A historic day for the Pride of Riverside Band Program! Not only did we attend our first ever BOA event and make finals, but we are in awe of placing 6th in finals competition. This band has been raising the standard and it is just getting better every day! 

Congratulations to the Riverside High School Speech & Debate Team for winning the 2025 North Mecklenburg Viking Classic Speech and Debate Tournament held at North Mecklenburg High School in Huntersville, N.C. The event featured competition from 413 high school students representing 21 schools and two states. In addition to winning the overall sweepstakes award several students won individual championships: Keris Garcia in Novice Reading, Cata Jara Parada in Humorous Interpretation, Tanvi Chelasani in Original Oratory, Kenneth Zalewski in Extemporaneous Speaking, Juliana Lopez Africano in Program Oral Interpretation, Adith Reddy in Novice House Congressional Debate, Enyo Toklo in Expository Speaking, and the team of Artem Feno and Sash Sivaraman won Duo Interpretation. A complete list of Riverside winners follows:

• Akshara Yuvaraj, 3rd in Children’s Literature

• Mikel Eguiraun, 5th in Children’s Literature

• Keris Garcia, 1st in Novice Reading

• Akshara Yuvaraj, 2nd in Novice Reading

• Silvia Lopez Africano, 3rd in Novice Reading

• Reese Templeton, 5th in Novice Reading

• Gabrielle Dessertenne, 6th in Novice Reading

• Brooke Stuart, 2nd in Declamation

• Charline Monnier, 2nd in Dramatic Interpretation

• Ben Lin, 4th in Dramatic Interpretation

• Enyo Toklo, 5th in Dramatic Interpretation

• Cata Jara Parada, 1st in Humorous Interpretation

• Devon Becker, 2nd in Humorous Interpretation

• Mikel Eguiraun, 3rd in Humorous Interpretation

• Fox Vickery, 4th in Humorous Interpretation

• Artem Feno, 5th in Humorous Interpretation

• Artem Feno and Sash Sivaraman, 1st in Duo Interpretation

• Avi Bhatia and Fox Vickery, 4th in Duo Interpretation

• Cetanaa Ramanathan and Devon Becker, 6th in Duo Interpretation

• Enyo Toklo, 1st in Expository Speaking

• Claudia Lee, 3rd in Expository Speaking

• Viktoriia Krechkovska, 4th in Expository Speaking

• Kenneth Zalewski, 1st in Extemporaneous Speaking

• Sashwath Sivaraman, 2nd in Extemporaneous Speaking

• Tanvi Chelasani, 3rd in Extemporaneous Speaking

• Greta Kriston, 6th in Informative Speaking

• Tanvi Chelasani, 1st in Original Oratory

• Pranita Kata, 2nd in Original Oratory

• Aahanna Das, 3rd in Original Oratory

• Kenneth Zalewski, 4th in Original Oratory

• Stephanie Duan, 6th in Original Oratory

• Juliana Lopez Africano, 1st in Program Oral Interpretation

• Brooke Stuart, 2nd in Program Oral Interpretation

• Avi Bhatia, 3rd in Program Oral Interpretation

• Eli Golob, 4th in Program Oral Interpretation

• Cata Jara, 5th in Program Oral Interpretation

• Adith Reddy, 1st in Novice House Congressional Debate

• Soliyana Abebe, 4th in Novice House Congressional Debate

• Sarthak Sonker, 2nd in Novice Senate Congressional Debate

• Samhitha Kalluri, 6th in Novice Senate Congressional Debate

• Ethan Alexander, 7th in Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate

• Shaurya Srivastava, 4th, Varsity Lincoln Douglas Debate

• Anamika Nair and Lily Kate Porterfield, 2nd in Novice Public Forum Debate

• Sriranjan Varanasi and Aneesh Prahalad, 6th in Novice Public Forum Debate