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According to Extemp Central’s unofficial count of the schematics for International and United States Extemporaneous Speaking, 484 extempers are competing at this year’s National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament. International Extemp has 236 competitors, while United States Extemp has 248. The larger size of USX is due in part to more students pre-qualifying to this year’s national tournament due to their performance at last year’s event in Birmingham.
The top sixty extempers in each category have been released and Extemp Central has listed their names and schools in alphabetical order below. Last year’s USX final round survived the first cut, while IX notables such as Dylan Adelman of Lakeville South High School (MN), Lily Nellans of Des Moines Roosevelt High School (IA), and Miles Saffran of Trinity Preparatory School (FL) live to fight another day. All of the non-senior extempers that reached elimination rounds have automatically qualified to next year’s Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University.
Extempers will compete in their two octo-final rounds this afternoon and the NSDA will release the names of the thirty quarter-finalists later tonight.
Extemp Central congratulates all of the octo-finalists at this year’s NSDA National Tournament.
Key
*Non-senior extempers who qualified for the 2015 Extemp TOC are in italics
*Extempers in red are finalists from last year’s NSDA Nationals.
*Extempers in blue are semi-finalists from last year’s NSDA Nationals.
International Extemp
*Dylan Adelman (Lakeville South High School, Minnesota)
*Talha Ahsan (Eagan High School, Minnesota)
*Ben Anderson (Liberty Senior High School, Missouri)
*Vaikunth Balaji (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Charlie Barton (Regis High School, New York)
*Abhishek Bhargava (Jackson High School, Ohio)
*Aniket Biswas (Buffalo Grove High School, Illinois)
*Haley Brahmbhatt (Chanhassen High School, Minnesota)
*Parker Breza (Benilde-St. Margaret’s School, Minnesota)
*Ian Buckman (Leland High School, California)
*Johnathan Christy (Lee’s Summit High School, Missouri)
*Cara Clark (Beavercreek High School, Ohio)
*Sue Cook (Danville High School, Kentucky)
*Sophia Deng (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
*Rohan Dhoopar (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*Dylan Dickens (Friendswood High School, Texas)
*Alex Doan (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*Justin David Graham (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Matt Greydanus (Grand Rapids Christian High School, Michigan)
*Charles Michael Hinman (Miramonte High School, California)
*Xena Itzkowitz (Freehold Township High School, New Jersey)
*Asher Kalman (Miramonte High School, California)
*Vinnesh Kannan (Illinois Math and Science Academy, Illinois)
*Lyubov Kapko (Tempe Preparatory Academy, Arizona)
*Ayesha V. Karnik (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Brenden Kost (Wauseon High School, Ohio)
*Rohith Kudititpudi (The Harker School, California)
*Hari Kumar (Shrewsbury High School, Massachusetts)
*Joyce Kunishima (Schurr High School, California)
*Davis Larkin (Parish Episcopal School, Texas)
*Phoebe Lin (Plano West High School, Texas)
*Kush Mahajani (Brophy College Preparatory, Arizona)
*Mercer Martin (Willard High School, Missouri)
*Wyatt McGillen (Flathead High School, Montana)
*Tiana Menon (Palisade High School, Colorado)
*Anant Naik (Eastview High School, Minnesota)
*Lily Nellans (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*Isabella Paretti (Cypress Bay High School, Florida)
*Parth Patel (Huntley High School, Illinois)
*Keegan Paugh (Stevens High School, South Dakota)
*Arjun Prakash (Blue Valley High School, Kansas)
*Shreya Rao (Hinsdale Central High School, Illinois)
*Miles Saffran (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Eitan Sapiro-Gheiler (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*Ademali Sengal (Lamar High School – Houston, Texas)
*Erin Sheehan (Millard North High School, Nebraska)
*Jamie Shen (Dougherty Valley High School, California)
*Shreetika Singh (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
*Sidarth Singh (Munter High School, Indiana)
*Gabe Slater (Denver East High School, Colorado)
*Alexander Su (University High School, Illinois)
*Hasan Syed (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Delaine Tubbs (Klein High School, Texas)
*Andrew William Urevig (Robbinsdale Armstrong High School, Minnesota)
*Cory Vandenberg (Air Academy High School, Colorado)
*Rathnam Venkat (Munster High School, Indiana)
*Will Walker (Fullerton Joint Union High School, California)
*Eric Wang (Solon High School, Ohio)
*Alex Ye (Gabrielino High School, California)
United States Extemp
*Carunya Achar (Cypress Creek High School, Texas)
*Cosmo Albrecht (Robert E. Lee High School, Texas)
*Sophia Alvarez (Booker T. Washington High School, Oklahoma)
*Brian Anderson (LaRue County High School, Kentucky)
*Nida Ansari (Riverside High School, South Carolina)
*Nicholas Billings (Thunderbird High School, Arizona)
*Cameron James Bonnewell (Lake Highland Preparatory, Florida)
*Annie Cappetta (Hinsdale Central High School, Illinois)
*Steven Chun (Hinsdale Central High School, Illinois)
*Richard Diurba (Millard West High School, Nebraska)
*Anthony Doak (Holy Trinity Catholic High School, Texas)
*Brian Duricy (Howland High School, Ohio)
*Melissa Eperjesi (Cardinal Mooney High School, Ohio)
*Berthy Feng (Laurel School, Ohio)
*Maeve Fidler (John Handley High School, Virginia)
*Andrew F. Figueiredo (Wichita East High School, Kansas)
*James Gao (Mason High School, Ohio)
*Natasha Garamani (San Marino High School, California)
*Joshua Graham (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Daniel Greene (The University School, Florida)
*Jad Hamdan (Jackson High School, Ohio)
*Chase Harrison (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
*Fatima Shah Hasanain (Miramonte High School, California)
*Miriam Hauptman (Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Missouri)
*Paul Hoyt (Good Shepherd School, Texas)
*Jonathan Hutton (Nova Senior High School, Florida)
*Christopher Jordan (Brophy College Preparatory, Arizona)
*Urvi Joshi (Northrop High school, Indiana)
*Alekh Kale (James Madison Memorial High School, Wisconsin)
*Shawn Kant (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Christopher Kivlahan (Prospect High School, Illinois)
*Jonathan Kumar (Lamar Consolidated High School, Texas)
*John Kurila (Eastview High School, Minnesota)
*Connor Leech (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*Charlie Liao (Monte Vista High School, California)
*Ash Maholtra (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Nathan McClendon (Manhattan High School, Kansas)
*Jenny L. Miller (Washburn Rural High School, Kansas)
*Jake Z. Moore (Lincoln Southeast High School, Nebraska)
*Vishal Narayanaswamy (James Madison Memorial High School, Wisconsin)
*Manasi Patwa (Archbishop Mitty High School, California)
*Jasper Primack (Newton South High School, Massachusetts)
*Arel Rende (Booker T. Washington High School, Oklahoma)
*Joe Russell (Brophy College Preparatory, Arizona)
*Nathaniel Saffran (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Katrina San Nicolas (Northridge High School, Colorado)
*Margaret Schaack (George Washington High School, Colorado)
*Jay Sirot (Montville Township High School, New Jersey)
*Marshall Sloane (Milton Academy, Massachusetts)
*Adam Stromme (Eagan High School, Minnesota)
*Arjun Subramanyam (Canfield High School, Ohio)
*Alexander Trobough (Sumner Academy, Kansas)
*Lauren Tucker (Fulleron Joint Union High School, California)
*Jane Tullis (Valparaiso High School, Indiana)
*Sydney Walter (Salado High School, Texas)
*Josh Wartel (Lake Braddock Secondary School, Virginia)
*Marshall Webb (Saint Mary’s Hall High School, Texas)
*Jacob Wisda (Crescenta Valley High School, California)
*Laura Wolff (Ridge Point High School, Texas)
*Brian Yu (Monte Vista High School, California)