2025 State Qualifiers, from left, front row: Maanya Parikh, Anushree Verma, Cindy Ma, Ria Khatri, Aymana Alam, Gabriella Briscoe, Kate Wu, Sydney Wolfinger, Seth Ermie and Anwyn Sawaya. Back row: Ella Hahn, Shubham Brahme, Patrick Chen, Elyssa Hinesman, Jia Thakker, Nithya Rajan, Iris Weisstein, Jacob Nahhas, Jordan Nahhas and Robinson Zhang. Not pictured: Alex Ban.
2025 State Qualifiers, from left, front row: Maanya Parikh, Anushree Verma, Cindy Ma, Ria Khatri, Aymana Alam, Gabriella Briscoe, Kate Wu, Sydney Wolfinger, Seth Ermie and Anwyn Sawaya. Back row: Ella Hahn, Shubham Brahme, Patrick Chen, Elyssa Hinesman, Jia Thakker, Nithya Rajan, Iris Weisstein, Jacob Nahhas, Jordan Nahhas and Robinson Zhang. Not pictured: Alex Ban.

The Perrysburg Speech and Debate team qualified 21 high school students along with three first alternates to the 97th State Championship Speech and Debate Tournament held February 27 through March 1 at Austintown Fitch High School, Austintown, Ohio. The Perrysburg team joined over 1,000 other students, representing 88 school districts, who competed in fourteen separate categories of public address…