker award (out of 110 debaters)