Nearly 200 debate team members from nine area high schools participated in the Jan. 21 tournament at Mt. Hope High School. 

Barrington students won three of the five top awards for novice individual speaker: Sam Turner (1), Juncheng Quan (2) and Madhri Yehiya (3). Barrington also won two of the five highest awards for novice teams: Sam Turner and Kevin Zhu (1), and Nina Polumbo and Abigail Gaetz (5).

Four of the five top awards for individual varsity speaker went to Barrington students Ian Mellen (1), Emly Sancomb (2), Eli Shea (3) and Henry Johnson (5). Barrington also won four of the top five awards for varsity teams: Eli Shea and Jack Troiano (1), Kate Turner and Mikaela Boone (2), Emily Sancomb and Lexi Anderson (4), and Jared Jageler and Maya Striuli (5).

Many other Barrington students also placed (scored in the top 25 percent of all debaters) in the tournament.

• Novice debaters, individual speaker awards: Andrew Gerstenblatt, Brian Donahue, Nina Polumbo, Sarah Quinlan, and Kevin Zhu

• Novice teams: Mark Sapolsky and Andrew Gerstenblatt, Ellie Wind and Sarah Quinlan, Brian Donahue and Jack Rayden

• Varsity debaters, individual speaker awards: Mikaela Boone, Emily Gorman, Kate Turner, Amanda Woodard, Maya Striuli, Gabrielle Ellicott, Taryn de Meillon, Jack Troiano, Jack Killilea, Jared Jageler, Nora Copple, and Lexi Anderson

• Varsity teams: Amanda Woodard and Katie Hoag; Henry Johnson and Jack Killilea; Chrsitian Odjakjian and Ian Mellen; and Emilio Cuebas and Taryn de Meillon