Adam Johnson, the tournament director of the Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin, recently released the sixteen participants of this year’s event, which will take place in person in Nashville, Tennessee on March 4-6. MBA will be the first major tournament of the season and will be a second tier tournament, awarding 150 National Points Race points to the winner and points to extempers that make the top six.
This year’s field features extempers from ten states, with five of the top ten extempers in the National Points Race participating. Two schools – Plano West Senior High School (TX) and the Harker School (CA) – have multiple extempers competing.
Congratulations to the following extempers for being invited to this year’s round robin!
*Peter Alisky (Smoky Hill High School, Colorado)
*Katelyn Cai (BASIS Scottsdale, Arizona)
*William Chien (The Harker School, California)
*Chirag Choudhary (Unionville High School, Pennsylvania)
*Mukta Dharmapurikar (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*Gabriel Frank-McPheter (Gabrielino High School, California)
*Charles Hou (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Michelle Jin (The Harker School, California)
*Daniel Kind (Lake Highland Preparatory, Florida)
*Kyle Letterer (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*McKinley Paltzik (Phoenix Country Day School, Arizona)
*Cameron Roberts (Jack C. Hays High School, Texas)
*Cade Savoy (Teurlings Catholic High School, Louisiana)
*Alex Sorgini (LaSalle College High School, Pennsylvania)
*Ananth Veluvali (Edina High School, Minnesota)
*Faye Zhang (Eastview High School, Minnesota)