Quarter-finalists have been posted at the 2011 NFL National Tournament. The thirty-one extempers who have advanced in International Extemp and the thirty that have advanced in United States Extemp will fight it out tomorrow morning and by late tomorrow we will know the names of the six extempers who will be in Saturday’s final rounds.
As per usual, the octofinal round claimed several notable names in this year’s National Points Race and from around the national circuit. Ben Constine, the winner of this year’s Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions, was the highest ranked National Points Race competitor to fall. Alessandro Pauri, who was the combined winner of St. Mark’s this year in the National Points Race, was also eliminated in IX. Paavan Gami, who was in the top twenty-five heading into NFL, was eliminated and Justin Kieran, who won the Liberty Bell Classic this year, were also knocked out in IX. The octofinal round was also unkind to many of this year’s participants of the Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin, as Pauri, Matthew Yasuoka, and Susan Czaikowski were eliminated. Czaikowski was the biggest name to fall in USX, as she had been a semi-finalist last year in Kansas City.
International Extemp
*(T25) Rishi Bajaj (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*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)
*Alex Daniel (Dobson High School, Arizona)
*(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)
*Allison McKibban (El Dorado High School, Kansas)
*(4) Curan Mehra (Scarsdale High School, New York)
*Milap Mehta (Downers Grove South High School, Illinois)
*(T52) Daniel Morgan-Russell (George Washington High School, Colorado)
*Philip Mulder (Portage Northern High School, Michigan)
*(51) Akshay Narayanan (Plano Senior 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)
*(103) Michael Samuels (Cherry Creek High School, Colorado)
*Johnathan Singelton (Gabrielino High School, California)
*(2) Dylan Slinger (Lakeville South High School, Minnesota)
*Aaron Sun (Gabrielino High School, California)
*(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)
*(T25) Neal White (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
*Joelle Wight (Blue Springs High School, Missouri)
United States Extemp
*Adithya Balaji (Eastview High School, Minnesota)
*Richard Clark (Cardinal Mooney High School, Ohio)
*Ryan Cunningham (Fullerton Joint Union High School, California)
*Jonathan Deckert (Shawnee Heights High School, Kansas)
*Jacob Decoteau (Danville High School, Pennsylvania)
*(1) Nathaniel Donahue (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*(11) Shikha Garg (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Bryton Hiatt (Plymouth High School, Indiana)
*Foster Honeck (The Pembroke Hill School, Missouri)
*Teddy Huerta (Dickson County High School, Tennessee)
*(T35) Samantha Karas (Lincoln East High School, Nebraska)
*(27) Jason Kim (Monte Vista High School, California)
*Elizabeth Kleinhenz (Wooster High School, Ohio)
*William McDonald (Brophy College Preparatory, Arizona)
*(6) Jared Odessky (Nova High School, Florida)
*Robert H. Peck (Riverton High School, Wyoming)
*Bijan Poustinchian (Monte Vista High School, California)
*(T39) Andrew Pregler (Mercyhurst Preparatory School, Pennsylvania)
*Forrest Richardson (Savannah R3 High School, Missouri)
*Edward Roberge (Downers Grove South High School, Illinois)
*(19) Jason Singh (Green Valley High School, Nevada)
*Vijay Singh (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*(T67) Brandon Slotkin (Nova High School, Florida)
*(31) Amode Tembhekar (Leland High School, California)
*Lauren Nicole Tolat (Westfield High School, Texas)
*(8) Peter Vogel (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Qian Wang (Mason High School, Ohio)
*Alex Wasdahl (Jackson High School, Ohio)
*Kelly Wu (Leland High School, California)
*(15) Kevin Ye (Gabrielino High School, California)
Extemp Central wishes all of the quarter-finalists the best of luck tomorrow and when we know of semi-finalists, we will post them here tomorrow afternoon.
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