{"id":8265,"date":"2026-01-14T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:33:05","slug":"ponte-vedra-speech-and-debate-competes-at-statewide-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/ponte-vedra-speech-and-debate-competes-at-statewide-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponte Vedra Speech and Debate competes at Statewide Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>   The Ponte Vedra High School (PVHS) Speech and Debate Team competed at the Florida Speech<br>and Debate Initiative Statewide Tournament on December 6 and 7. Teams from across the state<br>competed to place and qualify for the coveted spots at the state tournament. Senior Aidan Killian<br>and sophomore Yoyo Qu placed first at this tournament and took home the gold. In addition,<br>sophomore Miguel Komaroff, freshman Catherine Mitchell, and freshman Leo Rao were<br>semifinalists. The following students represented PVHS in their respective categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Dhruva Gadiparthi; Informative Speaking (INF)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hannah Haleem; Extemporaneous Debate (EXTD)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aidan Killian; Lincoln Douglas (LD)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Miguel Komaroff; Legislative Debate (LEG)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Catherine Mitchell; Impromptu Speaking (IMP)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gabriel Nochera; Ronald Reagan Presidential Debate (RPD)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Philip Parizianu; Extemporaneous Debate (EXTD)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yoyo Qu; Ronald Reagan Presidential Debate (RPD)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doga Tankut; Original Oratory (OO)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dhaani Ailawadhi; Original Oratory (OO)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leo Rao; Extemporaneous Debate (EXTD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Pictured: Yo-Yo Qu and Aidan Killian with their First Place Trophies <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ponte Vedra High School (PVHS) Speech and Debate Team competed at the Florida Speechand Debate Initiative Statewide Tournament on December 6 and 7. Teams from across the statecompeted to place and qualify for the coveted spots at the state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[138,149,839],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8289,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions\/8289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}