Octofinalists for this year’s NFL National Tournament have been released. Octofinals conclude this afternoon and quarter-finals and semi-finals will be held tomorrow. All of these participants will earn National Points Race points and all have earned an automatic qualification to next year’s Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions at Northwestern University. We appreciate the National Forensic League for releasing the names of all elimination round participants.
Each extempers rank in this year’s National Points Race, if applicable, has been included next to their name.
International Extemp
*(T25) Rishi Bajaj (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Eli Bernstein (Belleville West High School, Illinois)
*Abhishek Bhargava (Jackson High School, Ohio)
*Luke Bishop (Savannah R3 High School, Missouri)
*(21) Henry Chapman (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
*John Cherian (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*(5) Ben Constine (Yorktown High School, Virginia)
*Jon Cook (Sheboygan North High School, Wisconsin)
*Alex Daniel (Dobson High School, Arizona)
*Sofia Ellis-Curry (Glencoe High School, Oregon)
*Patrick Felke (Plymouth High School, Indiana)
*(22) Paavan Gami (Southside High School, South Carolina)
*(T52) Kohinoor Gill (Desert Vista High School, Arizona)
*(T67) Jackson Gzehoviak (Millard North High School, Nebraska)
*Brent Heard (Upper St. Clair High School, Pennsylvania)
*Diego Henriquez (St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Florida)
*(T33) Justin Kieran (Newton South High School, Massachusetts)
*(T67) Nathan Leyes (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*(23) Louis Li (Monte Vista High School, California)
*(18) Matt Linn (The University School, Florida)
*(16) Ben Mabie (James Logan High School, California)
*Ian MacGillivray (Columbiana High School, Ohio)
*Tushar Madan (Shepton High School, Texas)
*Brady McClure (Carrollton High School, Ohio)
*Amy McCormick (Tahoma High School, Washington)
*Allison McKibban (El Dorado High School, Kansas)
*(4) Curan Mehra (Scarsdale High School, New York)
*(T67) Bijan Mehryar (Monte Vista High School, California)
*Milap Mehta (Downers Grove South High School, Illinois)
*(T52) Daniel Morgan-Russell (George Washington High School, Colorado)
*Philip Mulder (Portage Northern High School, Michigan)
*(T67) Kyle Mulholland (Holy Ghost Preparatory, Pennsylvania)
*(51) Akshay Narayanan (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*(T31) Jay Patel (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*(24) Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Eric Pool (Byron Nelson High School, Texas)
*Grace Pyo (Olentangy Liberty High School, Ohio)
*(62) Bushra Rahman (Alief Elsik High School, Texas)
*(T52) Asheshananda Rambachan (Eastview High School, Minnesota)
*Dhruv Ranadive (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*(13) Matt Rauen (Pennsbury High School, Pennsylvania)
*(T35) Sam Reynolds (Mount Lebanon Senior High School, Pennsylvania)
*Jessica Rubio (Big Spring High School, Texas)
*Brandon Samora (Edison Computech High School, California)
*(103) Michael Samuels (Cherry Creek High School, Colorado)
*(T67) Abhilash Sandireddy (James Madison Memorial High School, Wisconsin)
*Johnathan Singelton (Gabrielino High School, California)
*(2) Dylan Slinger (Lakeville South High School, Minnesota)
*Alex Smith (Benilde-St. Margaret’s High School, Minnesota)
*Aaron Sun (Gabrielino High School, California)
*(T67) Lavanya Sunder (Lamar High School-Houston, Texas)
*(7) Isabelle Taft (Henry W. Grady High School, Georgia)
*Emily Temple-Wood (Downers Grove North High School, Illinois)
*(66) James Thomas (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*Amanda Urban (Durango High School, Colorado)
*Eric Wang (Solon High School, Ohio)
*(T48) Joe Weston (Danville High School, Kentucky)
*(T25) Neal White (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
*Joelle Wight (Blue Springs High School, Missouri)
*Matthew Yasuoka (Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii)
United States Extemp
*Alex Abston (Northland Christian High School, Texas)
*Dylan Adelman (Lakeville South High School, Minnesota)
*Adithya Balaji (Eastview High School, Minnesota)
*(42) Joseph Calder (Cary Academy, North Carolina)
*Ryan Carrigan (Normal West High School, Illinois)
*Richard Clark (Cardinal Mooney High School, Ohio)
*(T67) Kyle Constable (Lee County High School, Georgia)
*Ryan Cunningham (Fullerton Joint Union High School, California)
*(47) Susan Czaikowski (Lamar Consolidated High School, Texas)
*Jonathan Deckert (Shawnee Heights High School, Kansas)
*Jacob Decoteau (Danville High School, Pennsylvania)
*(1) Nathaniel Donahue (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*Alex Eichstadt (Blue Springs High School, Missouri)
*(T39) Gabriel Ferrante (Iona Preparatory, New York)
*Thomas Forrest (Schaumburg High School, Illinois)
*(11) Shikha Garg (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Bryton Hiatt (Plymouth High School, Indiana)
*Foster Honeck (The Pembroke Hill School, Missouri)
*Emma Hong (Munster High School, Indiana)
*Teddy Huerta (Dickson County High School, Tennessee)
*Ahsan Kamal (Lincoln Southwest High School, Nebraska)
*(T35) Samantha Karas (Lincoln East High School, Nebraska)
*(27) Jason Kim (Monte Vista High School, California)
*Adam Kinkley (Union High School, Washington)
*Jacob Kirksey (Lubbock High School, Texas)
*Elizabeth Kleinhenz (Wooster High School, Ohio)
*William McDonald (Brophy College Preparatory, Arizona)
*Alex McNay (Pittsburg High School, Kansas)
*Caroline Miller (Mounds Park Academy, Minnesota)
*Jonathan Mount (Thomas Jefferson High School, Washington)
*(6) Jared Odessky (Nova High School, Florida)
*Svati Pazhyanur (Eastview High School, Minnesota)
*Robert H. Peck (Riverton High School, Wyoming)
*Bijan Poustinchian (Monte Vista High School, California)
*(T39) Andrew Pregler (Mercyhurst Preparatory School, Pennsylvania)
*Andrew Reagan (North Central High School, Indiana)
*Connor Rhodes (Bethany High School, Oklahoma)
*Forrest Richardson (Savannah R3 High School, Missouri)
*Gabriel Riekhof (Savannah R3 High School, Missouri)
*Edward Roberge (Downers Grove South High School, Illinois)
*Paige Settles (Floyd Central High School, Indiana)
*Seiko Shastri (Moorhead Senior High School, Minnesota)
*(T67) Jonathan Sheu (San Marino High School, California)
*Cameron Silverberg (Sherman Oakes Center for Enriched Studies, California)
*(19) Jason Singh (Green Valley High School, Nevada)
*Vijay Singh (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*(T67) Brandon Slotkin (Nova High School, Florida)
*Joseph Summers (Raytown South High School, Missouri)
*(31) Amode Tembhekar (Leland High School, California)
*Lauren Nicole Tolat (Westfield High School, Texas)
*Anna Trinh (Gabrielino High School, California)
*Yan I. Vinarskiy (Cherry Creek High School, Colorado)
*(8) Peter Vogel (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Sneha Walia (Shrewbury High School, Massachusetts)
*Qian Wang (Mason High School, Ohio)
*Alex Wasdahl (Jackson High School, Ohio)
*Tony Welter (Sioux Falls Lincoln High School, South Dakota)
*Kelly Wu (Leland High School, California)
*(15) Kevin Ye (Gabrielino High School, California)
*Brendan Zehner (St. Joseph’s Preparatory School, Pennsylvania)
Extemp Central will bring you the quarter-finalists when that information becomes available. Since there is some lag between when elimination round participants are released and when they are put on the NFL’s website, feel free to comment when you know of future breaks or e-mail them to me at logan.scisco@topper.wku.edu so we can develop a working list for the top 30 and beyond.
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