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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 | |
QC – ADDEQ | Marc-Oliver Neveu | |
SK | Chan-Min Roh | |
2015 | AB | Hong Jun Kim |
BC | Adam Miller | |
MB | Gilon Lazar | |
NB | Roxane Fruytier | |
NL | Grace Turner | |
NS | Jack deGooyer | |
NWT | Tyler Bennett | |
ON | Phillip Cadieux | |
PEI | Michael Trotter | |
QC – QSDA | Emma Cassarotto | |
QC – ADDEQ | Simon-Oliver Savard | |
SK | Aden Tournier | |
2014 | AB | Rebecca Hicks |
BC | David Weaver | |
MB | Laia Shpeller | |
NB | Stephen Harvey | |
NL | Iam Browne | |
NS | Kenneth Carmichael | |
ON | Safiya Rajwani | |
QC | Anthony Bourdon | |
SK | Joel Morin | |
2013 | AB | Jocelyn Heaton |
BC | Alexander Beaumont | |
MB | Alexandra Degen | |
NB | Hamish Wright | |
NL | Neria Aylward | |
NS | Nathaniel Jenkins | |
NT | Hailey Verbonac | |
ON | Anthony Zhong | |
QC | Charlie Lanthier | |
SK | Rahul Parekh | |
2012 | AB | Conrad Lowe |
BC | Jyotish Khanna | |
MB | Benjamin Liu | |
NB | Aidan Ingalls | |
NS | Garret van de Weil | |
ON | Logan Ye | |
QC | Philip Dubrofsky | |
SK | Emily Jackson | |
2011 | AB | Jason Lamb |
BC | Anna Karina Kvasnikova | |
MB | Anthony Wightman | |
NB | Andrew Johnston | |
NL | Laura O’Neill | |
NS | Evan Taylor | |
NT | Greg Hanna | |
ON | Thomas Lordello | |
PEI | Emily Ross | |
QC | Cristopher Cayen-Cyr | |
SK | Kehan Fu | |
2009 | AB | Keenan MacNeal |
QC – ADDEQ | Cindy Tremblay | |
BC | Iqbal Kassam | |
MB | Katharyn Burczynski | |
NB | Dmitri Makrides | |
NS | Mathiew Blouin | |
NT | Desiree Boulanger-Rowe | |
ON | Karishma Manji | |
SK | Brandyn Rodgerson | |
2008 | AB | Aidan Paul |
QC – ADDEQ | Andree Anne Quimper | |
BC | Jonny Carson | |
MB | Ariana Myers | |
NB | Fenton Corey | |
NL | Nathan Whalen | |
NS | Allison Goshen | |
NT | Daniel Perron | |
ON | Elizabeth Watson | |
QSDA | Mark Wilson | |
SK | Kerollos Wanis | |
2007 (Fall) | AB | Sean Barron |
QC – ADDEQ | Adil Harroud | |
BC | Amy Higgins | |
MB | Jonathan Ripstein | |
NB | Bliss White | |
NL | Jonny Lomond | |
NS | Andrew Morrison | |
NU | Teal Krueger | |
ON | Sarah Balakrishnan | |
PEI | Terri McGarry | |
QSDA | Ariel Shapiro | |
SK | Shayleen Isaac | |
2007 (Spring) | AB | Katerina Genuis |
QC – ADDEQ | Marc Antoine Bernier | |
BC | Sean Husband | |
MB | Catherine Metrycki | |
NL | Kirsten Morry | |
NS | Deirdre Casey | |
NV | Emma Kreuger | |
ON | Alexandra Aliferis | |
QC – QSDA | David McLeod | |
SK | Caroline Ness | |
2006 | AB | Josh Sealey |
QC – ADDEQ | Rosita Taneva | |
BC | Shakir Rahim | |
BC | Wesley Hopkin | |
MB | Cara Katz | |
NB | Mathieu Nini | |
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