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The Founder’s Cup is presented to the top debater from each organizational member of the Canadian Student Debating Federation at the National Seminar. It was established to recognize individual excellence and to celebrate the contributions of each province to the National Seminar.
YEAR | PROVINCE | RECIPIENT |
|---|---|---|
2024 | AB | Nenah Massawe |
BC | Lindsay Liu | |
MB | Sophia Perrotti | |
NB | Neve Elrain Ting | |
NL | Stella Hender | |
NS | Grace Qu | |
NT | Logan Doll | |
ON | Erica Valis | |
PE | Ella Chapman | |
QC – QSDA | Wolfgang Mondal | |
SK | Amelia Stang | |
2023 | AB | Rowena Cahill |
BC | Areebah Khalid | |
MB | Emily Mann | |
NB | Audrey Cho | |
NL | Muhammad Rafie | |
NS | Asia Urquhart | |
NT | Nina Slagter | |
ON | Anna Qian & Angela Liang | |
PE | Mark Seemann | |
SK | Shirin Soleimani | |
2022 | AB | Vanessa Chapman |
BC | Zohal Aryn-Ciyear | |
MB | Eleni Ginakes | |
NB | Shivani Shukla | |
NL | Tanish Bhatt | |
NS | Riley Boyd | |
NT | Teresa Martin | |
ON | Aubrie Chan | |
PE | *** Hurricane Fiona prevented PEI Students from Participating in the Debate Tournament. | |
QC – ADDEQ | Juliette Allard & Benjamin Daoust | |
QC – QSDA | Eva Fahmy | |
SK | Afrukhta Siddique | |
2021 | AB | Melanie Chapman |
BC | Zeanne Madda | |
MB | Anika Enns | |
NB | Richard Su | |
NL | Chloe Murray | |
NS | Abbie MacEachern | |
NT | Teresa Martin | |
ON | Sky Williams | |
PE | Katie Gaudet | |
QC – ADDEQ | David-Alexandre Bergeron | |
QC – QSDA | Adolfo de Motta Molina | |
SK | Simrah Iqbal & Stephen Daniels-White | |
2020 | AB | William Li |
BC | Ashley Wong | |
MB | Zelal Emre | |
NB | Lily van Beek | |
NL | Elizaveta Konstantinova | |
NS | Briley Hillyard | |
NT | Grayson Groenewegen | |
ON | Hao Ni | |
PE | Meghan Runge | |
QC – ADDEQ | Louanne Guay | |
QC – QSDA | Charles Seitz | |
SK | Sahasro Bhowmik & Nada Emara | |
2019 | AB | Ghuntas Auklakh |
BC | Cheryl Chen | |
MB | Shanaya McMillian | |
NB | Dhanishta Ambwani | |
NL | Anais Lewis | |
NS | Sandy Hiltz | |
NWT | Victoria Tweedie-Pitre | |
ON | Randy Chang | |
PEI | Brandon MacKinnon | |
QC – ADDEQ | Nathan Desjardins | |
SK | Janie Moyen | |
2018 | AB | Ben Plathan |
BC | Abnash Bassi | |
MB | Mollie Wheeler | |
NB | Abigail Jamieson | |
NL | Jessica Casey | |
NS | Nora McLennan | |
NWT | Reegan Jungkind | |
ON | Kathleena Henricus | |
PEI | Isabella Tatlock | |
QC – ADDEQ | Joey Provost | |
SK | Michael Orthner | |
2017 | AB | Camlio Andres Cortes |
BC | Cole Diepold | |
MB | Lise Conner | |
NB | Kennedy McGeachy | |
NL | Peter Noel | |
NS | Cecilia White | |
NWT | Tamara Chisholm | |
ON | Andrei Comlosan-Pop | |
PEI | Katylyn Bryenton | |
QC – ADDEQ | Mathis Malenfant | |
QC – QSDA | Max Schiller | |
SK | Camille Pelet | |
YK | Gunther Stewart | |
2016 | AB | Anna Mouland |
BC | Woojin Lim | |
MB | Ellie Thorlakson | |
NB | Nicholas Jeffrey | |
NL | Benjamin Pollard | |
NS | Skylah Van Wagooner | |
ON | Evan Kanter | |
QC – QSDA | Andrew Vandenbussche |
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