6th National Championships

Scranton High School & University of Scranton

Scranton, PA

April 15-18, 2011

Offered Policy Debate & Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Policy Debate

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its military and/or police presence in one or more of the following: South Korea, Japan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey.

Winner: Damien School — Nadeem Farooqi & Pablo Gannon
Runner Up: Westminster Schools — Daniel Taylor & Ellis Allen

Top Speaker: Pablo Gannon — Damien
Runner Up: Ellis Allen — Westminster

Baker Cup: Daniel Taylor & Ellis Allen, The Westminster Schools

Educator of the Year Award: Aaron Timmons, Greenhill School
Tournament of the Year Award: Malcolm A. Bump Memorial at Hendrick Hudson High School (hosted by Jim Menick)
Rising Star Award: Abby Schirmer, Stratford Academy
Service Award: Rich Edwards, Baylor University (TX)


High school basketball tournament bracket showing matchups and results for teams from Westminster, Greenhill, Jesuit, Lexington, St. Marks, Carrollton, Montgomery Bell, Lexington EV, Georgetown, Chattahoochee, Damien, Stratford, and Greenhill. The winners are indicated, leading to the final champion, Damien School.

Elim Seeds

  1. Westminster — Ellis Allen & Daniel Taylor

  2. Lexington — Tyler Engler & Arjun Vellayappan

  3. Damien — Nadeem Farooqi & Pablo Gannon

  4. St. Mark's — Rishee Batra & Alex Miles

  5. Carrollton Sacred Heart — Anna Dimitrijevic & Fabiola Urdaneta

  6. Stratford Academy — Andrew Jones & Hemanth Sanjeev

  7. Georgetown Day — Joe Krakoff & Ben Levy

  8. Dallas Jesuit — Ryan Gorman & Sullivan McCormick

  9. Lexington — Jack Caporal & Michael Suo

  10. Chattahoochee — Will Caplan & Viveth Karthikeyan

  11. Greenhill — Akshay Bhushan & Lyall Stuart

  12. Montgomery Bell Academy — Kelly Haselton & Jesse Suh

  13. Greenhill — Kush Patel & Chris Patterson

  14. Westminster — Will Morgan & Robel Worku

  15. Georgetown Day — Michael Barclay & David Herman

  16. Greenhill — Sankalp Banerjee & Azhar Unwala


Speaker Awards

  1. Pablo Gannon — Damien

  2. Ellis Allen — Westminster

  3. Daniel Taylor — Westminster

  4. Anna Dimitrijevic — Carrollton Sacred Heart

  5. Alex Miles — St. Mark's

  6. Arjun Vellayappan — Lexington

  7. Mimi Sergent-Leventhal — Edina

  8. Rishee Batra — St. Mark's

  9. Tyler Engler — Lexington

  10. Erin Sielaff — Edina

  11. Joe Krakoff — Georgetown Day

  12. Michael Suo — Lexington

  13. Srinidhi Muppalla — Centennial

  14. Will Morgan — Westminster

  15. Donald Grasse — Homewood-Flossmoor