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According to Extemp Central’s unofficial calculations, this year’s NSDA National Tournament attracted 487 extempers, with 242 extempers competing in International Extemp and 245 in United States Extemp. This is three more total extempers than last year’s national tournament. International Extemp is six entries larger than last year, while U.S. Extemp was down three entries. This fluctuation is due to the NSDA’s automatic qualification system for underclassmen finalists and semi-finalists.
The first six rounds of the tournament featured no surprises as all seven competitors in the hunt for the National Points Race remain alive. As the tournament progresses, Extemp Central will provide updates as to how the National Points Race is being affected. One of the big stories to watch at this point is that if Justin Graham of Trinity Preparatory School (FL) reaches the quarter-final round then that mathematically eliminates Phoebe Lin of Plano West Senior High School (TX) and Noah Wexler of Nova Senior High School (FL) from the competition as Lin and Wexler would be unable to overtake Graham even if they won the tournament and the final round title.
All four competitors that reached last year’s final rounds – Rohan Dhoopar of Bellarmine College Preparatory (CA) in International Extemp and Jasper Primack of Newton South High School (MA), Josh Wartel of Lake Braddock Secondary School (VA), and Brian Yu of Monte Vista High School (CA) in United States Extemp – cleared to octo-finals.
While there fifty-one underclassmen that broke to elimination rounds at this year’s national tournament, no freshman competitors did so.
Extempers will compete in their two octo-final rounds this afternoon and the NSDA will release the names of the thirty quarter-finalists later this evening.
Below is a complete listing of this year’s octo-finalists. All of these competitors will receive National Points Race points. Finalists from last year are indicated in red, while underclassmen octofinalists are indicated in blue. A competitor’s pre-NSDA National Points Race ranking is also indicated by their name. Those extempers who are not ranked will not have any designation.
International Extemp
*Eli Abboud (Jackson High School, Ohio)
*Moyo Abiona (Carl Sandburg High School, Illinois)
*Phoebe Alpern (Liberty Senior High School, Missouri)
*Ben Anderson (Liberty Senior High School, Missouri)
*(2) Brian Anderson (LaRue County High School, Kentucky)
*(T20) Vaikunth Balaji (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*(T73) Charlie Barton (Regis High School, New York)
*Aprotim Basu-Roy (Westlake High School, Texas)
*Jacob Beedle (Salem High School-Salem, Virginia)
*Parker Breza (Benilde-St. Margaret’s School, Minnesota)
*Owen Chang (Miramonte High School, California)
*Jared Chenevey (North Lamar High School, Texas)
*Johnathan Christy (Lee’s Summit High School, Missouri)
*Steven Chun (Hillsdale Central High School, Illinois)
*(T58) Justin Cooper (Scarsdale High School, New York)
*Bethany Dain (Belleville West High School, Illinois)
*(32) Rohan Dhoopar (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*(60) Daniel Drane (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*(72) Jason Fisher (Highlands Ranch High School, Colorado)
*Kendall Gardner (Fishers High School, Indiana)
*(81) Daniel Ginsburg (Miramonte High School, California)
*(11) Jack Glaser (George Washington High School, Colorado)
*(1) Justin Graham (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Matt Greydanus (Grand Rapids Christian High School, Michigan)
*William Hale (Magnolia High School, Texas)
*Lane Hedrick (Rowan County Senior High School, Kentucky)
*Clayton Michael Jacobs (Torrey Pines High School, California)
*Austin Jang (Union High School, Washington)
*Justin Kang (Syosset High School, New York)
*(18) Vinesh Kannan (Illinois Math and Science Academy, Illinois)
*Seckin Kara (Dallastown Area High School, Pennsylvania)
*(T141) Elizabeth Kingaby (Central Cabarrus High School, North Carolina)
*Megan Kline (El Dorado High School, Kansas)
*(16) Andrew Langford (Lake Highland Preparatory School, Florida)
*(12) Davis Larkin (The Parish Episcopal School, Texas)
*(5) Yijia Liang (Upper Arlington High School, Ohio)
*(6) Phoebe Lin (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Siriana Lundgren (Skyview High School, Montana)
*Varoon Pazhyanur (Eastview High School, Minnesota)
*Stefan S. Petrovic (Lawrence High School, Kansas)
*Priyanka Podugu (Jackson High School, Ohio)
*Shyanne Redlin (Watertown High School, South Dakota)
*(27) Mark Rinder (Freehold Township High School, New Jersey)
*Kylee Elizabeth Rippy (Plymouth High School, Indiana)
*(4) Eitan Sapiro-Gheiler (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*(T49) Rupasri Shankar (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Roman Shemakov (McClintock High School, Arizona)
*(T35) Olivia Shoemaker (Lakeville North High School, Minnesota)
*(T92) Shreetika Singh (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
*(T89) Adele Stock (Nova Senior High School, Florida)
*(T58) Samhitha Sunkara (Ardrey Kell High School, North Carolina)
*Varun Suresh (Archbishop Mitty High School, California)
*Neil Tagare (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*(T62) Jacob Thompson (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*Jaelithe Virgin-Downey (Clayton High School, Missouri)
*(42) Michael Wang (Dreyfoos School for the Arts, Florida)
*(7) Noah Wexler (Nova Senior High School, Florida)
*Phillip Whipkey (Neosho High School, Missouri)
*(22) Patrick Wilson (Booker T. Washington High School, Oklahoma)
*(T54) Alex Ye (Gabrielino High School, California)
United States Extemp
*(17) Thomas Abel (The Delbarton School, New Jersey)
*Jordan Auzenne (Pflugerville High School, Texas)
*Zach Avis (Prior Lake-Savage School, Minnesota)
*(T89) Alex Baker (Eastview High School, Minnesota)
*Matthew Barad (Air Academy High School, Colorado)
*(T82) Aaron Lundin Baum (Miramonte High School, California)
*(46) Varun Bhatia (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*(52) Kendra Blandon (Cypress Bay High School, Florida)
*Daniel James Brophy (Downers Grove North High School, Illinois)
*Jack Bruno (Wadsworth City School, Ohio)
*(T69) Micah Cash (Booker T. Washington High School, Oklahoma)
*(T92) Steven Clark (Byron Nelson High School, Texas)
*Julia Couillard (Downers Grove South High School, Illinois)
*Cole Culp (Neosho High School, Missouri)
*Dylan Dawson (Norman North High School, Oklahoma)
*(53) Cassandra Dinh (Schurr High School, California)
*(61) Noah Eckberg (East Ridge High School, Minnesota)
*(T92) Rachel Evans (Salado High School, Texas)
*Berthy Feng (Laurel School, Ohio)
*Andrew F. Figueiredo (Wichita East High School, Kansas)
*Viraat Goel (University High School, Illinois)
*Mary Grace Gorman (Wooster High School, Ohio)
*Mylan Gray (Sumner Academy, Kansas)
*Emma Gunnar (Blue Valley High School, Kansas)
*Maureen Haynes (Union High School, Oklahoma)
*(T13) Ethan Hu (Leland High School, California)
*Peter Joyce (Syosset High School, New York)
*(9) Shawn Kant (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Christopher Kivlahan (Prospect High School, Illinois)
*Zoe Lawson (Howell North High School, Missouri)
*(T28) Connor Leech (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*(T24) Jacob Levenson (Nova Senior High School, Florida)
*Gracie Mahoney (St. Agnes Academy, Texas)
*Ria Mazumdar (Albuquerque Academy, New Mexico)
*Nathan McClendon (Manhattan High School, Kansas)
*Natasha Menon (Brophy College Preparatory, Arizona)
*Bharat Modi (Cary Academy, North Carolina)
*Jake Z. Moore (Lincoln Southeast High School, Nebraska)
*Amanda B. Morrison (Central High School-Springfield, Missouri)
*Madison Morrissette (Millard North High School, Nebraska)
*(15) Vishal Narayanaswamy (James Madison Memorial High School, Wisconsin)
*Jayne O’Dwyer (Laurel School, Ohio)
*Ryan Olson (Monte Vista High School-Danville, California)
*(T73) Neil Patel (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Rachel Pomerantz (Providence High School, North Carolina)
*(T13) Jasper Primack (Newton South High School, Massachusetts)
*(T92) Collin Quigley (Holy Ghost Preparatory, Pennsylvania)
*(8) Nathaniel Saffran (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Sankalp Singh (Plano Senior High School)
*(T20) Jay Sirot (Montville Township High School, New Jersey)
*Meeka Smith (Muldrow High School, Oklahoma)
*Mike Smith (Palatine High School, Illinois)
*Nick Sundberg (Stevensville High School, Montana)
*(T92) Alexander L. Trobough (Sumner Academy, Kansas)
*(38) Karna Venkatraj (A&M Consolidated High School, Texas)
*(T139) Bryan Yuan Wang (Miramonte High School, California)
*(3) Josh Wartel (Lake Braddock Secondary School, Virginia)
*(33) Marshall Webb (Saint Mary’s Hall, Texas)
*(T92) Brian Xu (San Marino High School, California)
*(34) Brian Yu (Monte Vista High School-Danville, California)