Pulling the books off the shelf
Program record
West Bloomfield Middle School
W Bloomfield, MI
Competed as Abbott Middle School (2013–14 to 2021–22), and as Orchard Lake Middle School (2013–14). Those results are on this page and still read under the older name in the books themselves.
2
middle level titles
1
sweeps titles
8
event champions
2013–2026
seasons
State Championships
Middle level: 2 individual titles
Middle level
Individual state champions
- 2014
- ParekhExtemporaneous
- EvansOratory
This is what the archive holds, not necessarily the whole record — the high school State Finals for 2001–02 and 2002–03 and 2003–04 and 2004–05 and 2008–09 and 2009–10 and 2018–19 and 2019–20 are not in it yet, so a title from those seasons would not appear here.
Season by season
Sweeps place by tournament over time — higher is better.
2025–26
1 tournament · 1 event champion
- Winter at EastSat, Jan 31, 20261
- Kocher / Brightwell / Mestagh / Roth won Multiple Interpretation
2016–17
2 tournaments · best team finish 11th
2015–16
1 tournament · best team finish 27th
2014–15
2 tournaments · best team finish 7th
2013–14
4 tournaments · sweepstakes champion once · 7 event champions
- Middle Level Spring State TournamentSat, Apr 26, 2014 · Division 125th8th
- Parekh won Extemporaneous
- Evans won Oratory
- MSCI 2014 Middle Level InvitationalSat, Mar 22, 2014 · Division 132nd
- Jonathan Zhang won Impromptu
- Rishabh Parekh won Extemporaneous
- Blake Rubenstein won Storytelling
- MIFA Fall Middle Level IE Tournament 2013Sat, Dec 14, 2013 · Division 115th20th
- Rishabh Parekh won Extemporaneous
- Hartland Middle Level Speech & Debate InvitationalSat, Nov 23, 2013 · Falcon11st
- Rishabh Parekh won Extemporaneous
Assembled from official tabulations in the Michigan forensics archive. A program’s footprint grows as more historical results are imported.