Emory Wins the NDT
DALLAS, Texas – Yesterday evening, on the fourth day of competition, the sixty-first National Debate Tournament concluded with a win by the team of Aimi Hamraie and Julie Hoehn of Emory University over the team of Malcolm Gordon and Amy Foster from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. This marks Emory’s sixth final round appearance and third championship.
This also marks the first time in the history of the NDT that a two-woman team has claimed the title.
Full results follow.
DOUBLES
UMKC FG advances without debating
Oklahoma CJ advances without debating
Kansas BJ advances without debating
Georgia CR advances without debating
Emory HH over Emory MP (Nicholas Miller & Pradeep Pramanick)
Wayne State MT def. Michigan State AB (Amit Bindra & Garrett Abelkop)
Northwestern BW def. Gonzaga BS (Grace Saez & Nick Borman)
USC IS def. Texas TW (Chris Thiele & Nick Whitaker)
Dartmouth CO def. Michigan FK (Adam Farra & Dylan Keenan)
Wake Forest GL def. Emory SS (Chip Schwab & Chris Sun)
George Washington SW def. Fullerton MM (Luis Magallon & Brenda Montes)
Harvard AM def. Northwestern CS (Noah Chestnut & Ravi Shankar)
Harvard MR def. Michigan State DR (Jimi Durkee & Andrea Reed)
Berkeley PR def. Idaho State MY (Paul Montreuil & Jessica Yeats)
Kansas JL def. Wichita State CS (Matt Coleman & Chris Stone)
Whitman RS def. Missouri State MM (Meggie Mapes & Michael Mapes)
OCTAS
Emory HH def. Dartmouth CO (Kathryn Clark & Kade Olson)
UMKC FG def. Berkeley PR (Daniel Richards & Jacob Polin)
Oklahoma CJ def. Harvard AM (Eli Anders & Jason Murray)
Wayne State MT def. Kansas JL (Johnson & Lathrop)
Kansas BJ def. George Washington SW (J.R. Sterling & Brett Wallace)
Harvard MR def. Georgia CR (Brent Culpepper & Kevin Rabinowitz)
USC IS def. Whitman RS (Ross Richendrfer & Matt Schissler)
Northwestern BW def. Wake Forest GL (Seth Gannon & Elizabeth Lundeen)
Whitman AC (Sam Allen & Eric Chalfant)
QUARTERS
Emory HH def. Kansas BJ (Brett Bricker & Andrew Jennings)
UMKC FG def. Northwestern BW (Zach Brown & John Warden)
Oklahoma CJ def. USC IS (Alex Iftimie & Mike Smith)
Wayne State MT def. Harvard MR (Tripp Rebrovick & Nikhil Mirchandani)
SEMIS
Emory HH def. Oklahoma CJ (Connor Cleary & Blake Johnson)
UMKC FG def. Wayne State MT (Gabe Murillo & Andy Timmons)
FINALS
Emory HH def. UMKC FG (Malcolm Gordon & Amy Foster)
NDT CHAMPIONS
Emory HH (Aimi Haraie & Julie Hohn)
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Posted from: 66.108.86.201
April 3rd, 2007 19:50
Thank you to Todd Fine for the heads up about this historically significant NDT final round. Congratulations to the debaters and to Melissa Maxcy Wade, Bill Newnam, David Heidt, and company.
Congratulations to Michael Mangus for qualifying to the NDT, an extremely impressive accomplishment for any freshman. This is all the more impressive given that he just started policy this year. Nice job.
I believe Stefan Bauschard was also the tournament host…which is pretty cool. :o)
Posted from: 130.49.58.41
April 3rd, 2007 21:21
as far as i know, the emory debaters names are spelled aimi hamraie and julie hoehn. this is what the official results packet has.
ps: thanks jon
Posted from: 130.49.58.41
April 3rd, 2007 21:25
oh pps the decision was a 4-1, emory was neg. the panel was matheson, topp, slusher, atchison, turner. i think turner was on bottom; not 100% sure.
Posted from: 66.108.86.201
April 3rd, 2007 22:48
Thanks for the correction; that’s spelling of the names that I found on the NDT web site, but upon second look I noticed a few typos on that site, so I’m going to default to what the packet had.
Posted from: 204.15.29.183
April 4th, 2007 00:22
major congrats to the former brookfield central bb team… An NDT quarterfinalist and an NDT double-octofinalist, as sophmores.
2009 NDT Final Round = Brown v. Brinda – Northwestern v. MSU.
Posted from: 152.17.126.229
April 4th, 2007 13:19
squads, competing teams, clearing teams, top speakers: http://groups.wfu.edu/NDT/Photos/NDT2007/2007PhotoCover.htm
Posted from: 207.172.73.91
April 4th, 2007 20:00
congrats to Mangus on qualling,
Oklahoma CJ is sick.
Posted from: 160.39.220.190
April 5th, 2007 03:47
Congrats to OU’s team; they were in semis of NDT nationals, took 2nd place for the Copeland Award, and won CEDA nationals. Very impressive, especially considering their program is less than 5 years old. It will also interest the LD heavy readers of VB to know that Blake Johnson, of OU’s team, cut his teeth in LD, having done it throughout his career at Edmond Santa Fe high school. I’m pleased to say that I have met both Blake and Conor, and I hope OU is showing them lots of love for their accomplishments. They’ve earned it.
Posted from: 207.172.73.91
April 5th, 2007 20:54
Seamus, did Blake do only LD in high school or did he do it along with doing policy? I actually did not know that. There are streams of finals and semis of CEDA online where they run a pretty bad ass K if anyone is interested.
Posted from: 204.180.72.208
April 5th, 2007 22:24
Blake did a couple policy tournaments, but not really enough to call him a policy debater in high school. Also, Conor did policy but he never traveled outside of Oklahoma in high school. They also won Harvard, Wake Forest, Norhtwestern, and they got 3rd and 4th speaker at the NDT (and I can’t remember what place, but both in the top 10 at CEDA nats). And if you want to hear me bitch you can IM me about the Copeland, but suffice to say I don’t think they should have gotten second.
Posted from: 160.39.220.190
April 6th, 2007 01:03
The above is correct as far as what I know about Blake in HS. I judged him in LD at districts in a year where I think he qualified to NFL’s–he was good. I would like to have seen them win the Copeland, but really just because I’m a homer; I didn’t follow the college debate except to keep up on what OU was doing.
Posted from: 160.39.220.190
April 6th, 2007 05:13
Also, to Jason, can you give me the links to those video streams?
Posted from: 76.170.32.21
April 6th, 2007 06:18
Blake went to camp at UNT when it was the championship debate group. Mazin, Mr. Huston and I all taught there.
Posted from: 160.39.220.190
April 6th, 2007 07:30
I’m assuming the above is Bietz. If so, do you happen to know what Mazin is doing these days? His name didnt pop up on the Martindale Hubble index of lawyers, but I know he was interested in maybe working in Germany, so if he is in fact practicing outside of the USA that would explain it.
Posted from: 71.160.56.34
April 6th, 2007 11:43
http://www.susmangodfrey.com/Bio/bio-msbaiti.html
Posted from: 207.172.73.91
April 6th, 2007 13:50
Here’s the link to the site, I’m not quite sure who runs it but it has rounds from CEDA, Northwestern, USC, Harvard, and more.
http://debatevideos.blogspot.com/
Posted from: 130.49.58.41
April 6th, 2007 14:38
im pretty sure that site is run by augustana’s matt moore. its good stuff.
Posted from: 169.229.77.223
April 6th, 2007 17:22
michael,
any particular rounds in there you’d recommend as interesting/educational?
Posted from: 72.64.122.119
April 7th, 2007 21:25
gooo aimi!
Posted from: 65.81.134.129
April 8th, 2007 12:59
congrats mangus
Posted from: 70.144.57.198
April 8th, 2007 14:46
I got judged by Julie Hoehn at Emory’s PFD Final Tourney for their camp. My camp partner and I pulled out the win from the future NDT winner. Even being judged by her is pretty darn cool.