Washington Debate

Official twitter account for the Washington High School Debate Team.

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

We are incredibly proud of our teammate @ThatJackMan for placing 4th in the nation in Impromptu! Way to go! Couldn’t be prouder!

[Dakota News Now @dakotanews_now]

Breanna Wollman is the first person in her family to go to high school, but that’s not the only ‘first’ she’s accomplished so far. https://t.co/wmHRz2Ee0D

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

2/2 for winning a Rosella Blunk Senior Award for her contributions in Oral Interp as well! These two will be missed! #GoWarriors

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

1/2 Congrats to our very own Jack Hinrichs who was a semi-finalist in Lincoln Douglas debate and a finalist in Informative at State. He also won a Karl E. Mundt Senior Award for his contributions to the LD debate. In addition, we would like to congratulate Meara McIntyre

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

We have two more national qualifiers accompanying us to Phoenix! Savannah and Damine both qualified in Congress. Mohamud, and Jack were also finalists. The team’s hard work earned us the District Congress Sweepstakes Award for the second year! 🌵🏜️

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

@JeffersonDebate That’s a lot of cups

[Harrisburg Forensics @Harrisburg4N6]

Rushmore Quals! Claire Bockholt qualifying in IX, Aadil Ali in IX, and Kira Waldhalm in DX. The team of Frederickson and Ali qualifying in Public Forum, and our two LDers, Pan and Waldhalm, qualify in Lincoln Douglas. State up next!

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

We might not have read the right case, but we still secured our spots to Phoenix 🦎🌵 Maddie Johnson and Charley Stroh will represent Washington in Extemp at #nats2023

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

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[argusleader @argusleader]

“...You love it and you never leave,” said Angelica Mercado-Ford, who earned the top ranking from the National Speech & Debate Association. https://t.co/t1HhLOQNId

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

Happy Birthday, @SamMarkleyy !!

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

We love donation days! If anyone has any lightly used business casual/dress up clothes they don’t need, we would love to have it for our upcoming season! Thanks, Michael!

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

Today we had a proper Warrior senior sendoff! We wish Sam and Ryan so much luck and success! (Not present are Julia and Meshachlen, as they’re already enjoying the college life- we miss them already)!

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

On behalf of the Warrior Debate team, THANK YOU! Last night was such a fun success! Thanks to all who showed up and to those who supported our team from afar! 🥰 Now onto the new season!

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

Thank you everyone who came out to the Warrior Wildflower Fundraiser! Hope you all had as much fun as we did! 😊💐

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

Can’t wait for school to start, been missing @ThatJackMan’s daily grandpa jokes 🥲

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

That’s our Sam! So proud of him!

[argusleader @argusleader]

A recent graduate of Washington High School was among the top 20 student debaters at a recent nationwide debate competition. https://t.co/NW0lMXhlRr

[yesyes🇺🇦🇵🇸 @yesyesLD1]

just want to say to @SamMarkleyy is one of the best and most influential debaters in South Dakota and Nats. Debating against him felt like one of the best debates in my life.

[catherine @cdtherine]

huge congrats on top 20 to the most hard-working debater i know @SamMarkleyy !! incredible run from an incredible teammate

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

He took “stay drippy” too far

[Washington Debate @SFWdebate]

Coach here: I asked the debaters who are suffering from heat exhaustion to drink water and send me proof. This was Sam’s response 😤 (he is lucky he gets a pass for his record today):