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Your 2022 National Speech and Debate Association National Champions in policy debate are Jiyoon Park and Zach Willingham!!
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Jake and Jimin win on a 3-2 decision. Washburn Rural has officially closed out finals of NSDA Nationals.
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Congrats to Grace Kessler, who has accepted the Robert W. Woodruff Debate Scholarship at Emory University. This scholarship gives her a full-ride at Emory, valued over $200,000.
We are so proud of her accomplishments at WaRu and can’t wait to see what she does in Atlanta!
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In addition to the national championship award, we also won the Unger Cup for being the best policy debate team over the course of all the national championships, and the Ted Belch Award for the policy debate coach of the year.
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This year’s National Debate Coaches Association National Champions are Jiyoon Park and Zach “Mad Dog” Willingham!
This is the first time a Kansas team has ever won the NDCA national tournament!!!!
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This year WaRu PW...
Won every invitational tournament they attended in Kansas
Went undefeated at the KSHSAA state tournament
Were national champions at NDCA, the first public school team to win it
Were national champions at NSDA, the largest academic competition in the world
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The NSDA awards ceremony just announced that Jiyoon and Austin officially finished in 3rd place at NSDA nationals in policy debate! Congrats to them on an excellent week of debating!
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Congrats to WaRu coach Cindy Burgett, who was inducted into the NSDA Hall of Fame this weekend as well!
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Tomorrow marks the end of 6 straight years the Park brothers have competed at the NSDA national tournament in policy debate. Combined they’ve competed in 79 policy rounds at NSDA & finished in the top 6 four times. Here’s to hoping we can see them debate together next year at KU!
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Congratulations to Jake Berry, Grace Kessler, Jimin Park and Raina Peter, who are this year’s
@KSHSAA
6A State Champions in 4-Speaker Debate!
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Our great tournament run ends on a split 3-2 decision in semifinals. Congrats to Austin and Jiyoon on an amazing run at NSDA.
Special shout out to Austin for his hard work and preparation for the final tournament of his senior year. We are so proud of how he debated!
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Congrats to these two for an amazing debate career at Washburn Rural! Two time state champions, four time national qualifiers, two top 6 finishes at NSDA. More importantly, great role models, supportive teammates, and incredible friends. Couldn’t be more proud of their career.
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Special shoutout to Grace Kessler/Raina Peter for winning their third consecutive KSHSAA 6A State Championship, a feat unmatched by any Kansas debaters in recent memory (perhaps ever).
To top it off, they won an all-classification Sunflower Novice State Championship as frosh
🐐
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Grace and Raina win on a 5-0 decision!! It is now guaranteed that Washburn Rural will have at least one team in finals at NSDA Nationals.
Congrats to
@bvnorthdebate
on a great season!
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Grace and Raina win the finals of Dowling on a 3-0!! Congrats to them on back to back Paradigm championships!
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The great Cindy Burgett was also honored with the Distinguished Service Award for her years of hard work supporting both Kansas debate & the Debate Coaches Invitational. We are truly lucky to have her as a leader of our program & a mentor in our lives. Here she is with a new hat!
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In round 14, Zach Willingham and Jiyoon Park won on a 3-2 decision and they will advance to the final round!!
In finals, we will debate Bellarmine IG the third time this tournament. The final round will be held tomorrow afternoon. Full details tomorrow!
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In 4-speaker, Petre Dimitriu, Grace Kessler, Raina Peter and Emma Schroeder finished the tournament with a 13-1 record and won the 6A State Championship!
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Both Berry/Park and Kessler/Peter won their 11th debate of the tournament. They will both be debating on Thursday of NSDA. We are officially the final two undefeated teams at the tournament!!!
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Congratulations to Sonya Doubledee, Donna Jalosjos, Jiyoon Park and Zach Willingham for being this year’s
@KSHSAA
6A 4 Speaker State Debate Champions!!!!
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Congrats to Grace Kessler, the 5th place speaker at this year’s Tournament of Champions!
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Congrats to WaRu senior Jake (Jack) Berry, who was named the 6th individual speaker, out of about 350, at NSDA Nationals!
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Washburn Rural is the KSHSAA 6A state debate champions! Congrats to Sonya Doubledee, Donna Jalosjos, Jiyoon Park and Zach “Mad Dog” Willingham!!
This is their second straight state championship, and WaRu’s 6th in a row!
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Austin and Jiyoon win their round 14 debate on a 2-1 decision over a great Peninsula team. We will be debating again tomorrow morning for a spot in the finals of NSDA nationals.
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For the third year in a row, Washburn Rural was named a Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, an award given to the top 20 debate schools in the nation! Over 1000 schools attended the tournament this year. We look forward to trying to extend the streak next year!
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Laura and James lose a tough debate. Please join us in congratulating them on a phenomenal nationals run and an even more impressive career!
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Jake and Jimin win Valley on a 3-0 decision! Congrats on a great tournament to Marquette! We are very excited for a great weekend to kick off the year! Next weekend we’ll be at BVSW and Mill Valley.
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Zach Willingham and Jiyoon Park are the 2021 DCI champions!!
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For the first time ever, WaRu debate traveled to Nashville for the Montgomery Bell Academy tournament. At the end of prelims, Raina/Grace are the lone undefeated (6-0). They will begin elims tomorrow as the top seed and receive another TOC bid! Pairings and awards in the AM.
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Grace and Raina win finals on a 2-1! Congrats to
@GBSDebate
on a great tournament. It was a good weekend to be a Jr. Blue.
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Raina and Grace won another debate on a 3-0 in finals against
@Smedb84n6
! The girls picked up all 18 of their ballots this weekend!!
Congrats to SME on a great weekend and getting their first bid of the year.
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Unfortunately, being the last two undefeated teams means that we have to debate each other this round.
The good news is that we are done early tonight & tomorrow we will start with 2 of the top 7 teams, including the last undefeated team at the tournament!
Check back in the am.
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A partial accounting of hardware earned this week at NSDA nationals: Left side - School of Excellence award & the school championship trophy. Right side - 2 of 4 championship trophies. A 7th diamond plaque for Steven Davis, HOF for Burgett, Belch coaching award and the Unger Cup.
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Austin and Jiyoon win round 13 on a 3-0 decision!! They are officially in the top 6 at NSDA.
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Both teams win round 10. Washburn Rural has two of the final four undefeated teams in policy debate at nationals! Stay tuned for round 11 pairings!
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Grace and Raina lose a 3-0 decision to a great team from Peninsula. Congrats to them on a great tournament, and an amazing sophomore year!
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This year WaRu DJ…
Went undefeated at KSHSAA 6A state
Finished 5th at NSDA, the largest academic competition in the world
Received a Woodruff Scholarship to Emory, valued around $300,000
Received admission to the Wharton School at UPenn, a top business school in the US
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At the Glenbrooks Round Robin, Raina and Grace had quite the showing! Raina ended as the 4th speaker and Grace was the 2nd individual speaker! They finished with a 5-1 record and took 2nd place! A huge accomplishment at a prestigious tournament.
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This year’s KSHSAA 6A State Champions in 4-Speaker debate are Kavi Chidambaranathan, Evander Davis, Karissa Kromminga and Aditi Nimishakavi!
They finished with a 14-2 record and 39 total ballots!
This is our 7th straight state championship in 4-Speaker.
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Congrats to Karissa Kromminga and Lauren Reed, the 2 Speaker state debate champions!!!
This is only the second time in 6A history that someone has united the 2 speaker and 4 speaker crowns.
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Also, a huge congratulations to Grace Kessler, Harun Khan, Jimin Park, and Raina Peter for going 15-1 and winning the 6A 4-Speaker State Championship!
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Our co-champions will debate beginning around 12:30. You can find the live stream here
It should be on livestream 3.
No decision will be rendered in the debate, but we want to celebrate our co-champions, so tune in to enjoy the results of their hard work!
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2017 Novice state champions!!! Grace Kessler and Raina Peter everybody!
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More NDCA news: we had 4 top 25 speakers in their respective division:
Novice
Aditi Nimishakavi 11th
Kavi Chidambaranathan 16th
Open
Jiyoon Park 6th
Mad Dog Willingham 23rd
Washburn Rural is only the 2nd public school, and the only non-magnet public school, to ever win NDCA.
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James and Laura win on a 2-1 decision! They will be accepting awards as among the top 6 teams in the nation on Friday night. Woohoo!
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Congrats to Jiyoon Park and Mad Dog Willingham for winning the 2022 Debate Coaches’ Invitational!
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Two Kansas schools receive School of Excellence Awards in debate! We are so proud of the Junior Blues and the work they did to put us on this list. Congrats to our friends at BVSW as well and good luck to them this morning in the final round of policy debate!
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Grace and Raina win the Colleyville tournament on a 2-1 decision over Coppell! Congrats to them on another great tournament.
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Three Waru teams qualify for nationals in debate! Congrats Jr Blues
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This is the 4th consecutive year we have had a team (or more) finish in the top 6 at NSDA nationals and the third consecutive NSDA where a Park brother has been top 6
@jimin_stagram
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Both teams lose in their octafinals debate, but we couldn’t be more proud of their weekend. Congrats to both on a great run!
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Unfortunately, Raina and Grace lost on another 2-1 decision to MBA in finals. That being said, it was a great weekend for the girls and WaRu debate!
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In the last 7 years, WaRu Debate has had 9 teams finish in the top 6 at NSDA nationals, receiving trophies on stage
2016: Nicolae/Wu 5th
2018: Kessler/Peter 6th
2019: Berry/Park, KP co-champs
2020: Park/Rea 3rd
2021: Park/Willingham 4th
Doubledee/Jalosjos 6th
2022: PW 1st, DJ 5th
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Austin and Jiyoon keep up the winning streak! They win their round 10 debate on a 2-1 decision. They will enter tomorrow as the last undefeated team from Kansas.
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At the end of prelims of the TOC, both Washburn Rural teams end with a winning record!
Berry/Park: 4-3
Kessler/Peter: 5-2
Grace and Raina will debate in elimination rounds. They are only the second team from KS to ever qualify for elims and the first from Washburn Rural!
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Jake/Jimin win their debate on a 3-0 decision!
The good news: both teams will be in quarterfinals tomorrow.
The bad news: it will be against each other
The best news: the quarterfinals of this tournament is a TOC bid round, so both teams will receive their first bid to the TOC!
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Unfortunately, Raina & Grace lost on a 2-1 decision in quarters. Congrats to them on a great tournament!
They will resume debate tomorrow as one of only seven teams invited to the prestigious Glenbrooks Round Robin. This is WaRu’s first invite to the tournament in school history
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Grace and Raina are affirmative against MBA in finals. This is the first time Washburn Rural has ever been in finals of an octafinal bid TOC tournament, and (as far as I can tell) the first time a Kansas team has ever made finals of one.
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Congrats to Grace and Raina on your 6th place finish and auto-qualification for next year!
CX: Quarterfinalists in 6th place
Grace Kessler and Raina Peter
from Washburn Rural HS
in Kansas
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Congrats to Jake Berry/Jimin Park & Grace Kessler/Raina Peter for appearing on the monthly coaches poll of the top 25 teams nationally! They are the only teams from Kansas, and this is the first time two Kansas teams from the same school have appeared.
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After the final round, we found out that we had two of the top 6 speakers in the nation at this years NSDA policy tournament!
Jiyoon Park - 6th
Sonya Doubledee - 5th
The NSDA livestream (
#2
) will begin soon. Our final round policy decision will be about halfway through awards!
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Happy Holidays from WaRu Debate’s trip to Minneapolis this weekend!
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Congrats to Jiyoon Park and Zach Willingham, who won the KCKCC tournament on a 2-1 decision!
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Jake and Jimin beat a great team from Peninsula on a 2-1 decision. They are still undefeated and are guaranteed to be in round 15.
Washburn Rural has 2 of the 4 remaining teams at nationals. We will debate
@bvnorthdebate
and Jenks in semifinals.
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All three Washburn Rural decisions in round 11 were 2-1 decisions.
Khan/Park lost to Doughtery Valley.
The other two both won & will be in the top 14 teams! That means they will receive awards on the main stage on Friday. Also, Kessler/Peter have auto-qualified for next year!
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Jake and Jimin win their semifinal debate on a 2-1 decision!! They have officially secured their second bid to the Tournament of Champions in Lexington, KY this May! Congrats to Berry/Park. Information about finals coming shortly.
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Congrats to the qualifiers from the Flint Hills! Peter/Robertson take 1st, Eitutis/Emler 2nd, Park/Khan 3rd!
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Raina and Grace beat a great team from Montgomery Bell Academy on a 2-1. They are now debating in quarterfinals of the one of the largest invitational tournaments in the country.
We are negative against Northside College Prep (IL).
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Washburn Rural finished our 4-speaker regional undefeated (10-0) and qualifies for state in January!
We will be back in action in a couple of weeks after a holiday break!
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Congrats to our 4-speaker State champions- Robertson/Peter and Emler/Eitutis. They have some very proud coaches!
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In round 12 PW lost but DJ won and both teams will advance to the final 5 teams tomorrow morning! This guarantees that we will have 2 teams at the awards ceremony on Friday night!
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And last, but certainly not least, the team of Raina Peter and Grace Kessler won the finals on a 3-0 decision! Congrats to them and to
@BVSWDebate
on a great tournament.
Washburn Rural also won the first ever team sweepstakes award at the Kansas Championship Series.
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At Hutchinson, Jiyoon Park and Austin Rea won the DCI division on a 3-0 decision over
@LHS_DB8_4N6
. Congrats to them on a great tournament and to Jiyoon and Austin for being tournament champs!
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These four debaters have received the first TOC bids for Washburn Rural since 2008-2009. What a weekend! Berry/Park, as the 4 seed, will debate tomorrow morning in the tournament’s semifinal.
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At Blue Valley Southwest, WaRu has two teams in elims and also won two speaker awards.
Grace Kessler/Raina Peter went 6-0 in prelims and are the 1st seed and lone undefeated.
Petre Dimitriu/Emma Schroeder went 5-1.
Grace was 2nd speaker & Raina was the top individual debater!
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Here is a picture of our proud quarter finalists from Iowa City West! Photo cred to
@TheHotstepper54
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There will be 23 teams remaining in round 11. Three of those teams represent Washburn Rural High School. We are the only remaining school with 3 teams in the field.
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These two fine young people were the 5th place team at NSDA Nationals. Congrats on a fantastic debate career!
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WaRu has another great showing at the
@FHKSNSDA
tournament, taking home all 3 qualifiers. Congrats to Jake Berry/Jimin Park, Petre Dimitriu/Harun Khan and Austin Rea/Emma Schroeder for qualifying to compete in Dallas! Add Kessler/Peter and we have 4 qualifiers for the first time!
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Grace and Raina win on a 3-0 decision. Congrats to them on earning their second bid to the Tournament of Champions! We now have two teams qualified to compete in Lexington!
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Jake and Jimin win the semifinals of Valley on a 3-0 decision. We will be debating Marquette (WI) in finals.
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Laura Nicolae and James Wu have been announced as 2 of the top 14 individual speakers in the country! Stay tuned Friday for final placings
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Unfortunately, both our teams lost in round 10. But we did finish with 2 in the top 25!
Congrats to Kavi/Aditi on a phenomenal sophomore season. Tune in next fall to more from them!!
Huge congrats to Evander and Karissa on a great career!! State champions and top 25 at NSDA!!!
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Raina and Grace received a bye until tomorrow morning. They will compete among the top 16 teams in the nation tomorrow morning!
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Raina and Grace won their quarterfinals round against Iowa City on a 2-1 decision! Their semifinal opponent, Kent Denver, has to forfeit the round due to travel plans, so we will be debating later today in the finals of Dowling!
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In policy at Dowling, Grace & Raina went 6-0 & finished prelims as the top seed! They also both won speaker awards & are currently debating in octafinals.
Raina Peter - 🥈Speaker
Grace Kessler - 🥇Speaker
They are debating Sioux Falls Roosevelt (SD) in Octas for a TOC bid!
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Round 12, Kessler/Peter win their debate on a 3-0 decision. They’ll be debating tomorrow morning.
Brenda and Jake lose their debate on a 2-1 decision. Congrats to them on a phenomenal season, and we couldn’t be more proud of Brenda for her finish as a debater! Go Jr. Blues!
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At the
@FHKSNSDA
qualifier WaRu secured all 3 spots at NSDA nationals this summer in Albuquerque!
Austin Rea/Jiyoon Park, Petre Dimitriu/Emma Schroeder & Sonya Doubledee/Donna Jalosjos will join auto qualifiers Grace Kessler/Raina Peter at nats.
Pic on Monday when all 8 rejoin
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Zach and Jiyoon win their semifinal debate on a 2-1 decision and will debate in the finals of the NDCA national tournament!!!
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The Jr. Blues finished 8-0 and clinched a regional championship today! Congrats to Berry/Park and Kessler/Peter who will advance to 4-speaker state in January.
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The
@FHKSNSDA
policy qualifier was this weekend, and we just finished the runoff round to determine qualifiers.
Washburn Rural qualified all three teams from our district! Congrats to Sonya Doubledee/Donna Jalosjos, Jiyoon Park/Zach Willingham and Alivia Cook/Nico Navarro.
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In semifinals, Kessler/Peter were aff against Wayzata and won on another 3-0 decision!
This tournament will end like it began, with WaRu KP debating
@GBSDebate
GS. We will be affirmative this time. Wish us luck!
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For the third time in four years, Washburn Rural has been named a debate school of excellence.
This team award goes to the top 20 debate schools in the nation across all four debate events!
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Huge congratulations to James Wu (6th speaker) & Laura Nicolae, this year's NSDA top individual debater! Laura's award is a first for WaRu.
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As *the* regular season concludes - Your Jr. Blues have earned the most number of DCI bids of any school in Kansas!
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As our regular season concludes -
Your Firebirds have earned the most number of DCI bids and have the most number of students qualified to the DCI tournament of any school in Kansas!:
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Congrats to Grace Kessler, who was the 7th individual speaker at NDCA!
Due to weather concerns, they have canceled elimination rounds tonight. Both teams will compete tomorrow morning in the top 32.
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James and Laura win on a 2-1 decision!!! They are now among the top 8-9 teams in the nation. They'll be debating again tomorrow morning
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Congratulations to Campbell Hight and Rebecca Reed, this year’s Sunflower Novice State Champions in the open novice division!!!
They won the division as freshman despite it being open to novices of any age!
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