Southern Minnesota District Qualifier

for the 2024 National Tournament

National Qualifier List

National Qualifiers

The list below represents the events that students are attending the 2024 National Tournament. Some students listed below may have qualified in other events and due to single letter of intent have vacated other positions. The place listed is the actual finish spot in the event.

Senate

• 1^st Place - Jacob Braginsky (Eagan)
• 2^nd Place - Addison Wendt (Bloomington Kennedy)

House

• 1^st Place - Hiba Rahman (Eagan)
• 2^nd Place - Saanvi Seth (Eagan)
• 3^rd Place - Nabiha Kashif (Eagan)
• 4^th Place - Pranika Kumar (Edina)
• 5^th Place - Nithin Palani (Eden Prairie)
• 6^th Place - Brady Sternberg (Eagan)
• 7^th Place - Alison Wandmacher (Robbinsdale Armstrong)
• LCQ - Hannah Hein (Edina)

Public Forum

• 1st Place - Zellie Olson & Eva Redmond (Blake School)
• 2nd Place - Kaylee Chen & Ruhi Kurdikar (Blake School)
• 3rd Place - Devin Lester & Yezul Maharjan (Lakeville North)

Lincoln-Douglas

• 1st Place - Lucy Dreyer (Robbinsdale Armstrong)
• 2nd Place - Jack Timm (Lakeville North)
• 3rd Place - Alice Yi (Lakeville South)

Policy

• 1st Place - Mia Werden & Karyn Wochnick (Eagan)
• 2nd Place - Param Thakkar & Tristin Nguyen (Eagan)
• 3rd Place - Talha Ahmad & Dylan Tate (Rosemount)

Big Questions

• 1st Place - Sahasra Juvva (Eagan)
• 2nd Place - Savannah Smalley (Lakeville North)

International Extemp

• 1st Place - Mina Bhargava (Edina)
• 3rd Place - Louise Nguyen (Lakeville North)
• 5th Place - Siona Kaura (Eden Prairie)
• LCQ - Anokhi Shah (Eagan)
• LCQ - Dominick Lund-May (Fairmont)

US Extemp

• 2nd Place - Keerthik Muruganandam (Edina)
• 3rd Place - Devarsh Borah (Edina)
• 4th Place - Tavishi Chakraborty (Eden Prairie)
• LCQ - Brynja Lockman (Benilde-St. Margaret's)

Dramatic Interp

• 2nd Place - Sherry Muthiga (Eagan)
• 3rd Place - Evangeline Johnson (Lakeville North)
• 5th Place - Kailey Tan (Bloomington Jefferson)
• 6th Place - Kayleigh Taylor (Cotter)

Duo Interp

• 1st Place - Jada Lapastora & Julia Koudelka (Eagan)
• 2nd Place - Adelyn Frost & Meredith Leo (Lakeville North)
• 3rd Place - Grace Simpson & Oliver Thedens (Fairmont)
• LCQ - Ajira Pandey & Vandana Ramanathan (Eden Prairie)
• LCQ - Joelle Sihombing & Gracie Lougheed (Chaska)

Humorous Interp

• 1st Place - Leon Yang (Fairmont)
• 2nd Place - Maizie Moe (Lakeville North)
• 3rd Place - River Repinski (Cotter)
• LCQ - Angelica Mey (Bloomington Kennedy)
• LCQ - Avery Bartlett (Lakeville North)

Informative Speaking

• 1st Place - Halle Browning (Chaska)
• 2nd Place - Mason Hoekenga (Eagan)
• 3rd Place - Ella Raiche (Lakeville North)
• LCQ - Claire Nelson (Rochester Mayo)

Original Oratory

• 2nd Place - Diya Kayaleh (Wayzata)
• 3rd Place - Charese Mutebi (Lakeville North)
• 4th Place - Frantz (Eden Prairie)
• LCQ - Snigdha Yamajala (Eden Prairie)

Program Oral Interp

• 1st Place - Anna Branchini (Lakeville North)
• 2nd Place - Ankita Gurung (Lakeville North)
• 3rd Place - Maeva Djossou (Mayo)

World Schools Debate - Team 1

• Tony Liu (Blake School)
• Krisha Pillai (Blake School)
• Shoumili Tarafder (Blake School)
• Raiden Chen (Blake School)
• Shruti Balachander (Blake School)

World Schools Debate - Team 2

• Anh Do (Lakeville North)
• Austin Siefken (Lakeville North)
• Ezana Haile (Lakeville South)
• Lily Plahn (Robbinsdale Cooper)
• Raina Nehreen (Robbinsdale Armstrong)