2020-2021 AWARDS
State and National Rankings
Note: These rankings are as of June 19, 2021, and were taken at the end of the 2020-2021 Speech season.
Team Rankings
Monta Vista High School (5th in CA, 18th in USA)
Impromptu
Eric Lee (1st in CA, 2nd in USA)
Riya Nilkant (3rd in CA, 22nd in USA)
Lavi Sundar (7th in CA, 66th in USA)
Jiya Singh (14th in CA)
Tvisha Gupta (15th in CA)
Meghana Dhruv (28th in CA)
Aashrita Natesan (29th in CA)
Saanvi Mantripragada (38th in CA)
Alex Zhang (42nd in CA)
Original Oratory
Kai Xiao (5th in CA, 96th in USA)
Eric Lee (10th in CA)
Navya Rao (23rd in CA)
Alex Way (25th in CA)
Deetshana Parthipan (27th in CA)
Oishee Misra (28th in CA)
Dramatic Interpretation
Elene Pilpani (5th in CA, 42nd in USA)
Divya Venkataraman (43rd in CA)
Anya Goyal (47th in CA)
Humorous Interpretation
Olive Tang (14th in CA)
Shreyassriram Garimella (16th in CA)
Tanish Mendki (30th in CA)
Ameya Joshi (50th in CA)
Duo Interpretation
Elene Pilpani and Olive Tang (24th in CA)
Commentary
Eric Lee (3rd in CA, 37th in USA)
Aman Desai (12th in CA)
Extemporaneous
Alex Zhang (19th in CA)
Expository
Hiranya Sundar (35th in CA)
Jack Howe Invitational
Saanvi Mantripragada (2nd Place, IMP Finalist)
Eric Lee (4th Place, IMP Finalist)
Deetshana Parthipan (4th Place, OO Finalist)
Jia Desai (7th Place, DI Finalist)
Abirami Kathiresan (IMP Semifinalist)
Alex Zhang (IMP Semifinalist; EXT Semifinalist)
Elene Pilpani (DI Semifinalist)
Stephen Stewart Invitational
Eric Lee (1st Place, OO Champion; 2nd Place, IMP Finalist)
Olive Tang (1st Place, HI Champion)
Anusha Sainarayanan (1st Place, OI Champion)
Atmaja Patil (2nd Place, EXT Finalist)
Divya Venkataraman (3rd Place, OI Finalist; 7th Place, DI Finalist)
Maggie Yang (3rd Place, IMP Finalist)
Ajit Chamraj (4th Place, HI Finalist)
Anya Goyal (5th Place, DI Finalist)
Shivani Madhan (5th Place, EXT Finalist)
Tvisha Gupta (6th Place, OO Finalist; IMP Semifinalist)
Hiranya Sundar (6th Place, INFO Finalist)
Trisha Sreedhar (6th Place, OI Finalist)
Pallavi Chekka (IMP Semifinalist)
Yale Invitational
Eric Lee (9th Place, OO Semifinalist)
Trisha Sreedhar (15th Place, OI Semifinalist)
CFL League 1
Alex Zhang (1st Place, NX Champion)
Elene Pilpani (2nd Place, DI Finalist)
Eric Lee (7th Place, IMP Finalist)
Jiya Singh (IMP Semifinalist)
Saanvi Mantripragada (IMP Semifinalist)
Tvisha Gupta (OO Semifinalist)
Divya Venkataraman (OI Semifinalist)
Deetshana Parthipan (OO Semifinalist)
Sanjana Jilla (IX Semifinalist)
Ajit Chamraj (HI Semifinalist)
Florida Blue Key
Alex Zhang (4th Place, EXT Finalist)
Olive Tang (HI Quarterfinalist)
Tanish Mendki (HI Quarterfinalist)
Divya Venkataraman (DI Quarterfinalist)
CFL Novice
Ananya Jilla (1st Place, DI Champion)
Jisha Rajala (2nd Place, OO Finalist)
Srushti Batni (2nd Place, DI Finalist)
Smriti Rangarajan (3rd Place, OO Finalist)
Ryland Adzich (3rd Place, NX Finalist)
Meggie Chen (3rd Place, DI Finalist)
Shreyassriram Garimella (3rd Place, HI Finalist)
Sonia Verma (4th Place, IX Finalist)
Aarushi Jain (4th Place, OO Finalist)
Sooraj Vydyanathan (4th Place, IMP Finalist)
Abha Dash (4th Place, HI Finalist)
Shravan Suresh (5th Place, IX Finalist)
Shruti Narayanan (5th Place, IMP Finalist)
April Wang (5th Place, HI Finalist)
Anika Mathur (6th Place, OO Finalist)
Anvitha Mattapalli (OO Semifinalist)
Iniyaa Suresh (NX Semifinalist)
Muskaan Garg (IMP Semifinalist)
Vedavi Kavoori (IMP Semifinalist)
Ritwika Ghosh (OO Semifinalist)
Meenakshi Manoj (IMP Semifinalist)
Vrinda Inani (OO Semifinalist)
Rohit Pamidi (OO Semifinalist)
Justine Garcia (OO Semifinalist)
CFL League 2
Alex Zhang (1st Place, NX Champion; 3rd Place, IMP Finalist)
Eric Lee (1st Place, IMP Champion)
Olive Tang (3rd Place, HI Finalist)
Elene Pilpani (6th Place, DI Finalist)
Divya Venkataraman (DI Semifinalist; OI Semifinalist)
Atmaja Patil (IX Semifinalist)
Anya Goyal (DI Semifinalist)
Tvisha Gupta (OO Semifinalist)
April Wang (HI Semifinalist)
Meggie Chen (DI Semifinalist)
Anusha Sainarayanan (OI Semifinalist)
Anaya Jilla (DI Semifinalist)
Jiya Singh (HI Semifinalist)
Srushti Batni (DI Semifinalist)
SCU Fall Invitational
Deetshana Parthipan (1st Place, V OO Champion)
Elene Pilpani (2nd Place, V DI Finalist; 2nd Place, V DUO Finalist)
Olive Tang (2nd Place, V DUO Finalist; 4th Place, V HI Finalist)
Atmaja Patil (2nd Place, V EXT Finalist)
Divya Venkataraman (3rd Place, V OI Finalist)
Tvisha Gupta (V OO Semifinalist; V IMP Semifinalist)
Ashil Shao (V OI Semifinalist)
Anusha Sainarayanan (V OI Semifinalist)
Lavi Sundar (V IMP Semifinalist)
Sanjana Jilla (V EXT Semifinalist)
Michelle Zheng (2nd Place, JV DI Finalist)
Shreyassriram Garimella (3rd Place, JV HI Finalist)
Anika Mathur (4th Place, JV OO Finalist)
Sarah Liu (4th Place, JV DI Finalist)
Meenakshi Manoj (5th Place, JV IMP Finalist)
Jisha Rajala (5th Place, JV OO Finalist)
Justine Garcia (JV OO Semifinalist)
Anvitha Mattapalli (JV OO Semifinalist)
Darren Chiu (JV DI Semifinalist)
Meggie Chen (JV DI Semifinalist)
Princeton Classic
Olive Tang (2nd Place, DUO Finalist; HI Semifinalist)
Elene Pilpani (2nd Place, DUO Finalist; DI Semifinalist)
Alex Zhang (4th Place, EXT Finalist)
Winter MASQ
Elene Pilpani & Olive Tang (5th Place, DUO Finalists)
Deetshana Parthipan (OO Quarterfinalist)
Smriti Rangarajan (OO Quarterfinalist)
Shreyassriram Garimella (HI Quarterfinalist)
Tanish Mendki (HI Quarterfinalist)
Jiya Singh (HI Quarterfinalist)
James Logan MLK Invitational
3rd Place Team Sweepstakes!
Eric Lee (1st Place, IMP Champion; 4th Place, NX Finalist)
Riya Nilkant (2nd Place, IMP Finalist)
Alex Zhang (4th Place, IMP Finalist; 5th Place, NX Finalist)
Olive Tang (4th Place, HI Finalist)
Elene Pilpani (DI Semifinalist; POI Quarterfinalist)
Atmaja Patil (IX Semifinalist)
Michelle Zheng (HI Semifinalist; DI Quarterfinalist)
Amy Zhang (HI Quarterfinalist)
Lavi Sundar (IMP Quarterfinalist)
Maggie Yang (IMP Quarterfinalist; NX Quarterfinalist)
Shreyassriram Garimella (HI Quarterfinalist)
Tvisha Gupta (IMP Quarterfinalist)
Sotirios Kougiouris (HI Quarterfinalist)
Alex Way (OO Quarterfinalist)
Abha Dash (HI Quarterfinalist)
Jiya Singh (HI Quarterfinalist; IMP Octofinalist)
Pallavi Chekka (IMP Octofinalist)
Smriti Rangarajan (OO Octofinalist)
Saanvi Mantripragada (IMP Octofinalist)
CFL League 3
Shreyassriram Garimella (1st Place, HI Champion)
Elene Pilpani (3rd Place, POI Finalist; DUO Semifinalist)
Divya Venkataraman (OI Semifinalist, DI Semifinalist)
Jiya Singh (IMP Semifinalist)
Eric Lee (IMP Semifinalist)
Atmaja Patil (IX Semifinalist)
Olive Tang (DUO Semifinalist)
Aman Desai (IX Semifinalist)
Tanish Mendki (HI Semifinalist)
Deetshana Parthipan (OO Semifinalist)
Tvisha Gupta (OO Semifinalist)
Smriti Rangarajan (OO Semifinalist)
Riya Nilkant (IMP Semifinalist)
Jia Desai (DI Semifinalist)
Srushti Batni (DI Semifinalist)
Lavi Sundar (IMP Semifinalist)
Anya Goyal (DI Semifinalist)
Abirami V Kathiresan (IMP Semifinalist)
Stanford Invitational
2nd Place Team Sweepstakes!
Alex Zhang (1st Place, V IMP Champion; 6th Place, V NX Finalist)
Deetshana Parthipan (2nd Place, V OO Finalist)
Riya Nilkant (2nd Place, V IMP Finalist)
Eric Lee (3rd Place, V IMP Finalist; V NX Quarterfinalist)
Elene Pilpani & Olive Tang (3rd Place, V DUO Finalists)
Jiya Singh (4th Place, V IMP Finalist; 5th Place, V HI Finalist)
Tvisha Gupta (V OO Semifinalist)
Olive Tang (V HI Semifinalist)
Lavi Sundar (V IMP Semifinalist)
Shreyassriram Garimella (1st Place, JV HI Champion)
Ryland Adzich (1st Place, JV NX Champion)
Michelle Zheng (2nd Place, JV DI Finalist; 4th Place, JV HI Finalist)
Abha Dash (2nd Place, JV HI Finalist)
Ananya Jilla (3rd Place, JV DI Finalist)
Srushti Batni (4th Place, JV DI Finalist)
Iniyaa Suresh (4th Place, JV NX Finalist)
Meggie Chen (5th Place, JV DI Finalist)
Vedavi Kavoori (6th Place, JV SPAR Finalist; N IMP Quarterfinalist)
Sarah Liu (6th Place, JV DI Finalist)
Sooraj Vydyanathan (6th Place, JV IMP Finalist)
Aarushi Jain (JV OO Semifinalist)
Meenakshi Manoj (JV IMP Semifinalist)
Manya Dua (JV IMP Semifinalist)
Pallavi Chekka (JV IMP Semifinalist)
Anvitha Mattapalli (JV OO Quarterfinalist)
Justine Garcia (JV OO Quarterfinalist)
Shravan Suresh (6th Place, N IX Finalist)
Tanusha Kaushik (N IMP Semifinalist)
Amanjyoti Mridha (N IMP Semifinalist)
Andrew Chen (N IMP Quarterfinalist)
Ximeng Liu (N IMP Quarterfinalist)
Berkeley Invitational
1st Place Speech Sweepstakes, 2nd Place Overall Sweepstakes!
Eric Lee (1st Place, IMP Champion; OO Octofinalist)
Elene Pilpani (2nd Place, DI Finalist)
Shreyassriram Garimella (3rd Place, HI Finalist)
Riya Nilkant (4th Place, IMP Finalist)
Michelle Zheng (5th Place, HI Finalist)
Jiya Singh (7th Place, HI Finalist; IMP Quarterfinalist)
Anya Goyal (DI Semifinalist)
Atmaja Patil (EXT Semifinalist)
Jia Desai (DI Semifinalist)
Alex Zhang (EXT Semifinalist)
Saanvi Mantripragada (IMP Quarterfinalist)
Deetshana Parthipan (OO Quarterfinalist)
Tvisha Gupta (IMP Quarterfinalist; OO Octofinalist)
Srushti Batni (DI Quarterfinalist)
Sarah Liu (DI Quarterfinalist)
Vedavi Kavoori (IMP Octofinalist)
Aman Desai (EXT Quarterfinalist)
Rohin Inani (IMP Octofinalist)
Maggie Yang (IMP Octofinalist)
Jisha Rajala (OO Octofinalist)
Abirami V Kathiresan (IMP Octofinalist)
Maggie Du (OO Octofinalist)
Ari Rajaram (IMP Octofinalist)
Anthony Wang (IMP Octofinalist)
Spring MASQ
Elene Pilpani & Olive Tang (3rd Place, DUO Finalists)
Tvisha Gupta (OO Semifinalist)
Olive Tang (HI Semifinalist)
Shreyassriram Garimella (HI Semifinalist)
Michelle Zheng (HI Semifinalist)
Eric Lee (OO Quarterfinalist)
State Qualifiers
Alex Zhang (1st Place, NX Qualifer; 6th Alternate, IMP Semifinalist)
Eric Lee (2nd Place, IMP Qualifier; 1st Alternate, OO Semifinalist)
Elene Pilpani (3rd Place, POI Qualifier; 5th Place, DI Qualifier)
Shreyassriram Garimella (2nd Alternate, HI Qualifier)
Lavi Sundar (3rd Alternate, IMP Qualifier)
Olive Tang (4th Alternate, HI Semifinalist)
Michelle Zheng (4th Alternate, DI Semifinalist)
Tanish Mendki (6th Alternate, HI Semifinalist)
Srushti Batni (6th Alternate, DI Semifinalist)
National Qualifiers
Eric Lee (NSDA CFL District Student of the Year)
Elene Pilpani (2nd Place, DI Qualifier; 2nd Alternate, POI Finalist)
Olive Tang (3rd Place, HI Qualifier)
Alex Zhang (3rd Place, NX Qualifier)
Shreyassriram Garimella (1st Alternate, HI Qualifier)
Deetshana Parthipan (1st Alternate, OO Finalist)
Michelle Zheng (3rd Alternate, HI Finalist)
Tvisha Gupta (OO Semifinalist)
SCU Spring Invitational
Elene Pilpani (1st Place, V DI Champion; 3rd Place, V DUO Finalist)
Eric Lee (1st Place, V IMP Champion)
Olive Tang (3rd Place, V DUO Finalist; 4th Place, V HI Finalist)
Anya Goyal (3rd Place, V DI Finalist)
Jia Desai (5th Place, V DI Finalist)
Amy Zhang (7th Place, V HI Finalist)
Michelle Zheng (1st Place, JV DI Champion)
Ryland Adzich (1st Place, JV EXT Champion)
Shreyassriram Garimella (1st Place, JV HI Champion)
Vedavi Kavoori (1st Place, JV IMP Champion)
Srushti Batni (2nd Place, JV DI Finalist)
Kripa Mayureshwar (2nd Place, JV HI Finalist)
Meenakshi Manoj (2nd Place, JV IMP Finalist)
Iniyaa Suresh (3rd Place, JV EXT Finalist)
Abha Dash (3rd Place, JV HI Finalist)
Nitima George (3rd Place, JV IMP Finalist)
Aarushi Jain (3rd Place, JV OO Finalist)
Elise Chiu (4th Place, JV DI Finalist)
Sarah Liu (5th Place, JV DI Finalist)
Smriti Rangarajan (5th Place, JV OO Finalist)
Anvitha Mattapalli (JV OO Semifinalist)
University of Kentucky Tournament of Champions
Elene Pilpani (DI Semifinalist; DUO Qualifier)
Shreyassriram Garimella (HI Quarterfinalist)
Michelle Zheng (HI Quarterfinalist)
Atmaja Patil (EXT Qualifier)
Alex Zhang (EXT Qualifier)
Eric Lee (OO Qualifier)
Jia Desai (DI Qualifier)
Jiya Singh (HI Qualifier)
Olive Tang (DUO Qualifier)
Tvisha Gupta (OO Qualifier)
CHSSA California State Championships
16th Place Team Sweepstakes!
Eric Lee (3rd Place, IMP Finalist)
Olive Tang (4th Place, CL Finalist)
Alex Zhang (6th Place, NX Finalist)
Lavi Sundar (7th Place, IMP Finalist)
Shreyassriram Garimella (HI Semifinalist)
Elene Pilpani (DI Qualifier)
National Individual Events Tournament of Champions
Eric Lee (OO Semifinalist)
Shreyassriram Garimella (HI Quaterfinalist)
Alex Way (OO Octofinalist)
Elene Piplani (DI Qualifier; DUO Qualifier)
Olive Tang (HI Qualifier; DUO Qualifier)
Tanish Mendki (HI Qualifier; DUO Qualifier)
Ameya Joshi (DUO Qualifier)
Deetshana Parthipan (OO Qualifier)
Michelle Zheng (HI Qualifier)
Smriti Rangarajan (OO Qualifier)
Tvisha Gupta (OO Qualifier)
NSDA National Speech and Debate Tournament
Eric Lee (1st Place, EXC National Champion; IMP Quarterfinalist; EXPOS Double-Octofinalist)
Shreyassriram Garimella (HI Semifinalist)
Alex Zhang (NX Quarterfinalist; IMP Quarterfinalist)
Aman Desai (IMP Double-Octofinalist)
Olive Tang (HI Qualifier)
Elene Piplani (DI Qualifier)