Middle School Season Continues at Northwest and Kauffman School

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The week of February 9th – 14th, 2015 DEBATE-Kansas City held middle school tournaments at Northwest and the Kauffman School as part of DKC’s weeknight tournament series. Combined over 300 students competed at the two events in both policy debate and student congress.

At Northwest head coach Monica Young arranged a special karaoke session during tabulation in the school cafeteria. With song texts on multiple screens hundreds of students were able to sing along to popular songs in between bites of pizza. Meanwhile, the new Kauffman School was beautiful and the judging pool was filled with several members of the Lincoln Prep debate team along other area high school debaters happy to give back by judging younger debaters. Full results and pictures are below.

Results for Northwest

Northwest winners
Northwest winners

Novice House A

  1. Turner Middle School, Ethan Maxey
  2. Turner Middle School, Michelle Smith
  3. Argentine Middle School, Monet Spencer
  4. Foreign Language Academy, Anana Nureini
  5. Turner Middle School, Sabrina Whalen

Novice House B

  1. Foreign Language Academy, William White
  2. Foreign Language Academy, Maya Keeney
  3. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, Brandi Burton
  4. Argentine Middle School, Trevion Batts
  5. Northwest Middle School, Janiyah Tadlock 
Northwest congress room
Northwest congress room

House A

  1. Smith-Hale Middle School, Yusuf Khan
  2. Coronado Middle School, Jose Ramirez-Lopez
  3. Smith-Hale Middle School, Andrew Frazier
  4. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Leon Brown, Jr.
  5. Coronado Middle School, Aubrey Her 

House B

  1. Arrowhead Middle School, Katie Hogue
  2. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Faith Brownell
  3. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, De’na Newborn
  4. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Adriana Suarez
  5. Northwest Middle School, Micah Emery

House C

  1. Smith-Hale Middle School, Ka’Vahseion Cheadle
  2. University Academy Middle School, Joardy Looney
  3. Northwest Middle School, Le’Andrea St Clair
  4. Smith-Hale Middle School, Dionna Moore
  5. West Middle School, Jonah Andrews

House D

  1. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, Marquies Johnson
  2. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Timothy McLaughlin
  3. Arrowhead Middle School, T’Khara Jones
  4. Foreign Language Academy, Henry Valdivia
  5. University Academy Middle School, ShaKara McCalley 
Northwest policy debate round
Northwest policy debate round

Novice Policy Speakers

  1. Foreign Language Academy, Carina Martinez
  2. Barstow School, Emma Jenkins
  3. Barstow School, Tyler Sabapathy
  4. Barstow School, Aasim Hawa
  5. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Kasey Romo-Nieves

Novice Policy Teams

  1. Foreign Language Academy, Carina Martinez and Martha Delatorre
  2. Barstow School Aasim Hawa and Miles Luce
  3. Argentine Middle School, Arleth Ramos and Elizabeth Walters
  4. Barstow School, Zoe Brous and Emma Jenkins
  5. Barstow School, Luke Lapatofsky and Tyler Sabapathy 

Open Policy Speakers

  1. Barstow School, Kristin Tingle
  2. Barstow School, Sam Short
  3. Foreign Language Academy, Andrew Valdivia
  4. Barstow School, Taha Fanaswala
  5. Coronado Middle School, Ashlynn Freeman 
Northwest policy award winners
Northwest policy award winners

Open Policy Teams

  1. Foreign Language Academy, Sam Keeney and Andrew Valdivia
  2. Barstow School, Paul Case and Sam Short
  3. Barstow School, Hannah Tadros and Julia Butch
  4. Foreign Language Academy, Monica Bates and Aaron (Max) Baker
  5. Barstow School, Kristin Tingle and Tyler Durwood 

Team Sweepstakes Award

  1. Foreign Language Academy
  2. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science
  3. Barstow School 

Results for Kauffman School

Policy debaters
Policy debaters

House A

  1. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, Marquies Johnson
  2. Faith Academy, Sequoia Wilson
  3. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, De’na Newborn
  4. Faith Academy, Kirsten Jackson
  5. Faith Academy, Nicholas Baker 

House B

  1. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, Erika Scott
  2. Rosedale Middle, Kassandra Guerra
  3. Faith Academy, Aliyah Webb
  4. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, Mariyah Haliburton
  5. Faith Academy, Karen Dorsainville 

Top 3 Varsity Speakers

  1. Foreign Language Academy, Sam Keeney
  2. Foreign Language Academy, Andrew Valdivia
  3. Alta-Vista Middle School, Jeseka McDaniel 

Top 3 Novice Speakers

  1. Kauffman School, Marc Hill
  2. Kauffman School, Donovan Herron
  3. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, Dacoda Sublett
Policy award winners at Kauffman
Policy award winners at Kauffman
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