High School DKC City Champs 2015

DEBATE-Kansas City held its annual City Championship featuring high school policy debate December 5th and 6th on the campus of University of Missouri Kansas City. Chebet Buckner of Lincoln Prep surprised the field in varsity policy debate by winning as a maverick and earned herself a bid to the Urban Debate Nationals in San Francisco, CA this April. Last year DEBATE-KC had the nation’s best showing at the national tournament, winning second and third place and placing four of the top six speakers. With the maverick victory DKC will need to select three debaters to field two debate teams at the national tournament.

The City Championship featured novice, junior varsity and championship policy debate. Speaker awards were given in all divisions and students completed four preliminary rounds. The policy teams with the best records advanced to elimination rounds to determine the winner of each division. The full results are below.

2015 DKC City Championship High School 

Policy Debate Junior Varsity Team Awards

1. Lincoln Prep, Bianca Harvey and Anna Crawford
2. Lincoln Prep, Sakina Bhatti and Alex Thompson
3. Lincoln Prep, CB Cheyenne Clopton and Monica Bates
4. Blue Valley Northwest, Avni Kamat and Hannah Thurlby 

Junior Varsity Top Speakers

1. Lincoln Prep, Alex Thompson
2. Lincoln Prep, Bianca Harvey
3. Lincoln Prep, Sakina Bhatti
4. Lincoln Prep, Anna Crawford
5. Lincoln Prep, Cheyenne Clopton

Policy Debate Novice Team Awards

1. Blue Valley No Neil Ahluwalia and Tommy Donovan
2. Blue Valley No Nikki Kanakadandila and Antonio Linhart
3. Lincoln Prep, Isabelle Fox and Noemi Bravo
4. Blue Valley Northwest, Akash Patel and Chris Quinn 

Policy Debate Novice Speaker Awards

1. Blue Valley Northwest, Antonio Linhart
2. Blue Valley Northwest, Chris Quinn
3. Kauffman School, Jacob Esquivel
4. Blue Valley Northwest, Nikki Kanakadandila
5. Blue Valley Northwest, Tommy Donovan 

Policy Debate Varsity Team Awards

1. Lincoln Prep, Chebet Buckner
2. Sumner Academy, Vanessa Obi and Michael Franklin 

Policy Debate Varsity Speaker Awards

1. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Michael Franklin
2. Lincoln Prep, Ellen Baker
3. Lincoln Prep, Chebet Buckner
4. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Vanessa Obi
5. Wyandotte High School, Gary Bradley-Lopez

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