Speech Club

Club Advisor: Heather Linsley

 

Sutter had another great day at Folsom Middle School's speech tournament over this weekend on March 29th.

Sutter participated in 55 of the 117 events hosted that day. Five schools from the Sacramento region had participated (sutter, Folsom, Miwok, Granite Bay and Iceberg). 

Sutter won the trophy for the highest number of wins!! Attached is a picture of the kids holding the trophy.

Here are the places won by Sutter kids: 

Declamation
2	Ashmi Gupta
3	Will Huang
4	Gursheen Shergill
Dramatic Interpretation
1	Pearl Shi
2	Meenakshi Seetharaman
4	Ritu Arun
6	Jethri Burle
Humorous Interpretation
1	Moukthika Chintalapudi
2	Sara Tomes
3	Brinda Raghavendra
5	Akul Jhanwar
6	Hrehan Singh
Impromptu
2	Vyom Gaur
5	Mithil Biswal
Persuasive
1	Akshara Bontha
2	Uditi Sathish
Poetic Interpretation
2	Anisha Kankipati
3	Tejaswini Viswanath
4	Vanisha Cheruku
5	Swasti Raizada

CVFL-6 St. Francis HS Speech Tournament 

 

 

Sutter had a great showing at the CVFL-6 (Capitol Valley Forensic League) High School tournament at St. Francis Catholic High School!! 

Sutter placed #5 in sweepstakes among 16 schools (all the rest were high schools)!! 

Sutter participated in 36/162 events yesterday and placed in 18 events in the finals!! 

Outstanding recognitions:

1. Shakthi Kondakindi won the sweepstakes for Team MVP for Sutter.

2. Karthik Meyyappan placed 2nd in Varsity Impromptu and 1st in Novice International Extemp.

3. Tejaswini Viswanath placed 6th in Varsity Original Prose and Poetry.

4. Pearl Shi placed 1st in Novice HI and 2nd in Novice DI.

5. Akshara Bontha placed 2nd in Novice Original Advocacy.

6. Advait Srinivas placed 2nd in Novice International Extemp. 

7. Shrijani Padmanabhan placed 3rd in Novice DI.

8. Vidditi Khanna placed 3rd in novice HI. 

Event-by-Event Results

1. Impromptu: Karthik Meyyappan placed 2nd out of 34 students.
2. Novice Declamation (NOI):
   • Pearl Shi placed 2nd out of 17 students.
   • Ashmi Gupta placed 4th out of 17 students.
   • Akshara Ramineni placed 9th out of 17 students.
   • Gursheen Shergill placed 13th out of 17 students.
3. Novice Dramatic Interpretation:
   • Shrijani Padmanabhan placed 3rd out of 11 students.
   • Shakthi Kondakindi placed 4th out of 11 students.
   • Vidditi Khanna placed 5th out of 11 students.
4. Novice Duo Interpretation: The team of Bontha & Kondakindi placed 6th out of 10 teams.
5. Novice Humorous Interpretation:
   • Pearl Shi placed 1st out of 7 students.
   • Vidditi Khanna placed 3rd out of 7 students.
   • Akshara Bontha placed 5th out of 7 students.
   • Advik Sharma placed 6th out of 7 students.
6. Novice Impromptu:
   • Shaivika Isanaka placed 8th out of 30 students.
   • Aariv Sharma placed 14th out of 30 students.
   • Advait Srinivas placed 17th out of 30 students.
   • Aarnika Rajesh placed 21st out of 30 students.
7. Novice International Extemporaneous:
   • Karthik Meyyappan placed 1st out of 6 students.
   • Advait Srinivas placed 2nd out of 6 students.
   • Pratheek Guru Prasanna placed 3rd out of 6 students.
8. Novice Original Advocacy:
   • Akshara Bontha placed 2nd out of 5 students.
   • Pratheek Guru Prasanna placed 3rd out of 5 students.
9. Novice Original Oratory:
   • Samarth Saralaya placed 6th out of 20 students.
   • Tanishq Nyalkalkar placed 7th out of 20 students.
   • Uditi Sathish placed 8th out of 20 students.
   • Naisha Jain placed 10th out of 20 students.
   • Brinda Raghavendra placed 14th out of 20 students.
10. Novice Program Oral Interpretation: Shakthi Kondakindi placed 4th out of 4 students.
11. Original Prose/Poetry: Tejaswini Viswanath placed 6th out of 7 students.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Sutter Middle School Speech Tournament 1/25/25 

On Saturday, 1/25, SMS hosted our Speech and Debate Tournament on campus. There were contestants from 6 middle schools (Cal Middle, Miwok, Folsom Middle, Granite Bay, and Iceberg Academy) and there were a total of 144 Event participants. Congratulations to Sutter Middle School for having the highest number of wins!

Declamation:
1st Place - Ashmi Gupta
3rd Place - Alekya Gollapudi
4th Place - Akshara Ramineni
5th Place - Swastik Swain
6th Place - Aisshwarya Saravanan

Dramatic Interpretation:
1st Place - Vidditi Khanna
4th Place - Shakthi Kondakindi

Humorous Interpretation:
1st Place - Advik Sharma
3rd Place - Pearl Shi
5th Place - Moukthika Chintalapudi

Impromptu:
1st Place - Karthik Meyyappan
3rd Place - Sarayu Gandlur
5th Place - Vyom Gaur
8th Place - Advait Srinivas

Persuasive:
2nd Place - Vanisha Cheruku
4th Place - Samarah Ahmed
5th Place - Gursheen Shergill
6th Place - Mihir Nimkar

Poetic Interpretation:
3rd Place - Swasti Raizada
6th Place - Tejaswini Viswanath
7th Place - Anjali Shah

 

Miwok Middle School Speech Tournament: 

Sutter competed against Miwok, Folsom Middle, Granite Bay and Iceberg. 62/132 participants at the tournament today were from Sutter! A lot of our kids were participating for the first time. I am extremely proud of all the kids who participated and those who won today!! 

Sutter Won the trophy for the Highest number of wins!! Attached is a picture of the kids with the trophy!

Oratorical Interpretation:
1st Place - Alekya Golapudi
3rd place - Ashmi Gupta
4th place - Gursheen Shergill
6th place - Aisshwarya Saravanan

Dramatic Interpretation:
2nd place - Shakthi Kondakindi
4th place - Meenakshi Seetharaman
5th place - Moukthika Chintalapudi

Impromptu:
3rd place - Sarayu Gandlur
7th place - Lin-Jui Wu

Persuasive:
5th place - Sanvika Pasumarthi

Poetic Interpretation:
4th place - Vihaani Atikam

Humorous Interpretation:
2nd place - Shrijani Padmanabhan
3rd place - Akshara Bontha
4th place - Sara Tomes
5th place - Advik Sharma 

CVFL High School Speech Tournament at Granite Bay High School:

Sutter kids were 17 of the 300+ event participants at Granite Bay yesterday. It was the largest group that has ever competed in our region.

Here are the awards bagged by Sutter:

Most Valuable Players (MVPs) -  It’s recognizing the member of each team who did the best on their team.

Vidditi Khanna & Gursheen Shergill

Large School Sweepstakes:

Sutter was placed 9th, higher than Vista del Lago which placed in 10th place. 

Program Oral Interpretation:

4th place: Shakthi Kondakindi

Novice Declamation:

6th place: Gursheen Shergill

Novice Humorous Interpretation:

3rd place: Vidditi Khanna

4th place: Akshara Bontha 

5th place: Shrijani Padmanabhan

Novice Impromptu:

Karthik Meyyappan (Finalist, recognized)

 

As always, our biggest thanks to Ms. Linsley and Sutter Management to back this club and for enabling the kids to explore their talent.