USX Qualifiers

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Here are the qualifiers to the 2018 National Speech and Debate Association National Tournament in United States Extemporaneous Speaking.  This qualifier board is meant to collect information on the competitors who will be doing extemp in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in June.

If you know the qualifiers from your NSDA District, please e-mail the following information to logan.scisco@topper.wku.edu:

• The name of the NSDA District and the state that is located in
• The names of those who will be ATTENDING nationals in IX and USX. Please do not send us the names of those who technically qualified, but opted to go in another event. We only want the names of those who will be going in the categories to avoid confusion.
• The schools those competitors attend.
• IF your district has an automatic qualifier from last year’s NSDA Tournament (a competitor that reached finals or semi-finals in IX and USX) and that person will be going back to NSDA in that event, please let us know. If you are an automatic qualifier and want to give this information to us yourself, fantastic!

Automatic qualifiers are indicated in red.

California Coast District

*Atul Saha (Bellarmine College Preparatory)
*Ishaan Singhal (Cupertino High School)
*Tyler Vergho (Bellarmine College Preparatory)
*Kyle Wang (Saratoga High School)

Capitol Valley District (CA)

*Luca Moretti (Davis Senior High School)

Central Minnesota District

*Abigail Brachio (Apple Valley High School)
*Julia Scovil (Apple Valley High School)
*Stephanie Zhang (Woodbury High School)

Central Texas District

*Jude McClaren (Jack C. Hays High School)
*Saskia Reford (Saint Mary’s Hall)
*Anne Rubsamen (Saint Mary’s Hall)

Deep South District (AL)

*Sandhura Alduwaka (Prattville High School)
*Trevor Otis (Saint James School)

East Kansas District

*Ben Heigele (Olathe South)
*Alexandra Ruffini (Bishop Miege)
*Paukhansuan Sonna (Sumner Academy)

Eastern Ohio District

*Adam Hamdan (Jackson High School)
*Leah Moore (Perry High School)
*Arjun Shanmugam (Jackson High School)

East Oklahoma District

*Grace Arlan (Jenks High School)
*Grant Beirute (Jenks High School)
*Lauren Woodall (Broken Arrow High School)

Florida Panther District

*Eli Finkelstein (Trinity Preparatory School)
*Bhrajit Thakur (Trinity Preparatory School)

Golden Desert District (NV)

*Sofia Bletnitsky (Palo Verde High School)
*Amelia Knochel (Coronado High School)
*Joel McConnell (Coronado High School)

Greater Illinois District

*Veli Aydoner (Bloomington HS)
*Luke Edwards (Bloomington HS)

Heart of Texas District

*Hannah Herbowy (Chaparral Star Academy)
*Steven Manning (L.C. Anderson High School)

Hudson Valley District (NY)

*Ismail Ameen (Scarsdale High School)
*Arjun Ravi (Scarsdale High School)

Kentucky District

*Caroline Bugg (Danville High School)
*Spencer Schumacher (North Oldham High School)

Magnolia District (MS)

*John Brady Amacker (Petal High School)
*Sarah Berry Peirce (Sacred Heart Catholic School)

Manatee District (FL)

*Grant Bianco (NSU University School)
*Max Pinkiert (NSU University School)
*Tristian Wertanzl (Cypress Bay High School)

New England District

*David Hu (Newton South High School)
*Benjamin Lin (Acton-Boxborough High School)
*Jackson Segal (Needham High School)

New Jersey District

*George Blumenschein (Montville Township High School)
*James Gao (Ridge High School)
*Rohan Jinturkar (Ridge High School)
*Christopher Maximos (The Delbarton School)

North Oregon District

*Joey Miller (Southridge High School)
*Bharath Namboothiry (Westview High School)

Northeast Indiana District

*Ryan Day (Chesterton High School)
*Akshat Piprottar (Canterbury High School)

Northern South Dakota District

*Margaret Fouberg (Aberdeen High School)
*Madison Hetland (Mitchell High School)

Pittsburgh District (PA)

*Rose Gigliotti (Mercer Area High School)
*Ashna Patel (North Allegheny Senior High School)

Puget Sound District (Washington)

Taylor Unoki (Bear Creek School)
Kunal Sinha (The Overlake School)

Rushmore District (SD)

*Katie Osmundson (Lincoln High School)
*Nathaniel Pekas (O’Gorman High School)

San Francisco Bay District

*Raymond Fang (Monte Vista High School-Danville)
*Saad Jamal (Dougherty Valley High School)
*Nikhil Kona (James Logan High School)

Southern Minnesota District

*Henry Bird (Benilde-St Margaret’s School)
*Tanner Jones (Edina High School)
*Mark Kivimaki (Edina High School)

Sunflower District (KS)

*Carson Smith (Wichita Collegiate Upper School)
*Dat Trinh (Wichita Heights)

Tarheel East District (NC)

*Samuel Hand (Homeschool Association of Randolph County)
*Nechama Huba (Durham Academy)

West Iowa District

*Mo (Jocelyn) Marks (Des Moines Roosevelt High School)
*Dylan Morgan (Des Moines Roosevelt High School)

West Los Angeles District (CA)

*Sienna Horvath (ILEAD North Hollywood High School)
*Miles Morton (ILEAD North Hollywood High School)
*Liana Schmitter (Emerson – Campbell Hall High School)

West Oklahoma District

*Caleb Lawson (Moore High School)
*Ella Moxley (Norman North High School)
*Tanvi Saran (Norman North High School)

Western Slope District (CO)

*Victoria Ramsey (Palisade High School)