KCKPS Tournament Hosts Take Sweeps at Middle and High School Tourneys

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On November 11th Arrowhead Middle School, a Kansas City, Kansas Public School (KCKPS) hosted DKC’s second middle school tournament of the season and captured the first place overall school sweepstakes prize. A week later on November 18th, Washington HS, another KCKPS school, hosted DKC’s fourth high school tournament and took home the sweepstakes prize, proving a possible host tournament advantage. DKC and its member schools are grateful for both hosts, even if they really made the most of it.

The DEBATE-Kansas City season keeps moving along with strong participation from over 30 schools and more than 400 participants to date. Results from these last tow tournaments are below.

Arrowhead Results

Sweepstakes Awards

  1. Arrowhead Middle School
  2. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy
  3. Barstow School 
Awards winners at Arrowhead
Awards winners at Arrowhead

Novice Policy Speakers

  1. Turner Middle School, Anthony Quiroga
  2. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Savannah Miller
  3. Barstow School, Miles Luce
  4. Barstow School, Eric Kushnir
  5. Barstow School, Ajay Guduputi 

Novice Policy Teams

  1. Arrowhead Middle School, Andrew Guevara and Deb Vasquez
  2. Barstow School, Miles Luce and Aasim Hawa
  3. Barstow School, Humza Kahn and Eric Kushnir
  4. Turner Middle School, Anthony Quiroga and Matthew Jones
  5. Barstow School, Sam Short and Darrius Hughes

Varsity Policy Speakers

  1. Barstow School, Hannah Tadros
  2. Foreign Language Academy, Aaron (Max) Baker
  3. Barstow School, Haley Turner
  4. Argentine Middle School, Elizabeth Walters
  5. Barstow School, Kristin Tingle 

Varsity Policy Teams

  1. Barstow School, Hannah Tadros and Haley Turner
  2. Foreign Language Academy, Sam Keeney and Andrew Valdivia
  3. Barstow School, Tyler Durwood and Kristin Tingle
  4. Coronado Middle School, Ashlynn Freeman and Daniel Arroyo
  5. Barstow School, Shaunak Lockre and Taha Fanaswala 
DKC congress roo
DKC congress room at Arrowhead

6th Grade House A

  1. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, Erika Scott
  2. Northwest Middle School, Alexander Gaitan-Pinela
  3. Coronado Middle School, Aubrey Her
  4. Arrowhead Middle School, Celeste Bishop
  5. Arrowhead Middle School, Alexis O’Brien 

6th Grade House B

  1. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, Tylecia Wiley
  2. Arrowhead Middle School, KhaTera Jones
  3. Arrowhead Middle School, Mikayla Mielkus
  4. West Middle School, Evette Conway
  5. Northwest Middle School, Aaron Johnson 

Novice House A

  1. Rosedal, Leona Waylan
  2. Argentine Middle School, Martha Vizcarra
  3. Foreign Language Academy, Henry Valdivia
  4. West Middle School, Deavin Trigg
  5. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Jalah Danks 

Novice House B

  1. Central Middle, Aileen Vera
  2. Center Middle School, Xander Hacking
  3. Rosedale, Kassandra Guerra
  4. University Academy Middle School, Brenadette Looney
  5. University Academy Middle School, Joardy Looney 
Sweeps win
Sweepstakes school winners at Arrowhead

Novice House C

  1. Coronado Middle School, Monique Lee
  2. Turner Middle School, Ethan Maxey
  3. Faith Academy, Kimimela LeDoux
  4. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, KaeShawn Smith
  5. Rosedale, Hailey Whistler 

Open House A

  1. Faith Academy, Karen Dorsainville
  2. Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy, Kyaii Long
  3. Smith-Hale Middle School, Andrew Frazier
  4. Northwest Middle School, Caia Olden
  5. Coronado Middle School, Anthony Lasley

Arrowhead Middle School, Chalil Sanders

Open House B

  1. Smith-Hale Middle School, Dionna Moore
  2. Northwest Middle School, Rebecca Bell
  3. Faith Academy, Aliyah Webb
  4. West Middle School, Precious Conway
  5. Coronado Middle School, Mariah Gatewood

Washington Results 

Winners
Award winners at Washington

Novice Policy Speakers

  1. Patton Junior High, Chayne Dessaso
  2. University Academy, Brandon Fields
  3. University Academy, Mia Scott
  4. Washington High School, Josh Strammel
  5. Washington High School, Angel Johnson
  6. University Academy, Faith Herring
  7. University Academy, Malik Dickerson
  8. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Latitia Murdock
  9. Patton Junior High, Austin Shoffner
  10. Washington High School, Stephen Howard 

Novice Policy Teams

  1. Washington High School, Angel Johnson and Hope Thomas
  2. University Academy, India Sorrells and Brandon Fields
  3. University Academy, Sydnee Strong and Mia Scott
  4. University Academy, Kellan Owens and Malik Dickerson
  5. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Latitia Murdock and Genesis Anderson 

Regular Policy Speakers

  1. Wyandotte High School, Chelsea Delgado
  2. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Valeria Munoz
  3. Central High School, Johnny Potter
  4. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Brandon Bush
  5. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Dru Demby 
Award
Awards celebration at Washington

Regular Policy Teams

  1. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Brandon Bush and Valeria Munoz
  2. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Dru Demby and Ajhanae Franklin
  3. Wyandotte High School, Marcellus Brown and Chelsea Delgado 

Varsity Policy Speakers

  1. Washington High School, Kylah Owens
  2. Washington High School, Faith Johnson
  3. Wyandotte High School, Aminah Muhammad
  4. University Academy, Shawndrea Magee
  5. Allen Village High School, Gyasi Talib 

Varsity Policy Teams

  1. Washington High School, Faith Johnson and Kylah Owens
  2. Wyandotte High School, Gary Bradley-Lopez
  3. University Academy, Jazmyne Smith and Shawndrea Magee 
Policy debate round
Policy debate round at Washington

Student Congress

  1. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Camree Mills-Gladney
  2. Washington High School, Destinee’ Gillom
  3. Washington High School, Brooke Moody
  4. Center High School, Warrior, Queen
  5. Washington High School, Sagar Pal 

Sweepstakes

  1. Washington High School
  2. Sumner Academy of Arts & Science
  3. Wyandotte High School
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