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Texas usually hosts one of the largest state tournaments in the country and this year’s Texas Forensic Association (TFA) State Tournament lived up to that billing by attracting more than one hundred competitors in International Extemp and ninety-nine competitors in United States Extemp.
In International Extemp, Abhinav Sridharan of Plano Senior High School successfully defended his state championship, achieving a dominating eight rank victory over second place finisher Matthew Feng of Plano West High School. Sridharan took four of the five available first place ranks in the final round. Sridharan becomes the first extemper to win consecutive International Extemp titles at TFA since Jeff Geels of Southlake Carroll High School won three consecutive championships between 2003 and 2005. Junyuan Tan of Alief Kerr High School was the third place finisher.
Saint Mary’s Hall won its first TFA extemp championship in United States Extemp when Marshall Webb edged out Neil Patel of Plano West High School by one rank. Webb won a majority of the first place ranks in the final round, but Patel’s string of second place ranks was nearly enough to win as Webb’s other two final round ranks were three’s. David Dam of Westwood High School finished in third place.
All of the finalists at the tournament received an automatic qualification to the 2015 Extemp TOC at Northwestern University. Six extempers were not previously qualified to this year’s TOC and thereby earn an entry into the tournament this May.
Here are the results of the 2015 Texas Forensic Association State Tournament (Click here for tab sheet)
International Extemp
Champion: Abhinav Sridharan (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
2nd: Matthew Feng (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
3rd: Junyuan Tan (Alief Kerr High School, Texas)
4th: Azhar Hussain (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
5th: Lindsey Li (Cinco Ranch High School, Texas)
6th: Tiffany Wang (Guyer High School, Texas)
Semi-Finalists
*Perry Alagappan (Clear Lake High School, Texas)
*Aprotim Basu-Roy (Westlake High School, Texas)
*Maxim Belov (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
*Nicholas Curtis (Westwood High School, Texas)
*Lyle Derden (Houston Lamar High School, Texas)
*Phoebe Lin (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Rupasri Shankar (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Shreetika Singh (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
*Kishan Srikanth (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Hina Uddin (Foster High School, Texas)
*Mark Wilson (The Parish Episcopal School, Texas)
*Joshua Yang (Clements High School, Texas)
Quarter-Finalists
*Mohammad Asif (Clements High School, Texas)
*Zain Aziz (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Summer Gregurek (Victoria East High School, Texas)
*Ayesha Karnik (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Sarah Lanier (Northland Christian School, Texas)
*Amber Liu (Bellaire High School, Texas)
*Walton-Gray Martin (Friendswood High School, Texas)
*Simbai Mutandiro (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
*Darren Pomida (Westwood High School, Texas)
*Colin Price (Cypress Creek High School, Texas)
*Aaron Raj (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Blake Seaman (Allen High School – Lowery Freshman Center, Texas)
*Saurabh Sharma (Allen High School – Lowery Freshman Center, Texas)
*Madeline Spears (Guyer High School, Texas)
*Nader Syed (C.T. Johnson High School, Texas)
*Mafaaz Tanzeem (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
*Samuel Tekie (Houston Lamar High School, Texas)
*Ashley Tsao (Garland High School, Texas)
*Rohan Vaidya (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
*Mark Werner (Prosper High School, Texas)
United States Extemp
Champion: Marshall Webb (Saint Mary’s Hall, Texas)
2nd: Neil Patel (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
3rd: David Dam (Westwood High School, Texas)
4th: Gregory Fantin (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
5th: Karna Venkatraj (A&M Consolidated High School, Texas)
6th: Katherine Hu (Jasper High School, Texas)
Semi-Finalists
*Romic Aevaz (Clements High School, Texas)
*Zach Aikman (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
*Steven Clark (Byron Nelson High School, Texas)
*Levi Debose (Houston Lamar High School, Texas)
*Rachel Evans (Salado High School, Texas)
*Angelo Gaunichaux (Westfield High School, Texas)
*Danny Li (Bellaire High School, Texas)
*John Thornton Lindsey (Montgomery High School, Texas)
*Joshua Merritt (La Vernia High School, Texas)
*Rakesh Vijayakumar (Clear Brook High School, Texas)
*Madelyn Warren (Friendswood High School, Texas)
*Natasha Wroblewski (Friendswood High School, Texas)
Quarter-Finalists
*Jacqueline Doan (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Jackson Freeman (Westwood High School, Texas)
*Carlos Gregory (Hendrickson High School, Texas)
*Luke Hogg (Central High School, Texas)
*Shishir Jessu (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Jana Kholy (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Anna Charlotte Lavers (Snyder High School, Texas)
*Priyanka Mara (Westwood High School, Texas)
*Amethyst Marroquin (Harlingen High School, Texas)
*Jeremiah Menslage (Spring Woods High School, Texas)
*Whitley Perryman (Montgomery High School, Texas)
*Graham Anthony Phileger (Crandall High School, Texas)
*Samir Rahi (Clements High School, Texas)
*Jacob Redmon (Richardson High School, Texas)
*Jordan Rojas (Hendrickson High School, Texas)
*Anzhe Wang (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Emma Weatherford (Coram Deo Academy, Texas)
*Justin Yan (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
Extemp Central thanks the Texas Forensic Association for posting the results of the tournament online.