Congratulations to the Pride of Riverside for placing 5th in finals at Boiling Springs today! A hard group of bands in finals and these students brought it. A motivating finish leading into the programs first ever trip to a BOA Regional next week! 

Congratulations to the Riverside High School Speech and Debate Team for winning the Carolina Kickoff Novice Tournament held at Riverside on Saturday. In addition to winning the overall championship, several Riverside students won individual championships: Anamika Nair was a Double Champion in both  Impromptu Speaking & Extemporaneous Speaking. The team of Zoe Liney-Stantial & Yaazhini Sudherson won Duo Interpretation. Other champions include Keris Garcia in Children’s Literature and Sophia Sangronis in Dramatic Interpretation.  A complete list of RHS winners follows:

• Isabella Weavil, 2nd in Lincoln Douglas Debate

• Joseph Liu, 5th in Lincoln Douglas Debate

• Sriranjan Varanasi & Aneesh Prahalad, 3rd in Public Forum Debate

• Krithi Mohan & Kashvi Koyagura, 6th in Public Forum Debate

• Sarthak Sonker, 2nd in Congressional Debate

• Soliyana Abebe, 3rd in Congressional Debate

• Adith Reddy, 4th in Congressional Debate

• Keris Garcia,1st in Children’s Literature

• Olli Johnson, 2nd in Children’s Literature

• Yaazhini Sudherson, 5th in Children’s Literature

• Sophia Sangronis, 1st in Dramatic Interpretation

• Akshara Yuvaraj, 2nd in Dramatic Interpretation

• Viktoriia Krechkovska, 4th in Dramatic Interpretation

• Zoe Liney-Stantial, 5th in Dramatic Interpretation

• Lily Tang, 2nd in Humorous Interpretation

• Akhil Gopu, 3rd in Humorous Interpretation

• Tereasa Templeton, 4th in Humorous Interpretation

• Akshara Yuvaraj, 5th in Humorous Interpretation

• Gabrielle Dessertenne, 6th in Humorous Interpretation

• Zoe Liney-Stantial & Yaazhini Sudherson, 1st in Duo Interpretation

• Sophia Sangronis & Chase Fuller, 2nd in Duo Interpretation

• Anamika Nair, 1st in Impromptu Speaking

• Lily Tang, 4th in Impromptu Speaking

• Anamika Nair, 1st in Extemporaneous Speaking

• Gabrielle Dessertenne, 2nd in Extemporaneous Speaking

• Silvia Lopez-Africano, 2nd in Declamation

• Rania Gupta, 3rd in Declamation 

College Application Day - Many Riverside High School students applied to college this week during College Application Day. Thank you to those colleges and universities that were on campus to assist with the process.