At GGSA tournaments, congress competitors earn plaques by finishing in the top 5 in their group and debate competitors earn trophies for winning records.
At invitationals and the State Championships, all competitors advancing out of preliminary rounds receive appropriate awards.
2025-26
GGSA CONGRESS, Windemere MS
Maximus Luan, 1st Place
Savir Gill, 4th Place
Oliver Lai, 6th
Abay Bathla
2024-25
CHSSA Middle School State Championships
CONGRESS
Fred Zhang, 3rd
Aashika Cheruvu, 5th
Isabella Yang, 6th
Sanhita Chava, 7th
Eva Dhungana, 12th
Kimaya Kadkol, Semis
Chelsea Gu, Semis
Maximus Luan, Semis
Nico Buck, Semis
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE
Aashini Ashok, triple octas
Andrew Zhang, triple octas
Windemere Congress Tournament (top 7 earned medals)
Moksha Menta, 1st Place & Best PO
Sanhita Chava, 1st Place & Best PO
Isabella Yang, 1st Place
Ryan Sung, 2nd Place
Kimaya Kadkol, 2nd Place
Savir Gill, 3rd Place
Devang Nair, 3rd Place
Fred Zhang, 3rd Place
Eshar Dhaliwal, 4th Place
Vainav Muthuraman, 5th Place
Abhay Bathla, 5th Place
Nico Buck, 6th Place
Arsh Mathur, 7th Place
Eliezer Kumar-Lau, 7th Place
Congress 3 / Debate 3, Santa Rosa JC
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Sweekruti Kulkarni, 3-0
Moksha Menta, 3-0
Andrew Zhang, 2-1
Public Forum Debate
Eva Dhungana / Olivia Sandy, 3-0
Aishani Chabra / Saina Shetty, 2-1
Parliamentary Debate
Rishaan Rupareliya / Zander Tu, 2-1
Ryan Huang / Larry Sun, 2-1
Congress
Kimaya Kadkol, 1st Place
Sanhita Chava, 2nd Place
Eshar Dhaliwal, 3rd Place
Venkatrama Kota, 4th Place
Arnav Sachin, 4th Place
Maximus Luan, 5th Place
Bentley Invitational
Aashika Cheruvu, 1st Place
Andrew Zhang, 1st Place
Eva Dhungana, 2nd Place, Best PO
Moksha Menta, 2nd Place, Best PO
Kimaya Kadkol, 2nd Place
Isabella Yang, 3rd Place
Eliezer Kumar-Lau, 3rd Place
Saatvik Swaminathan, 3rd Place
Olivia Sandy, 4th Place
Iman Mahmood, 4th Place
Arnav Sachin, 4th Place
Ian Lam, 5th Place
Arsh Mathur, 6th Place
Lincoln-Douglas / Public Forum (Heritage HS)
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Arshi Sengupta, 3-0
Aashini Ashok, 2-1
Andrew Zhang, 2-1
Wing Cheung, 2-1
Public Forum Debate
Eva Dhungana & Olivia Sandy, 3-0
Saina Shetty & Aishani Chabra, 2-1
Savir Gill & Aadya Reddy, 2-1
Congress 2 / Parli 2
Congress House
1st Place, Moksha Menta
3rd Place, Aashika Cheruvu
5th Place, Sanhita Chava
5th Place, Arnav Sachin
5th Place, Saatvik Swaninathan
Parliamentary Debate
Anya Aradhya / Devin Kapoor. 3-1
Rishaan Rupareliya / Larry Sun / Zander Tu, 3-1
Congress 1, Miramonte
1st Place Moksha Menta
2nd Place Aashika Cheruvu
3rd Place Eva Dhungana
5th Place Olivia Sandy
2023-24
CHSSA Middle School State Championships
Congress:
Samika Nath, 1st Place, State Champion
Anadita Upadhaya, 2nd Place
Prahlad Garigipati, 7th Place
Anya Patiar, 10th Place
Anika Bhasin, Semi-Finalist
Fred Zhang, Semi-Finalist
Annalise Huang, Semi-Finalist
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Taiba Hanif, Octa-Finalist
Eleanor Chang, 2-Octa Finalist
Windemere Invitational
Samika Nath, 1st Place, Best PO
Annalise Huang, 1st Place
Ian Lam, 2nd Place
Avishi Gupta, 3rd Place
Anisha Joshi, 3rd Place
Aashika Cheruvu, 4th Place
Anya Patiar, 5th Place
Sanhita Chava, 5th Place, Best PO
Stanford Invitational
Congress
Anadita Upadhaya - 5th Place
Anika Bhasin - 11th Place
Samika Nath - Semi-finalist
Sanhita Chava - Semi-finalist
Congress 3, Debate 3, Dougherty Valley HS
Congress
Smayna Kasibhotla, 1st Place
Samika Nath, 2nd Place
Isabella Yang, 4th Place, Best PO
Anya Patiar, 4th Place
Annalise Huang, 4th Place
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Alice Chen, 3-0
Gray Garson, 3-0
Public Forum Debate
Mya Jibodh / Anisha Joshi, 2-1
Eleanor Chang / Aishani Chabra, 2-1
Bentley Invitational Congress
Fred Zhang, 1st Place
Anika Bhasin, 2nd Place
Samika Nath, 2nd Place
Anadita Upadhyaya, 2nd Place
Prahlad Garigipati, 3rd Place
Alice Chen, 4th Place / Best PO
Eleanor Chang, 4th Place
Anya Patiar, 5th Place
Nivya Lakkyreddy, 5th Place
Smayna Kasibhotla, 5th Place
Ayanah Gupta, 6th Place
Alan Grad, 6th Place
Arjun Shenoy, 7th Place
Eshar Dhaliwal, 7th Place
Debate 2 , Monte Vista
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Anadita Upadhyaya, 3-0
Jialiang Chen, 2-1
Isabella Yang, 2-1
Public Forum Debate
Aishani Chabra & Sanhita Chava, 2-1
Congress 2, San Ramon HS
1st Anadita Upadhyaya
2nd Samika Nath
3rd. Anika Bhasin
4th Garson Gray
5th Alice Chen
Best PO, Sunny Chava, Anya Patiar
Debate 1 , Head Royce
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Anadita Upadhyaya, 3-0
Jialiang Chen, 2-1
Congress 1, Miramonte
1st Anadita Upadhyaya
2nd Samika Nath
3rd/PO Smayna Kasibhotla
4th Mya Jibodh
4th Anika Bhasin
5th Jialiang Chen
2022-23
Debate 3 / Congress 3, online
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Aayan Hanif, 3-0
Anadita Upadhyaya, 3-0
Alice Chen, 3-0
Vivian Nguyen, 2-1
Public Forum Debate
Vaibhav Muthuraman & Pranav Narra, 3-0
Oliver Beamer & Aariyan Sabnani, 2-1
Avishi Gupta & Ayanah Gupta, 2-1
Congress
Tanya Mishra, 1st Place
Warren Lam, 2nd Place
Naina Rewal, 4th Place
Eric Liang, 5th Place
Haani Kurshid, 5th Place
Bentley Invitational
Anadita Upadhyaya, 1st Place
Warren Lam, 1st Place
Tanya Mishra, 1st Place
Fred Zhang, 2nd Place
Vivian Nguyen, 3rd Place
Shreya Sudarsan, 3rd Place
Ian Lam, 3rd Place
Debate 2, Heritage HS
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Ria Tandon, 3-0
Aayon Hanif, 3-0
Anadita Upadhyaya, 2-1
Avaneesh Dammanagari, 2-1
Haani Khurshid, 2-1
Public Forum Debate
Oliver Beamer & Aariyan Sabnani, 2-1
Vaibhav Muthuraman & Pranav Narra, 2-1
Congress 2, San Ramon HS
Anadita Upadhyaya, 1st Place
Vivian Nguyen, 1st Place
Warren Lam, 4th Place
Annalise Huang, 4th Place
Ria Tandon, 5th Place
Congress 1, September 24, Miramonte HS
Naina Rewal, 3rd Place
Anadita Upadhyaya, 3rd Place
Aayan Hanif, 5th Place
Warren Lam, 5th Place
Vivian Nguyen, Best PO
Shriya Sudarsan, Best PO
2021-22
Debate 3, Public Forum , Lincoln-Douglas, Congress Jan 22
CONGRESS RESULTS
Pritam Misri, 1st Place
Rishal Melvani, 1st Place
Moksha Pedaballi, 2nd Place
Zara Mehmood, 2nd Place
Sonia Sharma, 2nd Place
Naina Rewal, 4th Place
Warren Lam, 5th Place
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE RESULTS:
Manya Saravu, 3-0
PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE RESULTS:
Claire Chin / Shrishti Mazumder, 2-1
Debate 2, Public Forum and Lincoln-Douglas, Nov 13
PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE RESULTS:
Claire Chin / Shrishti Mazumder, 2-1
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE RESULTS:
Aayan Hanif, 2-1
Aditi Vinapamula, 2-1
Manya Saravu, 2-1
Pritam Misri, 2-1
Zara Mehmood, 2-1
Congress 2 / Parli 2 Tournament, Nov 6
PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE RESULTS:
Claire Chin / Shrishti Mazumder, 2-1
CONGRESS RESULTS:
Naina Rewal, 1st Place
Rishal Melvani, 1st Place
Zara Mehmood, 1st Place
Moksha Pedaballi, 2nd Place
Arya Gupta, 3rd Place
Lucas Chi, 3rd Place
Siddharth Kalavacharla, 4th Place
Pragyan Ramamoorthy, 4th Place
Marcus Chalasani, 4th Place
Aayan Hanif, 5th Place
Pritam Misri, 5th Place
Manya Saravu, 5th Place
Congress 1 Tournament, Sept. 25
Zara Mehmood, 1st Place
Claire Chin, 2nd Place
Vivaan Sinha, 2nd Place
Sonia Sharma, 3rd Place
Rishal Melvani, 4th Place
Pritam Misri, 5th Place
Athena Li, 5th Place
2020-21
Public Forum 3 / Congress 3 Tournament
Public Forum Results
Mohak Joshi/Julie Pu, 3-0
Mathew Law/Abhinav Shah, 2-1
Congress Results
Zara Mehmood, 2nd Place
Olivia Brandeis, 3rd Place
Owen Brandeis, 4th Place
Neal Chandran, 4th Place
Shaurya Shrivastava, 4th Place
Rishal Melvani, 5th Place
LD 3 / Parli 3
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Results
Olivia Brandeis, 3-0
Zara Mehmood, 3-0
Owen Brandeis, 2-1
Evan Kamena, 2-1
Parli Debate Results
Mathew Law/Abhinav Shah, 3-0
Neal Chandran/Connor Lam, 2-1
Claire Chin/Shrishti Mazumdar, 2-1
Pragyan Ramamoorthy/Julie Pu, 2-1
Public Forum 2 Tournament
Mathew Law/Abhinav Shah, 2-1
Claire Chin/Shrishti Mazumdar, 2-1
Mohak Joshi/Julie Pu, 2-1
Congress 2, LD 2, Parli 2
Congress Results
Neal Chandran, 3rd Place
Shaurya Shrivastava, 3rd Place
Claire Chin, 5th Place
Lincoln-Douglas Debate Results
Owen Brandeis, 3-0
Olivia Brandeis, 3-0
Niveda Banerjee, 2-1
Evan Kamena, 2-1
Pritam Misri, 2-1
Parli Debate Results
Mathew Law/Abhinav Shah, 3-0
Congress 1
Brandeis, Olivia, 1st
Shrivastava, Shaurya , 2nd
Chandran, Neil, 2nd
Shah, Abhinav, 2nd
Lam, Connor, 3rd
Kamena, Evan, 4th
Brandeis, Owen, 4th
Law, Matthew, 5th
2019-20
Congress 3/PuFo 3
Congress Results
Ethan Chen, 3rd Place
Alex Choi, 3rd Place
Justin Chan, 3rd Place
Neal Chandran, 3rd Place
Kaavya Vipul, 3rd Place
Owen Brandeis, 5th Place
PuFo Results
Satwick Panigrahi/Kaival Shah, 2-1
LD/Parli 3
LD Results
Ethan Chen, 3-0
Owen Brandeis, 3-0
Justin Chan, 3-0
Bilva Vedamurthy, 3-0
Olivia Brandeis 2-1
LD/PuFo 2
LD Results
Ethan Chen, 3-0
Olivia Brandeis, 3-0
Bilva Vedamurthy, 3-0
Kaavya Vipul, 3-0
Justin Chan, 2-1
Shlok Kunjoor, 2-1
Max Huang, 2-1
PuFo Results
Satwick Panigrahi/Kaival Shah, 2-1
Congress 2 at San Ramon HS
Ethan Chen, 1st Place
Satwik Panigrahi, 2nd Place
Olivia Brandeis, 4th Place
Elizabeth Tak, 4th Place
Vihan Shah, 4th Place
Neil Chandran, 5th Place
Owen Brandeis, 5th Place
Congress 1 at Miramonte HS
Connor Lam, 3rd Place
Ethan Chen, 4th Place
Vihan Shah, 5th Place
Bilva Vedamurthy, 5th Place
Elizabeth Tak, 5th Place
2018-19
Congress 3 at San Marin HS, Novato
Sabrina Brandeis, 1st Place
Audrey Kamena, 1st Place
Ronald Kan, 2nd Place
Lucas Johansson, 2nd Place
Pavithra Nithiyakumar, 3rd Place
Debate 3 at San Ramon HS, Danville
Parliamentary Debate
Ronald Kan and Mostafa Khan, 2-1
LD
Pavithra Nithiyakumar 3-0
Lucas Johansson, 3-0
Akash Anand, 3-0
Mahika Gupta, 3-0
Aarnav Verma, 2-1
Sabina Dhindsa, 2-1
Ron Natarajan, 2-1
Debate 2 at Diablo Valley College
PuFo
Audrey Kamena and Ronald Kan, 3-0
Aditya Ghorpade and Timothy Schoonover, 2-1
LD
Aarnav Verma, 3-0
Pavithra Nithiyakumar 3-0
Lucas Johansson, 3-0
Akash Anand, 3-0
Mahika Gupta, 3-0
Ryan Tang, 2-1
Ron Natarajan, 2-1
Samira Sinha, 2-1
Congress 2 at Monte Vista HS
Sabrina Brandeis, 1st Place
Audrey Kamena, 1st Place
Akash Anand, 1st Place
Lucas Johansson, 3rd Place
Pavithra Nithiyakumar, 3rd Place
Congress 1 at Miramonte HS
Sabrina Brandeis, 1st Place
Vihan Shah, 1st Place
Akash Anand, 1st Place
Audrey Kamena, 2nd Place
Mahika Gupta, 4th Place
Samira Sinha, 5th Place
2017-18
Congress 1 at Miramonte HS
Shubh Tandon, 1st Place
Kevin Wang, 1st Place
Charles Gu, 1st Place
Arul Mathur, 3rd
Pavithra Nithiyakumar, 3rd
Cindy Zhu, 3rd Place
Shreya Sripada, 3rd Place
Sarush Soti, 4th Place
Emily Kang, 5th Place
Congress 2 at Monte Vista HS
Emily Kang 1st Place
Kevin Wang, 1st Place
Cindy Zhu, 3rd Place
Shubh Tandon, 5th Place
Eston Kuwahara, 5th Place
Zachary Elian, 5th Place
Anjali Ramesh, 5th Place
Debate 2 at Diablo Valley College
PuFo
Charles and Cindy, 3-0
Shreya and Kuwahara, 3-0
Kevin Wang and Ethan Shin, 2-1
LD
Shubh Tandon, 3-0
Pavithra Nithiyakumar 2-1
Florence Zhu, 2-1
Arul Mathur, 2-1
Emily Kang, 2-1
Congress 3 at San Marin HS
Kevin Wang, 1st
Charlie Gu, 2nd
Emily Kang, 2nd
Sabrina Brandeis, 2nd
Arul Mathur, 2nd
Cindy Zhu, 4th
LD/Parli at City College San Francisco
Parli
Anjali Ramesh/Siona Mondal, 3-0
Eston Kuwahara/Nandita Tangirala, 2-1
Alice Zhong/Zachary Elian, 2-1
LD
Sabrina Brandeis, 3-0
Emily Kang, 3-0
Arul Mathur, 3-0
Sarush Soti, 2-1
Shubh Tandon, 2-1
Aarnav Verma, 2-1
Stanford University Congress
Kevin Wang, 2nd Place
Charles Gu, 3rd Place
Sabrina Brandeis, 6th Place
Arul Mathur, 12th Place
Cindy Zhu, 10th Place
Alice Zhong, 17th Place
Ben Wornow, 20th Place
2016-17
Congress 1 at George Washington HS, San Francisco
Zaid Fattah, 2nd Place
Rachel Eizner, 3rd Place
Cindy Zhu, 5th Place
Brynne Currier, 5th Place
Lisa Liong, 5th Place
Ben Wornow, 5th Place
Parli 2 or Congress 2 at Monte Vista HS, Danville
Rachel Eizner, 1st Place
Charlies Gu, 1st Place
Zaid Fattah, 2nd Place
Mrudhula Nithiyakumar, 2nd Place
Anoushka Prashanth, 2nd Place
Vaidehee Durgude, 2nd Place
Aditi Raju, 3rd Place
Lisa Liong, 4th Place
Sanya Khan, 4th Place
Ben Wornow, 4th Place
Lisa Leung, 5th Place
Aleka, Maram, 5th Place
PuFo 2 or Lincoln-Douglas 2 at James Logan HS, Union City
Public Forum
Rachel Eizner and Aditi Raju, 3-0
Kevin Wang and Ben Wornow, 2-1
Charles Gu and Cindy Zhu, 2-1
Ezekiel Kumar-Lau and Jack Chang, 2-1
Sanya Khan and Lisa Liong, 2-1
Lincoln-Douglas
Vaidehee Durgude, 3-0
Zaid Fattah, 3-0
Mrudhula Nithiyakumar, 3-0
Juhi Hariawala, 2-1
Lisa Leung, 2-1
Kenneth Hsu, 2-1
Shubh Tandon, 2-1
Arul Mathur, 2-1
Xiuyuan Qiu, 2-1
Congress 3 at San Marin HS, Novato
Vaidehee Durgude, 1st Place
Lisa Liong, 1st Place
Zaid Fattah, 2nd Place
Charles Gu, 2nd Place
Rachel Eizner, 3rd Place
Lisa Leung, 3rd Place
Anoushka Prashanth, 3rd Place
Brynne Currier, 4th Place
Mrudhula Nithiyakumar, 4th Place
Xiuyuan Qiu, 4th Place
Kevin Wang, 5th Place
Lincoln-Douglas 2 or Parli 2 at Lowell HS, San Francisco
Lincoln-Douglas
Juhi Hariawala, 3-0
Zaid Fattah, 3-0
Vaidehee Durgude, 2-1
Mrudhula Nithiyakumar, 2-1
Lisa Leung, 2-1
Arul Mathur, 2-1
Sarush Soti, 2-1
Parli Debate
Rachel Eizner and Aditi Raju, 3-0
Jack Chang and Brynne Currier, 2-1
Sanya Khan and Lisa Liong, 2-1
Ezekiel Kumar-Lau and Adam Tsugawa, 2-1
Shreya Sripada and Cindy Zhu, 2-1
Stanford University Middle School Congress
Rachel Eizner, 1st Place
Vaidehee Durgude, Finalist
Zaid Fattah, Finalist
Lisa Leung, Finalist
Mrudhula Nithiyakumar, Finalist
Anoushka Prashanth, Finalist