Judge Philosophies
Aaron Treisman - CU-Boulder
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Aaryn Raymond - ACU
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Abby Reeves - MSU
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Ahleysha Lee - BPCC
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Aiden McQueary - UNT
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Alexander Carwheel - DBU
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Alexandria Ritchie - ACU
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Alexis Farino - DBU
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Alyssa Frost - MSU
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Amber Chi - UCSD
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Amy Sanchez - LEE
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Angie Quiroz Ordonez - ACU
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Anna La Pour - UU
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Arianna Deurloo - UCSD
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Arlene Canizalez - UARK
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Ashley Lorenzo - LTU
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Aubree Watkins (She/Her) - UARK
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Audrey Hong - UCSD
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Austin Keefe (He/Him) - UARK
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Austin Wilson - UU
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Autumn Miller - Harding
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Azmir Siddiqui (he/him) - USM
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Braeden Helmick - UU
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Brenna Betts - MSU
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Brett Trussell - SMU
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Brooklyn Malau - UCSD
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Caden Cockrell (he/him) - BPCC
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Caleb Stubbs - UU
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Carley Perry - NSU
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Caroline Jethmal - UCSD
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Chamiru Dewundaraliyanawaduge - UCSD
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Chaohua (Kevin) Wang - UCSD
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Charmi Gopu - UCF
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Chengyun Xiao - UCSD
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Chloe Benson - UU
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Christian Martinez - UCSD
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Christopher Jewett - CU-Boulder
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Cindy Chen - UCSD
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Cole Fairchild - MSU
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Colten Nichols (He/Him) - UARK
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Colton Thatcher - UU
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Colton Sumner - MSU
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Connor Peppard - UCSD
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Daisy Murfey - UU
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Daniel Soto - CU-Boulder
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Danielle Kofink - ACU
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Danielle Sanson - BPCC
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Darain Farve - DBU
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David Slayton - LTU
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Devesh Sarda - LSUS
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Diana Weilbacher * - ACU
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Diego Garcia Sandoval - UCSD
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Dylan Hall (He/Him) - UARK
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Dylan Branca - MSU
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Edric Chang - UCSD
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Elena Foster - LEE
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Eliana Snyder - UU
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Elijah Hawk - Harding
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Elinor Tiffany - UNT
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Elisabeth Kiu - UNT
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Elizabeth Orton - MSU
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Ella Grannon - UARK
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Ella Baker - UARK
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Ella Armstrong - DBU
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Elliot Galarneau - UCF
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Emma Powell (She/Her) - UARK
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Emma Jaramillo - MSU
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Erick Aguilar - ACU
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Erik Hovlid - Morton College
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Erin Yu - UCSD
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Esther Rolsma - UU
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George Utz - MSU
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Grace Wigington - UCF
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Grayson Daniels-Thompson - UARK
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Gretta Graves (she/her) - USM
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Haiven Potts - UU
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Hannah Stewart - ORU
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Hannah Barnett - ACU
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Hayden Jescheling - UARK
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Hayden Mittlestat - UARK
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Hays Romano - MSU
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Heidi Tyler - LSUS
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Iann Tobar - ORU
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Isabel Keith - MSU
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Isabella Agazzani - ORU
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Isabelle Leber - UCSD
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Ivan Luzcando - UARK
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Izzy Swafford - UARK
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Jace Godfrey (He/Him) - UARK
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Jaci Sabatini (They/Them) - UARK
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Jack Van Dyke (He/They) - UARK
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Jackie Garcia-Torres - ACU
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Jackson Csoma - ACU
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Jacob Neal - MSU
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Jacob Blair - UCSD
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Jacob Rosas - LEE
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Jacob Little - UU
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Jade Vasquez (She/Her) - UARK
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Jake Reed - MSU
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Jake Leckrone - UU
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James Wherry - CU-Boulder
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James Slayton - LTU
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Jane Anne Carroll - ACU
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Jason Edgar - Morton College
Make Logical, Rational Arguments and Speak with Conviction. Oh, and you can't spell debate with T.
Jaxon Hatfield - UARK
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Jaxon Buttram - DBU
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Jay Villanueva - Nevada
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Jeffrey Robinson - UARK
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Jess Tischmacher - Harding
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Jessi Boaz - ACU
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Jessica Tsai - UCSD
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Joachim Galil - UCSD
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Jocelyn Garcia Torres - ACU
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Joe Blasdel - McK
Section 1: General Information
I competed in parliamentary debate and individual events from 1996 to 2000 for McKendree University. After three years studying political science at Syracuse University, I returned to coach at McKendree (NPDA, LD, and IEs) and have been doing so ever since.
In a typical policy debate, I tend to evaluate arguments in a comparative advantage framework (rather than stock issues). I am unlikely to vote on inherency or purely defensive arguments.
On trichotomy, I tend to think the government has the right to run what type of case they want as long as they can defend that their interpretation is topical. While I donât see a lot of good fact/value debates, I am open to people choosing to do so. Iâm also okay with people turning fact or value resolutions into policy debates. For me, these sorts of arguments are always better handled as questions of topicality.
If there are new arguments in rebuttals, I will discount them, even if no point of order is raised. The rules permit you to raise POOs, but you should use them with discretion. If youâre calling multiple irrelevant POOs, I will probably not be pleased.
Iâm not a fan of making warrantless assertions in the LOC/MG and then explaining/warranting them in the MO/PMR. I tend to give the PMR a good deal of latitude in answering these ânewâ arguments and tend to protect the opposition from these ânewâ PMR arguments.
Section 2: Specific Inquiries
Speaker points (what is your typical speaker point range or average speaker points given).
Typically, my range of speaker points is 27-29, unless something extraordinary happens (good or bad).
How do you approach critically framed arguments? Can affirmatives run critical arguments? Can critical arguments be âcontradictoryâ? with other negative positions?
Iâm open to Ks but I probably have a higher threshold for voting for them than your average judge. I approach the K as a sort of ideological counterplan. As a result, itâs important to me that you have a clear, competitive, and solvent alternative. I think critical affirmatives are fine so long as they are topical. If they are not topical, itâs likely to be an uphill battle. As for whether Ks can contradict other arguments in the round, it depends on the context/nature of the K.
Performance based argumentsâ?¦
Same as above.
Topicality. What do you require to vote on topicality? Is in-round abuse necessary? Do you require competing interpretations?
Having a specific abuse story is important to winning topicality, but not always necessary. A specific abuse story does not necessarily mean linking out of a position thatâs run; it means identifying a particular argument that the affirmative excludes AND why that argument should be negative ground. I view topicality through a competing interpretations framework â Iâm not sure what a reasonable interpretation is. On topicality, I have an âaverageâ threshold. I donât vote on RVIs. On spec/non-T theory, I have a âhighâ threshold. Unless it is seriously mishandled, Iâm probably not going to vote on these types of arguments.
Counterplans -- PICs good or bad? Should opp identify the status of the counterplan? Perms -- textual competition ok? Functional competition?
All things being equal, I have tended to err negative in most CP theory debates (except for delay). I think CPs should be functionally competitive. Unless specified otherwise, I understand counterplans to be conditional. I donât have a particularly strong position on the legitimacy of conditionality. I think advantage CPs are smart and underutilized.
In the absence of debaters' clearly won arguments to the contrary, what is the order of evaluation that you will use in coming to a decision (e.g. do procedural issues like topicality precede kritiks which in turn precede cost-benefit analysis of advantages/disadvantages, or do you use some other ordering?)?
All things being equal, I evaluate procedural issues first. After that, I evaluate everything through a comparative advantage framework.
How do you weight arguments when they are not explicitly weighed by the debaters or when weighting claims are diametrically opposed? How do you compare abstract impacts (i.e. "dehumanization") against concrete impacts (i.e. "one million deaths")?
I tend to prefer concrete impacts over abstract impacts absent a reason to do otherwise. If there are competing stories comparing impacts (and there probably should be), I accept the more warranted story. I also have a tendency to focus more heavily on probability than magnitude.
Jonas Lansford (He/Him) - UARK
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Jonathan Conway - UCF
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Jordan Ellis - UARK
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Josh Gonzales - UNT
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Josh Gibbs - MSU
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Josh Kilpatrick - UCF
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Josh Mehaffey - ACU
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Joshua Tompkins - UARK
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Julienne Cuozzo - CF
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Justin Salahuddin - UCF
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Kalli Mchugh - UCSD
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Kamillyah Evans - LTU
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Kamren Cohen (Online) - UNT
I'm mainly a policy stock issues judge so to me, the team that can follow that the best/ most wins. I do listen to everything but I don't really like K's. If your K as an alt that is something other than reject the aff than I'll weigh it more than the typical reject the aff alt.
K affs: Personally as a general rule if your aff calls for direct action I'll like it way more than the the whole "we should reevaluate our relationship with X"
Tl;Dr: I will listen to everything however if your K/ K Aff calls for use to just think about something or re-evaluate our relationship with X I will weigh it a lot less against other things.
Karl Ashton - ORU
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Kat Chavez - UCSD
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Kate Rutherford - UU
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Katelyn Ah Puck - DBU
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Kayla Kemp - UU
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Kaylin Mulkey - CF
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Keith Milstead - SMU
Kelby Callicott - UARK
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Kellin King - UCSD
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Kendra Parker - MSU
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Kexin Wang - UCSD
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LSUS-Shanisha Ford (She/Her) - LSUS
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Landon Richter - BPCC
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Lauren Knudsen - UU
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Lauren Peaspanen - MSU
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Layeth Darzeidan - LSUS
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Le'Jeaha Falany - MSU
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Liam McNeely - DBU
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Lilly Leake - UARK
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Lilly Corbin - LEE
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Logan Gerhard - UCF
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Lorenzo Barrera - SHSU
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Lourdes Alaniz - UCSD
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Luke Thurmon (He/Him) - UARK
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Lydia Lim - UARK
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Lydia Stinnett - UU
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MSU-Eli Brown - MSU
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MSU-Heaven Favre - MSU
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MSU-Summer Ley - MSU
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Madeline McClatchey - LSUS
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Madison Collins - ORU
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Maisyn Price - UU
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Makenzie Barger - MSU
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Maria Borges - UARK
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Maritza Soto - ORU
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Mathew Nabors - DBU
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Matthew Cook (He/Him) - UARK
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Matthew Peck - KSU
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Max Slattery - UCSD
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Max Green (He/Him) - UARK
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Maycee Hufstedler - UU
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Meghan Pitman - UARK
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Melody Chen - UCSD
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Mia Chacon - UARK
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Micah Robinson - UCSD
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Michaela Nunn - MSU
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Miles Garcia - UNT
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Muizat Ayoola-Abioye - LTU
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Nancy Garcia - Harding
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Nathan Nuulimba - UU
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Nathan Lacefield - DBU
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Nghi Chau - UCF
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Nicco Stacey - UU
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Nicolas Hrechko - LSUS
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Nicolas Neal - MSU
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Noah Dancy - MSU
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Percy Blaich (He/Him) - UARK
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Portia Mobley - MSU
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Presley Jones (She/Her) - UARK
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Rachel Zhang - UCSD
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Rakshithaa Jaiganesh - UCSD
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Rebecca Annor - ORU
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Remi La Blue - UARK
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Rigo Ruiz - LEE
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Riley Lowe - UARK
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Robin Mathis - KSU
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Ruben Capetillo - LEE
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Ryan Seiter (He/Him) - UARK
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Ryan Li - UCSD
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Ryan Wagy - UU
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Sam Pirasteh - UCSD
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Samarth Ghodke - UCSD
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Sanchita B - UCF
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Sara Kim - UCSD
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Sasha Banaei - UCSD
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Savanna Burris - ORU
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Sean Murray - UCSD
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Sean Ye - MSU
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Seth Brake - UU
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Shelton Gibbs - ACU
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Silas Hofman - ORU
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Sophie Moody - UARK
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TJ Jones (he/him) - BPCC
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TSU-Tyler Cole - TxState
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Tara Rambarran - LEE
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Taylor Heysquierdo - LEE
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Tracy Perkins - UARK
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UNT-Jose Rodriguez - UNT
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Valay Kelkar - CU-Boulder
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Vanessa De La Paz - ACU
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Will Crews (He/Him) - UARK
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Wyatt Villines - UARK
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Yu Fu - UCSD
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Yu Qi - UCSD
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Yunteng Ma - UCSD
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Zeke Jackson (he/him) - USM
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Zhaun Miguel Guerrero - UCSD
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Zoe Leatherwood - UU
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adriana colon - LEE
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