Photo Celebration of the 2019-2020 Debate Season

Despite the challenges of the 2019-2020 season, there is still much to celebrate! The above gallery includes coach submitted photos of their teams throughout the debate season. Let us celebrate our debaters, our coach educators, and our community by taking a look back.

Celebrating our 5th and 8th grade debaters from the 2019-2020!

The cancellation of the final AUDL elementary tournament, and the Middle School State Championship tournament, is a disappointment shared by the entire AUDL community. The final tournaments aren’t just a culmination of a year’s worth of debate for our students, they also serve as an opportunity for us to celebrate our students, coaches, educators, and community members. While we will reschedule some of the celebration for the fall, we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge our 5th and 8th grade debaters from the 2019-2020 season who will hopefully debate next year in the middle school and high school divisions.

5th Grade Debaters

Cascade Elementary School - De'Aja Clark, Sa'Myia Canty, Safietou Ducure, Brianna Hinton-Brown, Aiden Hargrove, Diamond Long, Sanaya Thomas, Cassidy Canty, and Destiny Clark

Deerwood Academy - Janiya Alexander, J'Adore McRae, Eliza Germany, Jade Meyers, and Aaliyah Bosier

Destiny Christian Academy - Jermaine Hill, Xavier Seymour, and Jayla Simmons

Frank Lebby Stanton Elementary School Elementary School - Jeano Rick Holmes, Mckenzi Lee, Deandre Williams, and Naviya Christian

Heritage Academy - Viktoriyah Casilla, John Taylor, Micah Taylor, Joshua Thomas, Jaiden Tuggle, and Tre'Von Walker

Leonora Precious Miles Elementary School - Ke'Asia Gresham, Terriuna Walker, Donnell Maddox, Gabi McLarty, Jaidon Winfrey, Mariah Shaw, Jayda Bennett, and Ke'Mya Crumbley

The Main Street Academy - Phareed Baker, Tony Pryor, Ryan Houston, Dasaya White, Dasja Hines, Mikai Hall, Mckenzie Paul, Raelyn Rogers, Ma'Leah Forna, Jalen Hagans, Christian Carter, Taliah Jones, Chloe Byrd, Aniyah Shaw, and Alana Williams

Mary Lin Elementary School - Christian Liles, Brady Crep, Izzy Alexander, Eleanor Campbell, Aleksander Oliver, Dylan Seinberg, Tealacy Woods, Sadie Teras, Leila Yalew, and Jabari Burton

The Museum School - Jasira King, Amir Najm, Josiah Johnson, and Aaron Campbell

Parkside Elementary School - Kamaree Garrett, Henry Jones, Ellie Palermo, Enzo Palermo, Elliott Smith, Ke'land Austin, Sophie Finnegan, Allie Kirby, Gavin Mayr, Zachary Botz, Fletcher Howard, Juliet Morris, Donald Smith, Te'Asia Cheeks, Charlie Woodham, Mesiyah Jackson, Ryan Miller, Taequan Carter, Hasaun Logan, and Jacob Jackson

Sarah Smith Elementary School - Ann Cary, Corina Clark, Ro Flanagan, Urvini Naidu, Julia Straley, and Terrence Woodall

West Manor Elementary School - Brooke Lewis, Brooklyn Cardriche, Tyson Brown, Daniel Gadsden, Michael Hughley Jr., Patrick Fluellen, Alexis Simpson, Jaylah Benson, Sage Lewis, Morgan Scruggs, and Taliyah Jackson

8th Grade Debaters

Calhoun Middle School - Nathan Eickman, William Thompson, Stella Chumney, Danny Tate, Griffin Carpenter, and Mary Jane McKinnon

Chamblee Middle School - Daniel Luo, Ingrid Plemper, Sophia Shi, Lilliana Sandfort, and Matthew Wang

The Galloway School - Nolan Alexander, Ashaar Bakshi, Michael Blumenthal, Audrey Brown, Carter Davidson, Jeremy Gassman, Grant Howard, Jaelyn Jackson, Jonah Kaplan, Rukariro Mawokomatanda, Nikolas Rojanets, Grace Stuart, Liza Tewari and Hasita Yalamanchili

Hopewell Middle School - Harshita Agarwal, Shruti Alladi, Emma Dewey, Pace Gibbs, Anna Gorman, Micah Ingram, Grant Jordan, Rujula Khadri, Luke Kim, Manu Leburu, Tien Massengale, Kaley Massey, Sreenidhi Muppiri, Gabriela Pieterse, Lana Samy, Savir Sethi, Kendyll Siccitano, Mary Sippel, Clay Spencer, Dylan Zlatev, Athalia Wilson, and Natalie Wong-Martinez

Inman Middle School - Ramey Webb, Oscar Rivera, Tejas Duggirala, Shalin Bhatia, Millan Gupta, Lucas Santa Barbara, Drew Ulsh, Abby Hyken, and Charlie Suazo

KIPP South Fulton Academy - Xehara Pledger and Eliana DeChesere

The Main Street Academy - Jonathan Brown-Mcclary and Sierra Ellis

Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School - Alexis Hernandez-Tellez, Cameron Lewis, and Carlos Hernandez

Paul D. West Middle School - Ca'Marion Cooper, JaMarria Washington, Alicia Ortiz, Jaylen Butts, and Joseph Pierce

Renfroe Middle School - Maggie Stearns, Hannah Younkins, Sophie Fehl, Zara Jenkins, Emma Xuan, Olaoluwe Oguneye, Mance Irvin, Lilia Goldberg, and Smilia Ekpfadt

River Trail Middle School - Shayan Ahmed, Pranav Balasubramaniam, Pratyush Chakraborty, Brad Chuo, Sudhish Darsipudi, Asmita Das, Ruhi Doddamani, Zidan Gadne, Srikar Gandikota, Ashley Heo, Rishi Jeyamurthy, Anusha Kanagaraj, Dharshini Kannan, Ella Lazar, Kate Li, Charvi Mahendra, Sricharvi Mannam, Swathi Muruganandan, Vikram Gokhale, Ayush Potdar, Tanish Potula, Shivangi Ranjan, Akhila Rao, Rohit Rao, Saachi Shah, Zoya Shariff, Michelle Su, Geethanjali Thota, Navaja Varma, and Anjali Yagnavajhala

Saint John the Evangelist Catholic School - Daniel Nguyen, Franklin Vo, Ryan Simmons, Soncera Adams, Laura Okoli, Alfredo Cortes, Abby Wheeler, Brennan Baudy, and Jackie Vu

Sequoyah Middle School - Michelle Villanueva Carballo, Rabita Parves, Nuzhat Nuhu, Katherine Franco Bernal, and Christina Yang

South Forsyth Middle School - Armaan Bhasin, Krisha Gelli, Maina Karnala, Krishna Shakthi, Priyal Maheshwari, Rashi Moody, Ananya Putta, Raghunath Raghav, Aneesha Rayalla, Pranavi Suthari, Fransisco Valentinotti Pavon, Trisha Vemulapalli, and Sophia Zhao

Sutton Middle School - Kenzie Eden, Sairah Sethi, Tabby Smith, Annie Lin, Will Lazarus, Terrance Adams, Jackson Young, Luke McCullough, Ryder Zufi, Yakov Vinnik, and Dinesh Oggu

Woodward Academy - Rishi Agrawal, Smith Daniel, Walker Daniel, Andrew Hines, Sophia Kaye, Seth Jackson, Emma Layton, Jacob Lemene, Damon Nasser, Caden Morris, Alizah Mudaliar, Anjana Murthy, Sonwoo Morgan Park, Aneri Patel, and Andrew Winsberg

Celebrating our graduation seniors from the 2019-2020!

We would like to congratulate all of our graduating seniors, and welcome you as members to the Atlanta Urban Debate alumni community.

Charles R. Drew Charter School - Maddox Gates

Decatur High School - Adam Parent-Herzog, Cole Baker, Dylan Freireich, Ryan Miller, Tannus Vollmer, and Will Pruett

Henry W. Grady High School - Assat Nkosi and Daniel Wakefield

KIPP Atlanta Collegiate - Tynia Baker, Ty Barnett, and RJ Terry

New Manchester High School - Alexis Alejo, Te'Yannie Ballard, Jalen Lovejoy, Brian McGhee, and David McKinney

Pebblebrook High School - Queenstar Mensah, Raja White, Tracy Dumakor, Emuesiri Edafemuoke, Joycelyn Ofori, Nithaelle Poinvil, Mildolynn Tawiah, and Brooklyn Willis

Rockdale County High School - Taijah Clark

South Gwinnett High School - Josiah Van, Esther Ndewa, Langston Terry, and Jalen Smallwood

Westlake High School - Samuel Johnson and Nina Simone Warner