Max Wu

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MAX WU spent 4 years competing on the Mission San Jose HS Public Forum Team, and 2 years in junior high debating MSPDP. Max has seen extensive success countrywide over his career– highlighted with a strong postseason in the 2015-2016 season, where he reached the finals of the Tournament of Champions, finishing one ballot away from being the top team in the nation at the most prestigious competition of the year. Max was also the first team in Mission San Jose's long history to qualify to the TOC in his sophomore year, helping lead the rejuvenation of the school's program after it was shut down years earlier. Among his other achievements, he has advanced into deep elimination rounds at numerous tournaments in a handful of states, and consequently been ranked as one of the national circuit's top teams by various different websites.
Outside of his personal success, Max served as the Public Forum Captain for the MSJ team in the 2015-16 school year and the President in the 2016-17 year. As captain, Max planned lessons and curricula for dozens of novice debaters, working in both one-on-one and group instructional settings to improve specific skills such as research and speech delivery. He also volunteers for baydebate, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing free speech and debate classes to low-income elementary schools across South and Central Fremont. With baydebate, Max has coached at over 4 different schools and met hundreds of students. He looks forward to working as part of the staff with the Golden State Academy.

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Competitive History & Background
- Mission San Jose HS (Fremont, CA 2013-2017)

Competitive History & Honors
-2-Time PF Qualifier to CA State Tournament (2015, 2016)
-3-Time PF Qualifier to the Tournament of Champions (Lexington, KY 2015, 2016, 2017)
-9 career bids and 4 auto-qualifications to the Tournament Champions (as of Dec. 2016)
-Ranked 10th Best PF team in the country by Debaterankings.com, #1 Best PF team in California, #1 Best PF team of 11th graders (2015-2016)
-Ranked 14th Best PF team in the country by VBriefly.com (2015-2016)
-Quarter-Finalist PF @ NCFL Grand National Tournament (Sacramento, CA 2016)
-Quarter-Finalist PF @ The Glenbrooks PF Invitational (Glenview, IL 2016)
-2nd Place PF @ the Tournament of Champions, 8th Speaker (Lexington, KY 2016)
-2-Time First Place PF Champions @ Jon Schambers University of the Pacific Invitational, 2nd Speaker 2015 (Stockton, CA, 2013, 2015) 
-First Place PF Champions @ Silver and Black Invitational, 1st Speaker (Sandy, UT 2014)
-2-Time First Place PF Champions @ Presentation PF Invitational, 3rd Speaker 2014, 1st Speaker 2016 (San Jose, CA 2014, 2016)
-First Place PF Champions @ St. Francis Robert Garcia Invitational, 1st Speaker (San Jose, CA 2013)
-Quarter-Finalist PF @ Nichols Invitational at Harker (San Jose, CA 2015)
-Quarter-Finalist PF @ Apple Valley MinneApple Invitational (Apple Valley, MN 2015)
-Quarter-Finalist PF @ Stanford Invitational (Palo Alto, CA 2016)
-Quarter-Finalist PF @ CA State Tournament (Santa Clara, CA 2016)
-Quarter-Finalist PF @ Presentation PF Invitational (San Jose, CA 2015)
-Quarter-Finalist PF @ Kandi King Round Robin, 1st Speaker (Houston, TX 2016)
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