Chase/Gilly and Payten/Lucy are Mid-America Champions! 🔥🏆
BF walked over LiPe in quarters and won their sems debate, while LaPa won both quarters and sems to close out MAC finals!
They also snagged the top three speaker awards!
🥉Gilly Falin
🥈Lucy Pace
🥇Chase Blaser
KU also closed out Open finals in the SECOND tournament win of the season! Blaser/Pace and June/Boyle each defeat USC to close out the Missouri State tournament! 🏆🔥
There were also some speaker awards in Open:
10th Harris
7th Lucy
4th Chase
#RockChalk 💙❤️
Blaser/Pace and June/Boyle are both debating in semifinals of Mo State! BP negates against USC while JB affirms also against USC. 🔥
Chaudhry/Falin also advances to elimination debates but dropped on a 2-1 in octos.
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All three JV teams and three of the six KU teams in open advance to elims tomorrow morning!
In JV, BaPe (6-0), FV (5-1), and LW (5-1) all bye through quarters! 🔥
In Open, BlPa (4-2), CF (3-3), and JB (5-1) advance to octos! LL also ends 3-3 and just misses on speaks. ❤️
We have nine teams competing at Missouri State this weekend and some of them have already notched the first win of their collegiate careers!
Bauman/Persson
Blaser/Pace
Boyle/June
Chaudhry/Falin
Fordyce/Verma
Foust/Sharman
LaPoint/Lemaster
Linde/Weber
Smith/Terreros
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Five KU teams break to elimination rounds at Northwestern!
Larson/Schultz advance as the top seed! 🔥
Williams/Willingham (7-1), Hato/Persinger (6-2), Ain/Ulven (5-3), and Brown/Walawender (5-3) will all join them in the doubles tomorrow morning.
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Congrats to Sophie Leonard/Lucy Pace on their National Championship in Policy Debate at the NCFL Grand National Championships! And to other SME competitors who had many top finishes! A special congrats to Mr. Witt for leading this team to a School of Excellence award in debate!
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS in policy debate!!! Sophie Leonard and Lucy Pace won the final round on a 5-0! They had a great round against @smsdebate! SME also won a school of excellence award in debate. I’m so proud of these two and this driven, talented group of kids! @SMEastLancers
SME Forensics took home 2nd in sweeps at the KSHSAA 6A State Speech Championship yesterday at Olathe Northwest! So proud of this talented and dedicated group! Of our 16 entries, we had 13 semifinalists and 9 finalists! Full results to come…
Huge congrats to Sophie Leonard and Lucy Pace for competing at the Tournament of Champions in Lexington, KY this past weekend! This is arguably the most competitive, prestigious high school debate tournament and we are super proud of these two seniors!
Congrats to senior Lucy Pace for being awarded the KMBC scholar athlete award! 100 students across the metro were nominated and Lucy is one of 10 recipients, and the first cheerleader to ever receive the award!
Last call for this year's #OneDayOneKU! We are so thankful for everyone who has given to KU Debate, in this campaign or previously, and every cent goes back into the debaters, the team, and the community.
Give here: https://t.co/GUZeKquPs7
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