2011 Harvard National High School Invitational Forensic Tournament: Donahue Wins Second National Points Race Tournament of the Year

Nathaniel Donahue’s streak of top three finishes in the National Points Race continued at Harvard last weekend, as the North Carolina extemper won his second National Points Race tournament of the year.  The victory gives Donahue one hundred points in the National Points Race and provides further distance between he and the rest of the field.  Curan Mehra of Scarsdale High School in New York, who won Yale earlier this season and finished sixth at the Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin in January, placed second.  Shikha Garg of Plano Senior High School in Texas placed third in her third final round appearance at a National Points Race tournament this year.  The other extemper in the final round that was making a multiple final round finish in a National Points Race tournament was Peter Vogel of Ridge High School.  Vogel took third at Yale earlier this year and took fifth last weekend.

All of the elimination round participants earned TOC bids and all of the extempers who made the quarter-final round and beyond earned National Points Race points.  The National Points Race will be updated tomorrow to reflect the results of Harvard and the California Invitational.

Here are the full results.  A .pdf of the results can be found at the tournament website:

Champion:  Nathaniel Donahue (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
2nd:  Curan Mehra (Scarsdale High School, New York)
3rd:  Shikha Garg (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
4th:  Henry Chapman (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
5th:  Peter Vogel (Ridge High School, New York)
6th:  Sam Reynolds (Mount Lebanon Senior High School, Pennsylvania)

Semi-Finalists

*Ben Denton (Pincrest HS, North Carolina)
*Kohi Gill (Desert Vista HS, Arizona)
*Jay Patel (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Andrew Pregler (Mercyhurst Prep School, Pennsylvania)
*Matt Rauen (Pennsbury High School, Pennsylvania)
*Joshua Yun (Flower Mound High School, Texas)

Quarter-Finalists

*Ben Constine (Yorktown High School, Virginia)
*Audrey Denis (Berkeley Carroll School, New York)
*Caitlin Feldewerth (Desert Vista High School, Arizona)
*Gabriel Ferrante (Iona Preparatory, New York)
*Nick Hansen (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Chase Harrison (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
*Matthew Hinojosa (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Neal Oshinsky (Syosset High School, New York)
*Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Brandon Slotkin (Nova High School, Florida)
*David Stauffer (Chanhassen High School, Minnesota)
*Kyra Stephenson (Eagan High School, Minnesota)
*Neal White (Lake Travis High School, Texas)

Octo-Finalists

*Rishi Bajaj (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Jeffry Bilik (Stuyvesant High School, New York)
*Stephen Buell (Regis High School, New York)
*Kimia Dargahi (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
*Paulina Dedaj (The Ursuline School, New York)
*Tim Dominguez (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Matthew Gmitro (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Sarah Hennessey (Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, Massachusetts)
*William Hoenig (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
*Eryn Hughes (St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Florida)
*Morgan Kennedy (Convent of the Sacred Heart, Connecticut)
*Zachary Klein (Montville Township High School, New Jersey)
*Xinjie Luo (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Bruno Mastrodicasas (St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Florida)
*Abhi Mehra (North Allegheny High School, Pennsylvania)
*Arjun Murthy (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Akshay Narayanan (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Mia O’Brian (Freehold Township High School, New Jersey)
*Chuck Richardson (Montville Township High School, New Jersey)
*Nicole Rubin (Syosset High School, New York)
*Nikki Sachdeva (Plano East High School, Texas)
*Brooke Serack (Desert Vista High School, Arizona)
*Sohail Shaikh (Plano East High School, Texas)
*Abhiyant Singh (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*Rona Sun (North Allegheny Senior High School, Pennsylvania)
*Clancy Taylor (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Michael Valdez (Victoria East High School, Texas)
*Vijay Viswanathan (Upper St. Clair High School, Pennsylvania)
*Sneha Walia (Shrewsbury High School, Massachusetts)
*Andrew Willis (Regis High School, New York)

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