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)
Elim Seeds
Westminster — Ellis Allen & Daniel Taylor
Lexington — Tyler Engler & Arjun Vellayappan
Damien — Nadeem Farooqi & Pablo Gannon
St. Mark's — Rishee Batra & Alex Miles
Carrollton Sacred Heart — Anna Dimitrijevic & Fabiola Urdaneta
Stratford Academy — Andrew Jones & Hemanth Sanjeev
Georgetown Day — Joe Krakoff & Ben Levy
Dallas Jesuit — Ryan Gorman & Sullivan McCormick
Lexington — Jack Caporal & Michael Suo
Chattahoochee — Will Caplan & Viveth Karthikeyan
Greenhill — Akshay Bhushan & Lyall Stuart
Montgomery Bell Academy — Kelly Haselton & Jesse Suh
Greenhill — Kush Patel & Chris Patterson
Westminster — Will Morgan & Robel Worku
Georgetown Day — Michael Barclay & David Herman
Greenhill — Sankalp Banerjee & Azhar Unwala
Speaker Awards
Pablo Gannon — Damien
Ellis Allen — Westminster
Daniel Taylor — Westminster
Anna Dimitrijevic — Carrollton Sacred Heart
Alex Miles — St. Mark's
Arjun Vellayappan — Lexington
Mimi Sergent-Leventhal — Edina
Rishee Batra — St. Mark's
Tyler Engler — Lexington
Erin Sielaff — Edina
Joe Krakoff — Georgetown Day
Michael Suo — Lexington
Srinidhi Muppalla — Centennial
Will Morgan — Westminster
Donald Grasse — Homewood-Flossmoor