This afternoon Adam Johnson, the tournament director of the Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin, announced this year’s tournament field. The Round Robin will take place January 7-8 on MBA’s campus in Nashville, Tennessee. It is the year’s first major championship.
In a departure from recent editions, no school earned more than one bid to this year’s tournament. Texas has six competitors in the field, more than any other state.
Congratulations to the following extempers for being selected to compete:
*Taylor Burris (The Potomac School, Virginia)
*Amy Cao (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Brandon Cheng (Flintridge Preparatory School, California)
*Tyler Crivella (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
*Lishore Kumar (Tomball Memorial High School, Texas)
*Meghana Kunapareddy (Tompkins High School, Texas)
*Katherine Lee (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Kate Liu (Plano East Senior High School, Texas)
*Sruti Peddi (BASIS Scottsdale, Arizona)
*Isabella Razdan (Lincoln East High School, Nebraska)
*Charlotte Reitman (The University School, Florida)
*Eshaal Ubaid (Stuyvesant High School, New York)
*Siri Ural (Shrewsbury High School, Massachusetts)
*Rohit Vakkalagadda (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*April Zhang (Neuqua Valley High School, Illinois)
*Robert Zhang (Elkins High School, Texas)