2016 Results

 61st Annual Barkley Forum for High Schools Tournament

2016 Listing of Exhibition Participants

2016 Silver Key Award Recipients:
Pelham Debates Champions: Anish Dayal and Harrison Hall, Westminster
Pelham Debates Speaker: Zahir Shaikh, Blake
Congressional Debate Champion: Gregory Seabrooks, Oxbridge Academy of Palm Beaches
Lincoln Douglas Champion: Graham Baker, Greenhill

Lincoln Douglas Speaker: Amit Kukreja, Newark Science
Public Forum Champions: Jake Becker and Brandon Becker, American Heritage Plantation

Public Forum Speaker: Garrett Moon, Nova Senior
Extemporaneous Speaking: Chance Boreckzy, James Logan
Original Oratory: Maddie Jarrard, Brentwood Academy
Duo Interpretation: Chase Garrett & Kendal Samuel, Southside
Prose & Poetry: Zhariah Hubbard, Hattiesburg
Humorous Interpretation: Edgar Partida, James Logan
Dramatic Interpretation: Alex Wade, Sacred Heart Catholic

Pelham Debates

Participants in the Anne Douglas White Tutorial:

Participants in the Phyllis Flory Barton Tutorial:

Participants in the Richard B. Sodikow Tutorial:

Participants in the Sandra Worthington Silvers Tutorial:

The SILVER KEY for the Pelham Debates was awarded to:

                        Westminster Schools DH – Anish Dayal and Harrison Hall

The RESERVE KEY for the Pelham Debates was awarded to:

                        Peninsula TW – Raam Tambe and Jerry Wang

Barkley Forum Debaters

The debater accumulating the highest number of speaker points during the preliminary rounds of debate and receiving a Silver Key was:

Zahir Shaikh from The Blake School

The twenty debaters scoring the highest number of points during the preliminary rounds are recognized at the Awards Assembly and are presented with Key trophies.  They are distinguished with the title BARKLEY FORUM DEBATERS. The runners-up to the first place Silver Key award in 2016 were:

2. Emily Gordon from Rowland Hall St Mark’s

3. Name Redacted

4. Fangwei Jin from Edgemont Jr/Sr High School

5. Lenny Brahin from Walter Payton

6. Reid Funston from Pace

7. Carter Levinson from Homewood-Flossmoor

8. Allen Wang from Blake

9. Kai Trepka from Iowa City West

10. Zachary Mohamed from Edgemont

11. Simon Park from Centennial

12. Dan Bannister from Highland Park

13. Luisa Cusick from Walter Payton

14. Faith Geraghty from Niles West

15. Harrison Hall from Westminster Schools

16. Jaden Lessnick from Rowland Hall St Mark’s

17. Nevan Edwards from Baltimore City

18. Vernon Johnson from Law Magnet

19. Alex Kong from Westminster Schools

20. Peymaan Motevalli – Baltimore City College

Extemporaneous Speaking

Participants in the Final Exhibition of Extemporaneous Speaking:

Zac Aikman                Seven Lakes

Nathan Kruse              Battle Ground

Jacob Levenson           Nova Sr

Original Oratory

Participants in the Final Exhibition of Original Oratory:

Brianne Cotter            Stuyvesant

Jaden Gray                  James Logan

Faizaan Sadruddin       NSU University

Humorous Interpretation

Participants in the Final Exhibition of Humorous Interpretation:

Carol Lee                     Riverside

Cooper Smith              Brentwood

Jake Wallack               NSU University

Dramatic Interpretation

Participants in the Final Exhibition of Dramatic Interpretation:

Ben Parker                  Hattiesburg

Chrystal Wilson          Hattiesburg

Alejandro Cuellar        G. Holmes Braddock

Duo Interpretation

Participants in the Final Exhibition of Duo Interpretation:

Katherine Nesbitt & Michael Rankin             Brentwood Academy

Brandon Black & Cooper Smith                     Brentwood Academy

Edgar Partida & Tyra Johnson                       James Logan

Prose and Poetry

Participants in the Final Exhibition of Prose and Poetry:

Faizaan Sadruddin       NSU University

Jolie Sherman              Bloomfield Hills

Malaina Carver           Apple Valley

Lincoln-Douglas Debate

Participants in the Walter Alan Ulrich Tutorial: 

Carter Payne from Park Crossing

Vinayak Kuman from Delbarton

Roshan Sadhwani from Holy Cross

Kris Kaya from Peninsula

Paloma O’Connor from Cambridge Rindge and Latin

Raffi Pillero from Harrison

Jason Yang from Kinkaid

Andrew Perez from Loyola

Bo Slade from Loyola

Sarah Ryan from Harrison

Dino De La O from Law Magnet

Henry Wu from Upper Arlington

Nicole Kastelic from Hawken

Shannon Lee from Stuyvesant

Kyle Yuan from Collegiate

Indu Panday from Harvard Westlake

Participants in the Rhoda Kirchner Radow Tutorial:

Achai Srinivasan from Lexington

Whitley Perryman from Montgomery

Sean McCormick from Strake Jesuit

Michael Corder from Lake Highland Prep

Jacob Ronkin from Nova Southeastern University

Karan Choudhary from Nova Southeastern University

David Min from American Heritage Plantation

Sean Fahey from Benjamin Franklin

Participants in the Patricia Bailey Tutorial:

Bennet Eckert from Greenhill

Jonas Le Barillec from Peninsula

Cameron Cohen from Harvard Westlake

John Overing from Loyola

Participants in the Marilee Dukes Tutorial:

Amit Kukreja from Newark Science

Varad Agarwala from Greenhill

The SILVER KEY for Lincoln Douglas Debate was awarded to:

Graham Baker – Greenhill

The RESERVE KEY for Lincoln-Douglas was awarded to:

Nick Steele – Harvard Westlake

Lincoln-Douglas Speakers

The debater accumulating the highest number of speaker points during the preliminary rounds of debate and receiving a Silver Key was:

Amit Kukreja - Newark Science 

The twenty debaters scoring the highest number of points during the preliminary rounds are recognized at the Awards Assembly and are presented with Key trophies. The runners-up to the first place Silver Key award in 2016 were:

2. Varad Agarwala       Greenhill

3. David Min              American Heritage Plantation

4. Bennett Eckert        Greenhill

5. Sarah Ryan              Harrison

6. Sean McCormick    Strake Jesuit CP

7. Oliver Sussman       Cambridge Ringe and Latin

8. Bo Slade                  Loyola

9. Karan Choudhary   NSU

10. Henry Wu                         Upper Arlington

Congressional Debate

Congressional Debate Exhibition Participants

Andrew Towriss                                 Western

Dora Pekec                                          East Chapel Hill High School

Gabriella Cabeza                                 Western