2022 Pre-Regionals Top Performers

As we approach Thanksgiving, we have compiled a list of top performers from the fall. Just like the last couple years, we are defining a top performer as someone who has taken at least two awards at top invites. We are defining a top invite as one where 25% or more of the field was made up of teams who competed at NCT in 2021. This means that the following invites qualify so far:  

GAMTI, Virginia (93.75%)
Tobacco Road, Duke (65.38%)
Mumbo Jumbo, Tufts (61.11%)
Happy Valley, Penn State (54.55%)
Soda City, South Carolina (50.00%)
Spartan Throwdown, Case Western (44.44%)
Classic City, Georgia (38.46%)
Cornshucker, Iowa (37.50%)
Black Squirrel, Haverford (31.25%)
Peach Bowl, Emory (30.77%)
Scarlet and Gray, Ohio State (29.17%)
Mock at the Rock, Northwestern (28.57%)
Colonial Classic, William and Mary (28.57%)
Red Cedar Classic, Michigan State (27.78%)
Capital City, Florida State (27.27%)
AAMTI, California Berkeley (25.00%)
Cowtown Classic, UC Davis (25.00%)


There are certainly many great competitors on teams not invited to these particular invitationals, and many who simply haven’t been recognized because they share a bench with other strong competitors. But we do think that these competitors deserve a shout out for prevailing against such tough competition.

We will add addenda after any future top tournament tab summaries are released.

Attorneys:
Abby Branham, Florida State (Capital 20P; 20D; ToRo 18D)
Anne Clevenger, Stevenson (Colonial 18D; BSI 18D)
Azam Janmohamed, Stanford (AAMTI 17D, 19P; Cowtown 18P)
Carlos Hernandez, Miami (Mock Rock 18D; Spartan 20D)
Charles Sophocleous, South Carolina (Mumbo 19P; 19D)
Dan Cohen, Penn State (ToRo 17D, Scarlet 18P, GAMTI 21D)
Elizabeth Baldwin, Rhodes (Classic City 17P; GAMTI 19P)
Elizabeth Grant, Stanford (Cowtown 18D, 18P; AAMTI 18D)
Emily Hinton, Florida State (Peach 18P; Soda 17D)
Holly Williams, Washington College (Cowtown 20D, 19P)
Jacob Patton, Michigan (Mock Rock 18P, Spartan 17D)
Jennah Hyppolite, UT Chattanooga (ToRo 18P, Scarlet 19P)
Julianna Kantner, Arkansas (Classic 19P; Peach 20D)
Justin Xu, Georgia (Capital 19P; ToRo 17P)
Kelsey McCafferty, Duquesne (Happy 19P; 20D; Scarlet 20D)
Kensington Cotter, Berkeley (AAMTI 20P; GAMTI 19D)
Michael Ragnone, Ohio State (Scarlet and Grey 18D; GAMTI 18P)
Nellie Sun, Duke (Scarlet and Grey 17P; GAMTI 22D)
Prateek Dullur, Case Western (Red Cedar 19P; Spartan 18P)
Rebecca Steinberg, Berkeley (AAMTI 17D; GAMTI 22D)
Riya Lakkaraju, Emory (Capital 17D, ToRo 18D)
Taylor Patton, UT Chattanooga (Capital 18D; Classic 18D)
Thomas Azari, UMBC (Tobacco Road 20D; GAMTI 23D)
Timothy Ko, Vanderbilt (Peach 18D, Scarlet 17D)

Witnesses:
Ace Cole, Rhodes (GAMTI 18P; 20D)
Alayna Payne, Arizona (Capital 19P; 17D)
Ava Baber, South Carolina (Colonial 18P; 16D)
Brendan Smith, Washington and Lee (Happy Valley 19D; Soda 16D)
Enya Eettickal, Case Western (Mock Rock 17P; Spartan 19P)
Hannah Perala, South Carolina (ToRo 17P, Peach 16D, Soda 16D)
Indiyah Mabry, Virginia (Tobacco Road 18D; GAMTI 18D)
Jack Gaul, Penn State (Happy Valley 16; GAMTI 23D
Jack Goembel, Washington College (Cowtown 20D, 17P)
Jayda Peets, Howard (Colonial 16P; BSI 19P)
Konrad Verbaarschott, Hillsdale (Cornshucker 17P, 16D)
Madeiline Bodiford, Florida State (Capital 16P; 18D)
Maria Kutischeva, UMBC (Tobacco Road 17D; GAMTI 19P)
Maya Jaffe, Georgia Tech (Classic 17D, Soda 19D)
Mikaayel Aasim, Emory (Capital 16D; ToRo 17D; Peach 16D; Soda 17D)
Natalie Murray (Mumbo 19D; GAMTI 20D)
Ronan Leudet, Georgia (Peach 16P, 16D)
Tyonna Byers, Georgia (Peach 18P, Scarlet 18D)

Double Threats:
Alex Brown, Washington St. Louis (Mock Rock 17D Atty, 17P Wit)
Alex Wilkerson, Washington and Lee (Colonial 19D Atty; HV 16P Wit; Soda 18D Atty)
Alexander Thompson, Tufts (Happy Valley 19D Atty; Soda 16P Wit; 16D Wit)
Ben Wallace, South Carolina (Classic 20D Atty; Mumbo 16D Wit; BSI 18P Atty; 20D Atty; Peach 18P Atty)
Catherine Lammersen, Miami (Mock Rock 17D Wit; Cornshucker 18P Atty)
Celeste Bobro, American (Colonial 18P Atty; 18D Wit)
Colin Solomon, Michigan State (Red Cedar 20P Atty; Cornshucker 18D Atty, 17P Wit)
Daniel MacDonald, Georgia (Capital City 19D Atty; 16P Wit)
Emma Roder, Illinois (Scarlet 18D Wit; Mock 19P Atty)
Everett Parker-Noblitt, Yale (HV 18P Atty; BSI 17D Wit)
Fatima Lawan, Tufts (Mumbo 20P Atty; Soda 17D Wit)
Fernando Yzquierdo, Florida State (Capital 18D Atty; 18P Wit)
Grace Dodd, Yale (HV 16 Atty; Mumbo 19D Wit)
Kendall Nowlan, Minnesota (ToRo 18D Wit; Cornshucker 17P Atty, 17D Wit)
Michael Wilson, Michigan (Spartan 20P Atty; 18D Wit)
Michelle Stanek, Georgia Tech (Peach 20D Atty; ToRo 17P Wit)
Nicholas Cosmo, Case Western (Cedar 18P Wit, 18D Atty; Spartan 18D Atty; Mock Rock 17D Atty)
Sarah Rosen, Washington St. Louis (Mumbo 17D Wit; Cornshucker 17P Atty)
Varun Aggarwal, Georgia Tech (ToRo 17D Wit, 18P Atty)
Victoria Shahnazary, Michigan (Scarlet 18P Wit, 19D Atty)
Will Hopkins, Northwestern (Mumbo 16D Atty; Spartan 17P Wit)
Zachary Stern, Washington St. Louis (Mumbo 18D Atty; Mock Rock 20D Atty, 20P Wit)


Teams with more than one top performer:
Florida State: 4
Georgia: 4
South Carolina: 4
Case Western: 3
Georgia Tech: 3
Michigan: 3
UMBC: 3
Washington St. Louis: 3
Berkeley: 2
Emory: 2
Miami: 2
Michigan: 2
Tufts: 2
Stanford: 2
UT Chattanooga: 2
Washington and Lee: 2
Washington College: 2
Yale: 2

One small fix. Kelsey McCafferty (Duquesne) actually received two awards at HVI at 19 and 20 ranks. The tab was updated recently to reflect that.

Spring Addendum

With the January season of Invites coming to a close, we have a bunch of updates to our top performers list. As a reminder, we are defining a Top Invite as one where 25% or more of the field was made up of teams who competed at NCT in 2021. The following are new qualifying tournaments:

Sundown Showdown, Arizona State (25.00%)
Yale Invitational, Yale (50.00%)
UCLAssic, UCLA (36.67%)
Ramblin Wreck, Georgia Tech (40.91%)
Windy City, Northwestern (83.33%)
Beach Party, UC Irvine (50.00%)
Great Chicago Fire, Chicago (85.00%)
Southern Showdown, South Carolina (50.00%)
Blue Jay, Johns Hopkins (28.57%)
Hoosier Hoedown, Indiana (29.17%)


First, we have some new awards for people that were already on our list as Top Performers in the invitational season. As a reminder, it takes two awards at a Top Invite to become a Top Performer.

Attorneys:
Anne Clevenger, Stevenson (Colonial 18D, BSI 18D, Yale 15D, Blue Jay 17D)
Azam Janmohamed, Stanford (AAMTI 17D, 19P; Cowtown 18P: GCF 17P)
Elizabeth Baldwin, Rhodes (Classic City 17P, GAMTI 19P, Windy 19P)
Elizabeth Grant, Stanford (Cowtown 18D, 18P; AAMTI 18D; GCF 17D, 16P)
Nellie Sun, Duke (Scarlet and Grey 17P, GAMTI 22D, Southern 17D)
Taylor Patton, UT Chattanooga (Capital 18D, Classic 18D, Ramblin 18D)
Thomas Azari, UMBC (Tobacco Road 20D; GAMTI 23D; Windy 20D; Southern 19P, 18D)

Witnesses:
Indiyah Mabry, Virginia (Tobacco Road 18D, GAMTI 18D, Windy 16D)
Madeiline Bodiford, Florida State (Capital 18D, Classic 16P, Ramblin 17P)
Maria Kutischeva, UMBC (Tobacco Road 17D, GAMTI 19P, Windy 20D)
Natalie Murray, UMBC (Mumbo 19D, GAMTI 20D, Southern 18D)

Double Threats:
Ben Wallace, South Carolina (Classic 20D Atty; Mumbo 16D Wit; BSI 18P Atty, 20D Atty; Peach 18P Atty; Ramblin 18D Atty; Southern 16D Atty)
Emma Roder, Illinois (Scarlet 18D Wit, Mock 19P Atty, Hoosier 17P Atty)
Fatima Lawan, Tufts (Mumbo 20P Atty; Soda 17D Wit; Windy 18P Atty, 16D Wit)
Jennah Hyppolite, UT Chattanooga (ToRo 18P Atty; Scarlet 19P Atty; Ramblin 18P Atty, 20D Wit)
Kendall Nowlan, Minnesota (ToRo 18D Wit; Cornshucker 17P Atty, 17D Wit; Hoosier 16P Atty)
Prateek Dullur, Case Western (Red Cedar 19P Atty, Spartan 18P Atty, Hoosier 19P Wit)
Riya Lakkaraju, Emory (Capital 17D Atty; ToRo 18D Atty; Windy 16P Atty; Southern 20P Wit, 17D Atty)


And next, we have some brand new Top Performers:

Attorneys:
Abby Davis, Hillsdale (Cornshucker 18P, Hoosier 16P)
Abigail Roman-Ahlgrim, Northwestern (Beach 16D, Scarlet 18D)
Anna Mueller, Oregon (AAMTI 17P, UCLAssic 17P, Southern 17P)
Arabella Loera, Dayton (Mock Rock 17P; Hoosier 18D, 16P)
Bennett Demsky, Tufts (GAMTI 19.5D, Windy 16D)
Brian Anderson, UC Irvine (Beach 17P, Sundown 17P)
Charles Stock, Notre Dame (Red Cedar 17D, GCF 17P, Hoosier 19P)
Elisabet Lindskog, George Washington (Colonial 18P, Blue Jay 17D)
Harris Lichtenstein, Washington St. Louis (Mock Rock 17D, Hoosier 18P)
James Bray, South Carolina (Ramblin 17P; Southern 18P, 17D)
Kevin Loo, Vanderbilt (UCLAssic 20D, Hoosier 16P)
Lukas Baker, Northwood (Scarlet 18P, Southern 17P)
Natalie Penn, UCLA (Beach 17P, GAMTI 19D)
Sofie Adams, Washington St. Louis (Mock Rock 17P; Hoosier 17P, 16D)
Zoe Swenson, Case Western (Spartan 17D, Hoosier 18P)

Witnesses:
Alexander Lee, Brown (Hoosier 17P, 17D)
Audrey Mitchell, Stanford (AAMTI 18P, GCF 16D)
Chloe Porath, UC Davis (Beach 20D, GCF 18P)
Christian Ochoa, Vanderbilt (Scarlet 18P, UCLAssic 17P)
Ella Davis, Duke (Soda City 18P, Ramblin 16P)
Iris Zheng, Boston (15P GCF, 17P Yale)
Isabella Leak, Notre Dame (GCF 17P, Hoosier 17P)
Julian Mosley, Virginia (GAMTI 18D, Windy 19P)
Kaleb Amare, Duke (GAMTI 23D, Southern 19D)
Libby Radies, Minnesota (Cornshucker 17P, Hoosier 20D)
Lydia Dawson, Arizona State (Sundown 17D, 16P)
Max Fritsch, Chicago (Cornshucker 17P, GCF 15D)
Maya Jagdev, UC Irvine (Sundown 17D, 16P)
Qasim Bilal, George Washington (Yale 15D, Blue Jay 15D)
Sam Frank, Rhodes (Classic 16D, Windy 17P)
Zophia Pittman-Jones, Cincinnati (Mock Rock 18P, Ramblin 16D)

Double Threats:
Ali Alekri, Chicago (GCF 18D Wit, UCLAssic 17P Atty)
Brett Sachs, Tufts (Mumbo 20D Atty, Windy 17P Wit)
Camille Schaefer, UCLA (Mumbo 17P Atty, Sundown 16D Wit, Windy 16D Atty)
Celyn Jacobs, Arizona (Spartan 20P Atty, UCLAssic 17P Wit, Yale 18P Atty)
Eli Tannenwald, UCSB (Beach 16D Wit, GCF 19P Atty)
Emily Spears, UCLA (AAMTI 18D Wit, Beach 17P Atty)


Teams with more than one top performer:
South Carolina: 5
Washington St. Louis: 5
Case Western: 4
Florida State: 4
Georgia: 4
Tufts: 4
Chicago: 3
Duke: 3
Georgia Tech: 3
George Washington: 3
Michigan: 3
Rhodes: 3
Stanford: 3
UCLA: 3
UMBC: 3
Vanderbilt: 3
Arizona: 2
Berkeley: 2
Emory: 2
Hillsdale: 2
Miami: 2
Michigan: 2
Minnesota: 2
Northwestern: 2
Notre Dame: 2
Penn State: 2
Stevenson: 2
UC Irvine: 2
UT Chattanooga: 2
Virginia: 2
Washington and Lee: 2
Washington College: 2
Yale: 2


Bonus Stats: This year we have 104 Top Performers (40 Attorneys, 36 Witnesses, and 30 Double Threats). By our estimates, roughly 5,300 students will compete at Regionals this year. Meaning less than 2% of all competitors will arrive as Top Performers. Moreover, only 33 individuals have received 3 or more awards at Top Invites, compromising an exclusive club of only 0.5% of Regionals competitors.


Note: We are still waiting on the release of the tab summary for UC Berkeley’s tournament, AtypiCAL. This post will be updated to reflect those results once we have them. If you find any additional errors, please message us!