Kubra Mohammadi [Shrewsbury High School '24]
"Kubra exemplifies the values of the NSDA because she shows how powerful one person’s voice can be. Kubra understands the value of her words more keenly than most, and she will never stop working to make sure that she can use her voice to lift up others. Kubra is an ideal Student of the Year because she embodies every goal we have for our students in Speech and Debate: she uses her voice to tell her story, and she tells her story to change the world."
-- Hannah Hopkins, Coach
Adele Fuzaylov [Shrewsbury High School '25]
"Watching Adele network with her peers locally and nationally has also been extremely impressive. She is able to connect with students despite differing backgrounds, skill sets, and even languages... Adele has utilized her language skills within her pieces in order to create more inclusive performances, all while raising awareness for several different social issues... She understands that students have the ability to change the world through Speech and Debate."
-- Gabriel Hopkins, Coach
Anthony Barrows [Boston Latin School '96]
"Anthony is professionally dedicated to make a better world through “expertise derived from lived experience to ensure that programs, policies and services work well for the people that rely on them.” Anthony serves as the Managing Partner & Founder, Center for Behavioral Design & Social Justice based in New York City, which is a “ cross-disciplinary organization working toward equitable outcomes through program and policy design.” ... Author of various published articles in such forums as the ‘Journal of Behavioral Public Administration and Health Affairs’ Anthony recently launched a Substack for the ‘Network of Intersectional Professionals” noting that lived experience is “irreplaceably valuable to any effort to improve systems and outcomes.”
-- Paul Wexler, New England District Committee
Isobel Maksoudian [Arlington High School]
Siri Ural [Shrewsbury High School]
Red Team
Lily Allen [Needham High School], Noah Byron-Smarra [Waring School] & Neil Jin [Boston Latin School]
Emilia Raviola [Milton Academy]
Pranav Krishnan [Shrewsbury High School]
Rhys Adams [Milton Academy] *2025 3RD PLACE
Roan Wilcox [Boston Latin School]
Suner Chopra [Shrewsbury High School]
Zachary Chen [Boston Latin School]
Talia Askenazi [Arlington High School] *2025 NATIONAL CHAMPION
Samuel Gonser [Catholic Memorial School]
Noah Arthur [Concord Carlisle High School] *2025 SEMI FINALIST
Spencer Caraman [Arlington High School] *2025 SEMI FINALIST
Brett Schneider [Brookline High School]
Anusha Naik [Walpole High School]
Anna Li [Acton-Boxborugh Regional High School]
Jack Bradner & Simon Picotte [Milton Academy]
HT Xue & Felicity Wong [Milton Academy]
Tony Liu & Alice Ma [Lexington High School]
Andrew Byron [Bancroft School]
Amna Siddiqui [Shrewsbury High School]
Adele Fuzaylov [Shrewsbury High School]
Christopher Boensel & Alexander Pappas [Catholic Memorial]
Owen Galvin & Brendan Jolley [Catholic Memorial]
Vivian McManus & Helen Taylor [Bancroft School]
Aditri Balaji [Acton-Boxborough Regional High School]
Samson Persson [Catholic Memorial School]
Abigail Rochelle [Milton Academy]
Sophia Roy [Chelmsford High School]
Shamini Biju [Shrewsbury High School]
Shayna Jain [Walpole High School]
Dhruv Satanur [Shrewsbury High School]
Anthony Babu [Concord Carlisle High School] *2025 NATIONAL CHAMPION
Advait Bhowmik [Shrewsbury High School]
Ishane Deshpande [Shrewsbury High School]
Simon Shoemaker [Needham High School]
Maria Udalova [Brookline High School]
Marcus Myers [Sharon High School]
Jada Boadu [Bancroft School]
Patrick Blomberg [Catholic Memorial School]
Samantha Berk [Milton Academy]
Vishnu Angiras [Shrewsbury High School]
Vasu Lakshmanan [Shrewsbury High School]
Blue Team
Sam Chen [Boston Latin School], Wilbur Moffit [Concord Carlisle High School], Sarah Mikkuzhi [Walpole High School], Annaka Schmults [Milton Academy] & Tinghan Wang [Acton-Boxborough Regional School]
White Team
Christa Belev [Natick High School], Jasper He [Newton-South High School], Amethyst Stenick [Arlington High School], Jeremy Tsung [Needham High School], & Felicity Zhang [Concord Carlisle High School]