HWDebate

Harvard-Westlake School's nationally-competitive debate team competing in Middle School, Worlds, and Lincoln-Douglas Debate. Head Coach: Mike Bietz

We/Us/Them

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Congratulations to our Novice Lincoln-Douglas debaters who competed at their first opportunity.

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Special thanks to Lilly'26 and Esther '26 for coaching this weekend!

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@emorydebate Congrats! (Go Dylan!)

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Luke Rascoff '27 explains rebuttal strategies to novice debaters preparing for their first tournament this weekend.

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Julia Thomas '27 & Max Turetzky '25 help novices prepare for their first tournament.

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📸 Luke Rascoff

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"We all do better when we all do better!" - Sen. Paul Wellstone

📸 Vontrez White

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We're back at it tomorrow!

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Big weekend for the team! 🏆
World Schools Champions: Nilufer, Alex, Nate, Maya, Luke; Semifinalists: Jacklyn, Priscilla, Nathan, Ella, Amber
Lincoln-Douglas Semifinalist: Iris; Octafinalist: William; Double-Octafinalist: Andrew
Iris and William also earned bids to the TOC

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Big weekend for the team! 🏆
World Schools Champions: Nilufer, Alex, Nate, Maya, Luke; Semifinalists: Jacklyn, Priscilla, Nathan, Ella, Amber
Lincoln-Douglas Semifinalist: Iris; Octafinalist: William; Double-Octafinalist: Andrew
Iris and William also earned bids to the TOC

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This is such an inspiring conversation. Wonderful to see @MayorCarter and @MayorFrey supporting the incredible students, coaches and program staff from @MNUrbanDebate

What a great conversation.

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Practice rounds on rounds on rounds

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Our Worlds Debate team of Nilufer, Nate, Maya, and Luke win in the Octafinals of the Greenhill tournament.

The Quarterfinals continue very early tomorrow morning.

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Novice debater wearing the Meadows championship belt from the year she was born.

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

No teacher has made a greater impact on my life than Walch. As he faces death, he says the “struggle to fight it is misplaced. Why not live life the best you can so that when this thing we all have comes our way it’s not an enemy but a friend?” Watch.

[Gemma @History__Girls]

Listening to this with @RoryStewartUK on @BBCRadio4 with @theESU makes me miss running Debating at school! Such a valuable extra-curricular activity

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