2022 NOF Middle School Championship Award Winners
Congratulations to all the competitors who competed in our high school tournament! We had 38 programs from 9 states (and 2 countries!) compete. Excellent job to all!
And here are your award winners:
Top 5 Individual Middle School Speakers
Tie for Fourth place broken on number of medals, prelim seeds
5th place with 22.5 points from Speech & Debate Institute Olivia Tan
4th place with 22.5 points from Brooks Debate Institute Soumya Prerepa
3rd place with 25 points from Rowan County Middle School Jaylah Lawhorn
2nd place with 27.5 points from Velasquez Academy Wayne Lu
1st place with 30 points from Velasquez Academy Hannah Yang
Top 5 Middle School Team Sweepstakes
Tie for Fourth place broken on number of medals
5th place with 50 points Speech & Debate Institute
4th place with 50 points Brooks Debate Institute
3rd place with 67.5 points QD Learning
2nd place with 95 points Able2Shine
1st place with 117.5 points Velasquez Academy
Middle School Congress
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Olivia Tan
Bronze Velasquez Academy Arnav Merla
Bronze Liangyi Youth Leadership Gary Li
Bronze Velasquez Academy Jerry Yang
Silver Velasquez Academy Samuel Ma
Gold Velasquez Academy Hannah Yang
Middle School LD Speakers
10 Athens Debate Nidih Riju
9 The Golden State Academy Fatema Shiyaji
8 Academy of Higher Learning Madison Lee
7 Athens Debate Veer Bhandari
6 Able2Shine Max Liu
5 The Golden State Academy Harshini Erva
4 QD Learning Claire Song
3 Athens Debate Arjun Bhobe
2 QD Learning Nathan Han
1 Athens Debate Sabin Park
Middle School LD
Bronze Athens Debate Aiden Kim
Bronze Athens Debate Arjun Bhobe
Bronze Athens Debate James Pak
Bronze Athens Debate Neko Javaheri
Bronze QD Learning Nathan Han
Bronze The Golden State Academy Fatema Shiyaji
Silver Athens Debate Sabin Park
Silver Jane Addams Middle School Owen Xuan
Silver Speechtopia LTD Wilbert Zhu
Gold Able2Shine Max Liu
Gold Athens Debate Nidih Riju
Gold QD Learning Claire Song
Middle School Public Forum
Silver Maccabee Academy Bohan Yuan & Nathan Wang
Gold Brooks Debate Institute Rohan Bubna & Ronit Parikh
Middle School Parli
Gold Cogito Debate Aman Talib & Miya Zhu
Gold Cogito Debate Avery Chang & Milin Zhu
Middle School SPAR
Bronze ACLA Network Nathaniel Priyakumar
Bronze Able2Shine Harrison Huang
Bronze Able2Shine Julianne Yang
Bronze Albright Middle School Erica Carranza
Bronze Brooks Debate Institute Meera Anand
Bronze Walter Reed Middle School Weiwei Gao
Silver Able2Shine Hongrui Huang
Silver Cogito Debate Miya Zhu
Silver Velasquez Academy Johnny Shiell
Gold Athens Debate Sabin Park
Gold Brooks Debate Institute Soumya Prerepa
Gold Velasquez Academy Wayne Lu
Middle School DUO
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Jaylah Lawhorn & Lucy Holland
Silver Brooks Debate Institute Soumya Prerepa & Amritha Pallamreddy
Gold Speech & Debate Institute Sienna Whitaker & Jackie Zhou
Middle School Prose
Bronze QD Learning Vanessa Liu
Bronze Wilshire Academy Sean Lee
Bronze QD Learning Alisa Chang
Silver QD Learning Erika Chen
Gold Velasquez Academy Jerry Yang
Middle School Impromptu
Bronze Able2Shine Hongrui Huang
Bronze Able2Shine Sophie Yang
Bronze Able2Shine Harrison Huang
Bronze New Age Learning Bowen Duan
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Kenneth Wang
Bronze The Golden State Academy Aidan Cao
Silver Able2Shine Clemence Wong
Silver Speech & Debate Institute Olivia Tan
Silver Velasquez Academy Wayne Lu
Gold Able2Shine Terry Qi
Gold Velasquez Academy Hannah Yang
Gold Velasquez Academy Samuel Ma
Middle School Persuasive
Bronze Brooks Debate Institute Ridhvi Shetty
Bronze Emerson Community Charter School Sophia Soltis
Bronze Redwood Middle School Annika Gho
Bronze Redwood Middle School Ovee Dharwadkar
Silver ModernBrain Jennifer Dong
Gold Frisco Independent Arshia Gottipaty
Middle School Humorous Interp
Bronze ModernBrain Grace Ableser-Jaffe
Bronze QD Learning Erika Chen
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Jaylah Lawhorn
Bronze Able2Shine Alicia Tang
Silver Redwood Middle School Devika Nair
Gold QD Learning Eric Chang
Middle School Declamation
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Jaylah Lawhorn
Bronze Rowan County Middle School Haylee Miko
Silver Almaden Country Day School Hannah Greene
Silver Almaden Country Day School Abigail Peterson
Gold ModernBrain Grace Ableser-Jaffe
Gold Able2Shine Terry Qi
Middle School Extemp
Bronze Able2Shine Jade Yoo
Bronze The Golden State Academy Max Guo
Bronze Velasquez Academy Angel Song
Bronze Velasquez Academy Arnav Merla
Silver Brooks Debate Institute Rohan Bubna
Gold Speech & Debate Institute Olivia Tan
Gold Velasquez Academy Wayne Lu
Middle School Poetry
Bronze Able2Shine Sophie Yang
Bronze Able2Shine Chen Ma
Bronze Emerson Community Charter School Merrick Cheung
Bronze Louis Armstrong Middle School/SAGE Ashton Goff
Silver Wilshire Academy Michael Yoon
Gold Emerson Community Charter School Sierra Harris
Middle School Drama
Bronze Able2Shine Zhaohua Chen
Bronze Emerson Community Charter School Layla Sadrieh
Bronze ModernBrain Jennifer Dong
Bronze The Golden State Academy Anika Mangla
Silver Nova 42 Academy Anna Cox
Gold Rowan County Middle School Jaylah Lawhorn
Middle School Storytelling
Bronze Almaden Country Day School Harper Buck
Bronze QD Learning Alisa Chang
Bronze QD Learning Erika Chen
Bronze Speech & Debate Institute Larry Lu
Silver Speech & Debate Institute Sienna Whitaker
Gold QD Learning Eric Chang
Middle School Informative
Bronze Brooks Debate Institute Soumya Prerepa
Bronze Cogito Debate Avery Chang
Bronze Velasquez Academy Ryan Rhee
Silver Nova 42 Academy Iris Chiou
Gold Louis Armstrong Middle School/SAGE Lucas Canley
Gold Velasquez Academy Hannah Yang