“The Lincoln tournament was very impressive. The school’s staff, students and parents all pitched-in and everything went on time. I can students are progressing because I heard some the year’s best speeches,” said Gabe Cook, Director of DEBATE-Kansas City. 

Lincoln Prep took advantage of the home turf, capturing another sweepstakes title. However, DKC students from across the area certainly shined. Chris Childs of Coronado had a break out tournament taking down first place in House B.

“The league has an incredible depth of talent as compared to a couple years ago,” said Lawrence Cardenas, a regular DKC volunteer.  “Now that students and coaches have a couple years of experience under their belt we are getting to see some great debates,” he concluded.  

A full list of results follows:

Sweepstakes

1^st Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

2^nd Foreign Language Academy

3^rd Center Middle School

Senate

1^st Paula Odu, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

2^nd Sam Arnold, Center Middle School 

3^rd Riley Kelly, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

4^th Courtney Smith, Foreign Language Academy 

5^th Angel Therman, Foreign Language Academy

House A

1^st Lee Barnes, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

2^nd Ryan Burley, Thatcher @ Northeast Middle School

3^rd James Shakera, Coronado Middle School  

4^th Trigg Brewer, Turner Middle School  

5^th Sedrick Weaver, Coronado Middle School

House B

1^st Chris Childs, Coronado Middle School  

2^nd Aaron Brown, Turner Middle School  

3^rd Brashunna McClendon, Foreign Language Academy

4^th Jose Manrique Gonzalez, Thatcher @ Northeast Middle School  

5^th Mustafa Muhammad, Thatcher @ Northeast Middle School

House C

1^st Sage Magee, Turner Middle School  

2^nd Jared Freemon, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

3^rd Ben Franco, Coronado Middle School  

4^th Nick Cianciolo, Center Middle School  

5^th Ryan Alexander, Turner Middle School 

House D

1^st Deja Benton, Foreign Language Academy

2^nd Riley Kelly, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy*

2^nd Victoria Lindsey, Arrowhead Middle School

3^rd Anya Doynov, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

4^th Anna Hirsekorn, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

5^th Jessica Moreno, Foreign Language Academy

House E

1^st Olivia Taylor Butler, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

2^nd Lloyd, Taejay, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

3^rd Dyamond Benton, Attucks Middle School  

4^th Brittany Kinney, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

5^th Dazcha Mitchell-Davis, Foreign Language Academy

House F

1^st Hunter Muller, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

2^nd Ciara May, Foreign Language Academy

3^rd Victoria Beristain, Arrowhead Middle School  

4^th Cynthia Odu, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

5^th Sidney Matthews, Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy

House G

1^st James Paisley, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

2^nd Hope Noll, Center Middle School  

3^rd Alaxander Lucas, African Centered Education

4^th Taylor, DeAnglea, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

5^th Staci Taylor, Central Middle School

House H

1^st Ximena Pecina, Foreign Language Academy

2^nd Camila Rivera, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

3^rd,Autumn Chartier, Argentine Middle School  

4^th Janae Robertson, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

5^th Ciara Rucker, Lincoln College Preparatory Academy

Novice House

1^st Ebony Hall, Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy

2^nd Austin Woodward, Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy

3^rd Jordan Price-Draper, Lee A. Tolbert Community Academy

4^th Spearman Charlie, Central Middle School  

5^th Roneisha Wyle, Arrowhead Middle School

DEBATE-Kansas City is a non-profit Urban Debate League supporting students, teachers and debate programs in urban Kansas City Kansas and Missouri middle schools and high schools. Additional information about the organization may be obtained from Gabe Cook at cookgabe@umkc.edu.