Chattahoochee Cougar Classic

Chattahoochee High School has hosted the Cougar Classic each fall since the late 1990s. Over the years, it has grown to become a strong regional tournament that attracts competition from throughout the Southeast. Held in late September, it is typically the first big invitational on the Georgia policy debate schedule. (The tournament was hosted online by Marist in 2020 and 2021.)

Since 2006, Woodward has won nine Cougar Classic championships and has cleared 30 teams to the elimination rounds.

Octafinalists

Kiran Bhat & Kristen Rieck, 2006

Evan Matthews & Ravi Patel, 2006

Adel Haque & Chris Organ, 2006

Alex Duner & Nasir Nanjee, 2010

Max Abramson & Liliana Burgess, 2014

Utkarsh Pandey & Sahil Patel, 2014

Ali Abdullah & Arjun Srinivasan, 2015

Liliana Burgess & Myles Powell, 2015

Ethan Cheng & Crawford Kennedy, 2015

Elizabeth Li & Ria Thakur, 2020

Quarterfinalists

1998

Roshani Chokshi & Brittney Nehman, 2006

Max Abramson & Tripp Haskins, 2015

Mona Mahadevan & Malachi Robinson, 2016

Lorielle Georgetown & Sam Wombough, 2019

Elizabeth Li & Haarika Palacharla, 2021

Semifinalists

2000

Ali Abdullah & Arjun Srinivasan, 2016

Nishita Ghanate & Malachi Robinson, 2017

Nishita Ghanate & Sachi Reddy, 2019

Champions

Farhan Daredia & Aman Sharma, 2006

Amanda Kamor & Lina Skandalakis, 2006

Rahim Shakoor & Jason Sigalos, 2009

Rahim Shakoor & Jason Sigalos, 2010

Nasir Nanjee & Rahim Shakoor, 2011

Alex Duner & Karthik Srinivasan, 2011

Alex Duner & Karthik Srinivasan, 2012

Max Abramson & Tripp Haskins, 2016

Alanna Pearson & Arjun Srinivasan, 2017

Mona Mahadevan & Malachi Robinson, 2018

Ashna Ghanate & Sachi Reddy, 2020

Akbar Chranya & Jack Hightower, 2020

Top Speaker Awards

Jason Sigalos — Top Speaker, 2009

Tripp Haskins — Top Speaker, 2016

Malachi Robinson — Top Speaker, 2018

Amanda Kamor — 2nd Speaker, 2006

Jason Sigalos — 2nd Speaker, 2010

Arjun Srinivasan — 2nd Speaker, 2017

Mona Mahadevan — 2nd Speaker, 2018

Nishita Ghanate — 2nd Speaker, 2019

Rahim Shakoor — 3rd Speaker, 2011

Liliana Burgess — 3rd Speaker, 2015

Max Abramson — 3rd Speaker, 2016

Alanna Pearson — 3rd Speaker, 2017

Sachi Reddy — 3rd Speaker, 2019

Kristen Rieck — 4th Speaker, 2006

Karthik Srinivasan — 4th Speaker, 2012

Sachi Reddy — 4th Speaker, 2020

Lina Skandalakis — 5th Speaker, 2006

Nasir Nanjee — 5th Speaker, 2011

Karthik Srinivasan — 6th Speaker, 2011

Sahil Patel — 8th Speaker, 2013

Ashna Ghanate — 8th Speaker, 2020

Farhan Daredia — 9th Speaker, 2006

Adel Haque — 10th Speaker, 2006

Rahim Shakoor — 10th Speaker, 2010

Malachi Robinson — 10th Speaker, 2017

Evan Matthews — 11th Speaker, 2006

Alex Duner — 11th Speaker, 2012

Nishita Ghanate — 11th Speaker, 2018

Arjun Srinivasan — 12th Speaker, 2016

Jack Hightower — 12th Speaker, 2020

Myles Powell — 13th Speaker, 2015

Ali Abdullah — 14th Speaker, 2016

Alex Duner — 15th Speaker, 2011

Tripp Haskins — 15th Speaker, 2015

Sam Wombough — 15th Speaker, 2019

Akbar Chranya — 15th Speaker, 2020

Chris Organ — 17th Speaker, 2006

Liliana Burgess — 17th Speaker, 2014

Max Abramson — 18th Speaker, 2015

Sachi Reddy — 18th Speaker, 2018

Kiran Bhat — 20th Speaker, 2006

Myles Powell — 20th Speaker, 2014